Robert C. Lee (Bob)

Partner

Bob Lee represents clients in real estate private equity transactions, cross-border real estate investments, and real estate private equity funds and REIT formations. He is experienced in negotiating complex joint venture arrangements, preferred equity and debt investments, public and private real estate company mergers and acquisitions, and large portfolio transactions. He counsels clients in relation to troubled joint ventures, investors, and partners. He has formed funds and joint ventures to invest in properties, debt, real estate companies and platforms, and distressed assets in the U.S., U.K., Europe, and Asia, using a variety of U.S. and non-U.S. collective investment vehicles and tax structures. He also counsels fund sponsors in relation to ongoing fund operations.

Bob co-chairs Jones Day's Real Estate Practice worldwide and leads the Firm's Real Estate Funds Practice.

Clients with whom Bob regularly works include CB Richard Ellis Investors, Clairvue Capital Partners, Developers Diversified Realty, Highcross Group Limited, LaSalle Investment Management, Meyer Bergman, the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds, Orion Capital Managers, and The RLJ Companies and Resolution Property, plc.

Bob serves on the board of directors of After School Matters, a public/private partnership that provides out-of-school programming in the arts, communication, science, sports, and technology to Chicago teens in underserved communities.