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Robert A. FuerstPartner
Experience
• Advises clients in developing, acquiring, selling, leasing and financing of commercial and residential real estate, including hotels, shopping centers, office buildings, apartments, condominiums and mixed-use projects
• Substantial national experience in the acquisition, development, sale and financing of hotel properties, including negotiation of management agreements and franchise agreements with national chains
• Substantial national experience representing landlords and tenants in negotiating and drafting shopping center and office leases
• Represents buyers and sellers in the sale and acquisition of other businesses
• Particular experience in the acquisition, sale and financing of radio stations
Background
• Almost 30 years as a practicing attorney, including five years with a New York Stock Exchange-listed real estate investment trust and almost 25 years with three major Cleveland law firms before joining Meyers, Roman, Friedberg & Lewis
• Listed in “Best Lawyers in America”, Real Estate Law, 2006-2009 & 2011, and Ohio “Super Lawyers”, Real Estate Law, 2004-2009, 2011
• AV rated by Martindale Hubbell
• Frequent speaker on commercial leasing
• Wrote monthly column for Properties magazine on matters of real estate and general business law for 13 years
• Named an Ohio Super Lawyer for 2011
• Named to 2012 Cleveland's Best Lawyers
Memberships & Associations
• Past President of the Cleveland Chapter of the American Jewish Committee
• Board member of The First Tee of Cleveland
• Board member of The Montefiore Foundation
• Member of the Real Estate Sections of both the American Bar Association and the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
• Member of the International Council of Shopping Centers
Education
• Case Western Reserve University School of Law, J.D., 1979
• University of Colorado, B.S., 1975
