Robert Deal
Robert represents owners, buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants, developers, and contractors in commercial real estate and business transactions. His practice focuses on acquisitions, sales, exchanges, commercial leases, easements, dedications, subdivisions, and business contracts, providing personalized attention to each client’s needs.
Robert also has extensive experience in banking and finance law, advising regional banks, developers, builders, and property owners on secured lending, including acquisition, construction, refinance, SBA, mezzanine, and hard money loans. Robert understands the commercial realities of lending and development and works to structure transactions that balance cost, security, and client benefit.
By focusing on the details of every transaction, Robert helps ensure timely, cost-effective closings that protect client interests. He earned his J.D. from George Mason University School of Law and holds a B.A. in Journalism and a B.S. in Political Science from the Arizona State University Honors College.
- “Lender’s Counsel Approach to Troubled Loans” – Bankruptcy and Real Estate: The Current Issues (Virginia CLE, 2009)
- “Top 5 Most Problematic Parts of Real Estate Purchase and Sale Agreements” (NBI, Inc., 2017)
- Assisted client in disposition of $250 Million of commercial real estate in Northern Virginia
- Papered and negotiated contracts for real estate assemblages, including mezzanine financing, for Virginia projects in excess of $140 million
- Represented national and regional lenders and borrowers in acquisition, construction, term and revolving loan transactions of up to $80 million, secured by real estate, corporate assets, franchise licenses and other collateral, including all aspects of the loan, from drafting and negotiation of commitment letters and loan documents, through loan closing, post-closing analysis and lender compliance review
- Reviewed and drafted legal opinions for loan transactions
- Drafted and negotiated office, retail, warehouse and residential lease agreements for landlords and tenants; negotiated solutions to defaulting leases to aid tenants in recovering while preserving the asset stream for the landlord
- Virginia State Bar – Real Estate Section
- ICSC
- Virginia
