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  • Practice Areas
    Commercial Real Estate
  • Education
    J.D. University of North Carolina, 1982

    B.S University of Delaware, 1975

  • Professional Recognition
    AV Peer Review Rating by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell

    Best Lawyers in America, Real Estate Law

    Virginia’s “Legal Elite,” Virginia Business magazine

    Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business

    Selected by Super Lawyers magazine

    Virginia Association of Realtors® Convention: former featured speaker

    Virginia Law Foundation: author of two chapters on commercial leases Landlord/Tenant Law and Practice Handbook

  • Memberships
    International Council of Shopping Centers

    Virginia State Bar

    American Bar Association

    Norfolk Portsmouth Bar Association

    Hampton Roads Association for Commercial Real Estate
  • Leadership
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ROBERT L. DEWEY , Member / Managing Partner
Norfolk
Phone (757) 628-5580
Fax (757) 628-5566
rdewey@wilsav.com

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Rob represents developers, retailers, financial institutions and others in retail and office development projects, shopping center anchor tenant leasing, purchases and sales of commercial properties and financing transactions.

Relevant Experience

  • Represented Fortune 500 company in its acquisition of headquarters building in like-kind exchange that had a closing deadline of two weeks. Transaction included negotiation of long-term lease with Bank of America concluded within the same timeframe.

  • Represented elderly owner of 75 acres of prime commercial property fronting on U.S. Route 13 in its redevelopment, including negotiation of long-term ground leases and personal planning for disposition of multi-million dollar real estate holdings upon owner’s death.

  • Represents major national bank in $62,000,000 financing of the Town Center mixed use development in Virginia Beach.

  • Negotiated master settlement on behalf of minority partner of federal court litigation with prospective joint venturer and related eminent domain proceedings for the condemnation of minority partner’s real estate interests, all in connection with a public-private real estate development of a 100-acre retail site.

  • Negotiated on behalf of a family partnership as landlord a long-term subordinated ground lease for a 245-acre site leased to a private golf club and developed as a Fazio signature golf course.

  • Represents retail developers in the leasing and development of community shopping centers of 100,000-500,000 square feet, including anchor tenant leases with companies such as Target, Home Depot, Barnes & Noble, Stein Mart and Kroger, and anchor tenant sale and leasing transactions with Bank of America, Wachovia Bank, McDonald’s, Ruby Tuesday and Chick-fil-A.


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