About Robert Chester
Robert Chester focuses his practice on litigating real estate matters related to landlord-tenant, commercial lease, and governance disputes.
Robert’s clients include cooperative and condominium boards as well as both commercial tenants and landlords. He has experience representing buyers, sellers, and investors in commercial real estate acquisition, sale, leasing, and finance transactions, including negotiating loan documents for acquisition, bridge, mezzanine, preferred equity, and construction lending.
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Experience
- Represented a joint venture partner in connection with a disputed exercise of a buy-out option and alleged mismanagement by the defendant managing member.
- Represented a cooperative shareholder in an action seeking reformation of a ground lease.
- Represented a franchise owner and its principal in multiple litigations in state courts in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and D.C., in connection with breach of lease claims against various franchises and two enforcement actions for alleged violations of consumer protection statutes.
- Successfully briefed and argued an appeal upholding a client’s award of attorneys’ fees against a defendant housing cooperative in connection with a mold damage lawsuit.
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News & Views
Article / Publications
Navigating the Commercial-to-Residential Conversion BoomSeptember/October 2025
Case / Cases & Deals
Blank Rome Successfully Assists Historic Brooklyn Church in Evicting SquattersOctober 2, 2024
Cases & Deals / Deal
Blank Rome Wins Summary Judgment Motion for Property Owner, Developing Law on “Time of the Essence” ClosingsApril 30, 2024
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Recognitions
2024–2025, New York Metro “Rising Star” in Real Estate Law, listed in Super Lawyers
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Bar Admissions
- New York
Education
- Oberlin College, BA
- Florida State University College of Law, JD
A description of the standard or methodology on which the accolades are based can be found here.