Robert Lane

Background

About Robert Lane

Bob is nationally recognized in all aspects of commercial real estate development, acquisitions and financing, with over 40 years of experience representing a wide variety of companies, large and small, in diverse industries, as well as major real estate developers, syndicators and REITs. Bob's clients have included many Fortune 500 companies; national real estate companies; major health care institutions; not-for-profit organizations; large retail, hotel and restaurant chains; one of the world's leading telecommunications companies; numerous financial institutions; waste management companies; and a Congressionally chartered U.S. Government lending institution. Bob has guided Fortune 100 companies in developing major corporate facilities throughout the U.S, and has led specialized facilities development in the media, retail and petroleum industries. He continues to lecture and write extensively on such subjects as commercial leasing, zoning and land use, boundary law, real estate taxation, real estate development and the negotiation and structuring of international transactions. Bob has been named a "Leading US Attorney" by Chambers and Partners in the real estate category of its 2003, 2004 and 2005 Chambers USA, America's Leading Business Lawyers directory. He has been recognized as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer from 2004 through 2020 by being selected by his peers as among the top 5 percent of lawyers in the Commonwealth. Bob has been an elected Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL) since 1995. Bob also has been an active and visible leader in a broad variety of professional and civic organizations, including CoreNet, ICSC and the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, where Bob has been an Adjunct Professor from 2008 to 2018. Specialties: Government Incentives and Entitlements; Real Estate Acquisitions, Dispositions, Development and Financing; Transactional Strategy and Negotiations.