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Robyn Minter Smyers

Robyn is a partner in the Real Estate, Construction and Corporate Transactions & Securities practice groups, as well as a co-chair of the firm’s Site Selection practice. Robyn also is a member of Thompson Hine's Executive Committee. She is the immediate past partner in charge of the firm’s Cleveland office and a former chair of the firmwide Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiative. Robyn focuses her practice on helping companies find and develop new plants, headquarters and facilities. She also has significant experience with shopping center, urban redevelopment, multifamily housing, distribution center, hospitality and public-private partnership (P3) deals. Her forte is coordinating complex transactions, particularly multi-site, multi-state acquisitions and divestitures, ground-up developments and sale-leaseback deals. To all her engagements, Robyn brings a commitment to efficiency and predictability through value-based pricing and legal project management. · Thompson Hine LLP

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About

Robyn Minter Smyers is a partner at Thompson Hine LLP who focuses on helping companies find and develop new plants, headquarters, and facilities. She has significant experience in shopping center, urban redevelopment, multifamily housing, distribution center, hospitality, and public-private partnership (P3) deals, and specializes in coordinating complex multi-site, multi-state acquisitions and divestitures and sale-leaseback deals.

Practice areas

Real EstateConstructionCorporate Transactions & SecuritiesSite Selection

Office

Expertise

Real Estate DevelopmentSite SelectionConstructionCorporate TransactionsPublic-Private PartnershipsMultifamily HousingHospitalityDistribution Centers

Education

  • Yale University, J.D., 1997, Earl Warren/NAACP Legal Defense Fund Scholar; Schell Center for International Human Rights Fellow, 1995
  • Harvard University, B.A., 1991, cum laude