Bob Bickford chairs the firm’s Hospitality practice group.  Bob focuses his practice on transactions relating to different types of real estate assets throughout the United States, representing both domestic and foreign institutional investors and entrepreneurs.  With a particular focus on hospitality assets, Bob has negotiated, documented and closed transactions valued into the billions of dollars over the course of his career.  Bob focuses on the financial drivers of the deal and on what each of his clients wants to achieve.  Bob’s valuable perspective and veteran experience allow him to consistently deliver constructive and effectual advice to every transaction in which he is involved.

Bob consistently provides the right blend of legal skill and business acumen required to structure, negotiate and close complex and traditional structures for real estate financing and investing.  Because Bob has experienced both the pitfalls and opportunities that real estate market fluctuations create, he is able to navigate beyond obstacles and challenges that seem daunting to most.  Notably, Bob seeks to understand and incorporate each client’s tolerance level for risk into the deal at hand, while getting to and achieving consensus among transaction participants.

Highlights over the last year include the representation of the sellers of 787 Seventh Avenue ($1.95B); 1285 Avenue of the Americas ($1.65B); and the mortgage lenders to such properties as 1301 Avenue of the Americas ($850MM), 31 W. 52nd Street ($500MM) and 1 Seaport Plaza ($295MM).  In addition, Bob also closed the sale of the Key Center complex in Cleveland ($267.5MM) and is representing Nickerson family interests in signing a long-term net lease of the 1100 Avenue of the Americas building to a Brookfield/Swig Organization tenant entity.

Listed among The Best Lawyers in America^©, the Irish Legal 100, the International Who’s Who of Real Estate Lawyers and New York Super Lawyers, Bob has been a member of the Kelley Drye’s executive committee from 1992 to 2011 and 2013 to present, as well as chaired the firm’s Real Estate practice group from 1992 to 2014.

The Best Lawyers in America^© (Woodward/White, Inc.), Real Estate Law, 2010–2016.

Selected to be included in the Irish Legal 100, 2011–2016.

Selected as a Leading Attorney by the International Who’s Who of Real Estate Lawyers, 2016.

Listed in New York Super Lawyers, 2008–2013.

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