Rob’s clients value his keen understanding of their individual business needs and requirements as well as the intricacies of establishing and growing a business.
Overview
Rob regularly represents telecommunications clients with respect to their real estate, property management, land use and zoning, and commercial matters. Rob also serves as outside general counsel for several Kansas City-based companies, providing assistance on a range of matters such as acquisitions and sales, real estate transactions and commercial leasing, and general corporate matters. Rob is well known for his work with both large and small company clients to facilitate the growth, commercialization and development of clean energy technologies and projects. Rob counsels them on all types of general corporate and business matters including commercial contracts, joint development agreements, construction and procurement contracts, real estate, agreements and other day-to-day legal and business issues.
Experience
Rob is primary counsel for a telecommunications service provider with regard to its wireless communication facilities and network in the Midwest and Mountain areas.
Rob assisted in the formation of a joint venture involving the conveyance of production, transportation and pipeline assets valued at $650 million.
Rob has served for extended periods as on-site counsel for his client companies.
Rob represented a strategic investor in negotiation of a Master EPC Agreement and related commercial agreements for the development and operation of facilities to convert waste plastic to synthetic crude oil.
Rob has negotiated many procurement and sales agreements for an international chemical intermediates and specialty materials manufacturer, as well as an international producer and marketer of fertilizer products.
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Speaking Engagements
Recognitions
Recognitions
Graduate of the Centurions Leadership Training Program, a program dedicated to training the emerging business and civic leaders in Kansas City
Past recipient of the Kansas City Business Journal’s “Up & Comers Award”
Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for venture capital law
Professional & Civic Activities
Professional & Civic Activities
MoKan Wireless Association, Board of Directors, 2021-present
Spirit 2000 Gala Steering Committee
American Bar Association, Corporate Law Committee
Kansas Bar Association, Corporate Law Committee
The Missouri Bar, Corporate Law Committee
ALS Association Mid-America Chapter Board of Directors, 2010-present
Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP Policy Committee (2007-2012).
Practices & Industries
Admissions
- Missouri, 1989
- Kansas, 1990
Education
University of Kansas, J.D., 1989
University of Kansas, B.S., Business Administration, 1986
