Robert Brusco is known across the real estate industry for his outstanding deal-structuring skills and practical business perspective. Clients want him on their side not only for his strategic savvy but his strong industry relationships, which are the product of over 25 years of immersion in commercial real estate. Rob has a robust, comprehensive practice that represents major investment banks, lending institutions, private equity funds, developers, investors and operators in all types of commercial real estate matters such as acquisition, disposition, financing, joint venture and leasing transactions. A seasoned practitioner, he has negotiated, structured and closed several billion dollars’ worth of large-scale, complex real estate debt and equity transactions. His broad experience also includes loan participations, sales and syndications as well as real estate asset restructurings, workouts and recovery.

From 2004 to 2012, Rob held various business and legal roles at Lehman Brothers both prior and subsequent to its bankruptcy. Pre-bankruptcy, he was responsible for originating, structuring and closing mortgage, mezzanine and construction financing, equity investment and line of credit transactions in Lehman’s Global Real Estate Group. Post-bankruptcy, he served as a Managing Director at LAMCO LLC (a wholly owned subsidiary of Lehman created after its bankruptcy filing), where he led several teams responsible for the asset management, restructuring and workout of $3+ billion in real estate positions owned by the Lehman estate.

As evidenced below, Rob cuts a wide and important swath in the real estate industry, transactionally and geographically.

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Education
JD, Brooklyn Law School, 1992

BA, Lehigh University, 1987