Avocats – United States

Robert Crea

Partner - Corporate and Finance Transactions U.S. Head of Fund Formation

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Robert Crewdson

Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig

Robert Curry

Bob is senior counsel in the firm's Real Estate practice group and former partner-in-charge of the Dayton office. He focuses his practice on commercial real estate transactions, office, industrial, shopping center and mixed-use development, public-private partnerships involving real estate, commercial leases, mortgage loan transactions, zoning and land use law, broker/agency law, condominiums and planned unit developments. Bob is a co-author of a leading treatise on Ohio real estate law and the former chair of the Real Property Section of the Ohio State Bar Association.

Thompson Hine LLP

Robert D. Drain

Of Counsel

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Robert D. Simon

Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig

Robert Daniel

Partner

Platt Richmond

Robert Darwell

Bob Darwell is the Head of Global Media and a senior partner in the Entertainment, Technology and Advertising practice in the firm's Century City office. In August 2024, the Beverly Hills Bar Association honored Darwell as Entertainment Lawyer of the Year and in January 2025, AMEC (Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel) awarded Sheppard's Entertainment practice as Counsel of the Year. 2024 proved to be another extraordinary year for Bob and his team. Bob's team worked on the acquisition and development of hundreds of motion picture and television projects. After representing Amazon in connection with its acquisition of MGM, Amazon's second-largest acquisition in history, Bob and his colleagues worked with their in-house counterparts on the integration of the revered MGM library into Amazon MGM Studios. On top of that, Bob also guided Amazon MGM Studios, Wondery, Twitch, Nickelodeon, Disney, Peacock and Meta in connection with numerous high-profile movie, television, podcast and AI projects.

Sheppard

Robert Dougherty

Partner

Holland & Knight

Robert Drobnak

Partner

Nixon Peabody LLP

Robert Dumbacher

Partner

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Robert Eberhardt

Rob Eberhardt is a debt finance partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Rob's practice focuses on the North American energy and infrastructure sector, in particular on renewable energy and energy transition matters. His clients include private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, strategics and lenders, and he advises on debt finance, tax equity, tax credit transfers, acquisitions and dispositions, project development and commodity hedging. He has significant experience with a wide range of transaction types involving onshore and offshore wind, solar, conventional power, storage, transmission, carbon capture and sequestration, hydrogen and other assets.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Robert Ellis

Robert Ellis is a litigation partner in Kirkland's Chicago office. His practice focuses principally on complex commercial disputes and class action matters. Rob has represented large corporate clients in a wide variety of complex litigation matters, including breach of contract, professional liability, non-compete and trade secret matters. Rob also has extensive experience defending complex consumer fraud and product liability class actions.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Robert Endicott

Partner - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Robert English

Partner. Bob's practice focuses on domestic and international trademark prosecution and enforcement matters. He has represented clients in the craft beer, apparel, musical instrument, software, advertising, beauty, art and entertainment industries. Bob has experience representing clients in connection with a variety of intellectual property-related transactional matters, including licensing, asset purchase and joint development agreements. Bob also practices before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and has litigated trademark, trade secret, and unfair competition matters.

Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, PC

Robert Ezell

Attorney

Balch & Bingham LLP

Robert Fernandez

Robert Fernandez advises clients on corporate and real estate transactions, with a particular focus on finance, acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, commercial leasing, and real estate development. Robert, a nationally recognized real estate lawyer, develops strategic legal and business solutions for a variety of institutional lenders, investors, developers, landlords, and tenants. His work encompasses a range of complex transactions involving all types of asset classes and property types, including hotels and resorts, offices, life science and medical research facilities, industrial facilities, shopping center developments, multifamily developments, and data centers. Robert regularly advises institutional lenders, including commercial banks and debt funds, as well as sophisticated owners and developers, in the negotiation of credit agreements and related security documents. His work spans the credit stack, including senior secured, mezzanine, and preferred equity financings. Robert also represents institutional real estate investors in acquisitions and dispositions of commercial real estate, as well as in real estate joint venture transactions throughout the United States. Additionally, he represents both landlords and tenants in commercial lease negotiations, with a focus on large anchor and headquarter leases. Robert plays a prominent role in various community and professional organizations. He currently serves as Chairman of the Downers Grove Economic Development Corporation, an agency that promotes economic development and tourism for the Village of Downers Grove in Illinois. He is also a Board Member of the Chicago Civic Federation, one of Chicago’s oldest civic leadership and government research organizations. Robert is also a fellow of both Leadership Greater Chicago, a civic leadership development organization, and the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. While studying at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Robert served as Note and Comment Editor for the Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business.

Latham & Watkins

Robert Finkel

Partner

WilmerHale

Robert Fisher

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Robert Flanagan

Mr. Flanagan is a partner in the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Department of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. He serves as lead counsel to many companies, both public and closely held, as well as tax-exempt organizations. He counsels these entities with regard to statutory and regulatory compliance matters, fiduciary governance and contract negotiations. He also advises companies regarding qualified and nonqualified retirement plans, health and welfare plans, as well as cash and equity-based incentive compensation programs.

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Robert Ford

Partner

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Robert Fore

Partner

Goodwin

Robert Fowler

Rob Fowler is an executive compensation partner in the Houston office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He has extensive experience in the negotiation and drafting of employment and consulting agreements, restrictive covenants, clawback arrangements, golden parachute arrangements and other executive compensation and incentive programs, including the various forms of equity compensation arrangements, and regularly advises clients on issues under Sections 409A and 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code. Rob also regularly advises clients regarding the executive compensation aspects of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and restructuring transactions and regarding the integration of plans and arrangements following a transaction. Rob has helped design and implement compensation and benefits arrangements for numerous master limited partnerships (MLPs). He also has broad experience in the design and implementation of employee benefit plans, including multiemployer plans and related tax-qualification requirements, reporting and disclosure matters, prohibited transaction issues and other fiduciary concerns. Additionally, Rob advises clients regarding employee stock ownership (ESOP) transactions, and has also been involved in several benefits litigation matters.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Robert Frances

Robert Frances is a partner in the San Diego office of Latham & Watkins. Robert has extensive experience in a broad range of transactional real estate and finance projects, including property acquisitions and dispositions, secured lending, construction financing, mergers and acquisitions, hotel, casino, and power plant development and financing, and other project finance transactions.

Latham & Watkins

Robert Frastai

Partner

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP