Robert Barnes, who joined Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. in 1988, is senior counsel in the firm's Los Angeles office. He has a wide-ranging real estate transactional practice, with significant experience in:

• structuring and documenting acquisitions and dispositions of energy production and storage facilities;
• commercial and industrial development and affiliated financing and refinancing;
• foreclosures, workouts and loan modifications;
• retail, office and industrial leasing for landlords and tenants;
• sustainable development and building operations; and
• all aspects of complex purchase and sales of real property, including real estate-owned portfolios. 

Robert is LEED-certified (LEED-GA).

Robert's recent representative transactions include:

• Served as real estate counsel for the developer and landlord of a $495 million court building that was the first "social infrastructure" public-private partnership ("PPP") transaction in the United States and the first non-transportation PPP in California. This transaction was chosen by The Bond Buyer as its 2011 Deal of the Year and by Project Finance Magazine as the North American PPP Deal of the Year for 2010, and was recognized as a "highly commended" deal in the Financial Times' 2011 U.S. Innovative Lawyers Report
• Represented the tenant in the lease of an 800,000 square-foot distribution facility in San Bernardino County, California
• Represented a major furniture retailer in its acquisition of surplus big-box sites in various cities in Southern California, including Redondo Beach, Vista and Menifee, California
• Represented the ground lessee and subsequent purchaser of a 175,000-square foot warehouse facility in Chatsworth, California
• Served as the buyer's California real estate counsel for the equity purchase of a 150-megawatt wind power facility in Tehachapi, California, part of the first gigawatt-class wind power facility in the US
• Represented the seller as real estate counsel in the $100+ million sale of an investor-owned water company that provides water service to residential and commercial customers located in cities in the states of California and Montana
• Represented the seller as real estate counsel in the $56 million equity sale of two 50-megawatt natural gas-powered California power plants

• State Bar of California
• Los Angeles Bar Association; Real Property Section
• Planning Committee, Benjamin S. Crocker Symposium 2011 (Real Property Section Annual Law Symposium) 

• "AB1103 Requires Green Disclosure (and Green Due Diligence)," The California Real Estate Journal, February 16, 2010
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• Co-author, "GUEST WORDS: How to Revive the Muni Market: A Modest Proposal," The Bond Buyer, September 2009
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• "Notes for the Note Purchaser," California Real Estate Journal, July 6, 2009
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• "Five Things Commercial Lenders Should Consider Before Foreclosure," California Real Estate Journal, June 2, 2008
• "Bidders' Boom," Los Angeles Daily Journal, September 27, 2007
• Co-author, "Climate Change Calls for Construction Efficiency," Los Angeles Daily Journal, July 2, 2007
• "Insurance Policy Progress," Los Angeles Daily Journal, December 27, 2006
• "Recent Rule Makes Qualifying for Federal Protection Harder," DJC Law, December 14, 2006
• "Recent Rule Makes Qualifying for Federal Protection Harder," Los Angeles Daily Journal, December 14, 2005
• "Recent Rule Makes Qualifying for Federal Protection Harder," San Francisco Daily Journal, December 14, 2005

• Co-panelist with Daniele Horton - Thomas Properties Group Inc. and Mika Yagi - Gensler, "Insights into LEED and Green Building Design and Operations," Fulbright Web Seminar, June 14, 2011

1983 - J.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Law
1978 - A.B., magna cum laude, English Literature and Classics, Brown University

Robert was admitted to practice law in California in 1983.

• High-performance auto driving
• Vintage cars

• Wilshire Rotary Club, former Director and President
• Windsor Square Association, former Director