Robert H. Gidel, Jr.
Partner
Rob Gidel represents national and regional real estate developers, private and public real estate investment trusts (REITs), private equity firms and franchisees, as well as high net-worth individuals and their affiliated family offices on various business transactions. He also represents national and regional landlords and tenants as well as banking and lending institutions.
His practice involves:
- Negotiating complex real estate documents
- Assisting with the acquisition and disposition of office, retail, apartment and industrial buildings, shopping centers, hotels, data centers and mixed-use properties
- Representing national and regional tenants and landlords in the leasing of office and industrial buildings and mixed-use centers
- Securing land use and zoning entitlements including governmental approvals
- Advising on property rights, entitlements, exclusive covenants, deed restrictions and other title-related matters
- Counseling national and regional banks, credit unions and other financial institutions on real estate-related projects
His background in private equity provides clients a unique perspective on business risk, growth and planning. He also heads up Phelps' Tampa business team.
Experience
- Counsels the nation’s largest homebuilder in various acquisitions, joint ventures and development projects throughout Florida.
- Guides the nation’s largest build-to-rent focused real estate investment trust (REIT) on its acquisitions, dispositions and development-related matters on its projects throughout Florida.
- Advises one of the world’s largest companies in connection with the acquisition, development and leasing of large-scale data center projects.
- Represents a private equity fund on the acquisition, development and disposition of its single-family rental communities throughout the Southeast United States.
- Assists the largest mixed-use developer in Florida on leasing, development and financing transactions.