Rob Webb maintains a diverse international hospitality law practice with a strong emphasis on resort development and the travel and leisure industry. Rob has been active in the American Resort Development Association (ARDA) – the U.S. shared ownership trade association – for more than 30 years, and he has participated in the negotiation, drafting and lobbying of and for laws and administrative rules affecting the timeshare industry throughout the U.S. and the Caribbean since 1983. During an absence from BakerHostetler, Rob served as president of Island One, Inc., a multisite timeshare developer based in Orlando, where he gained valuable experience in the business side of the timeshare industry. With this perspective, as well as his involvement in the timeshare industry from its birth, Rob is able to anticipate trends and change in the industry and serve his clients beyond their expectations.

Experience:
 Advised clients in the structuring, development, marketing/sales, financing and management of numerous shared ownership and mixed-use leisure resorts, including the conversion of hotels to timeshare in Antigua, Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Canada, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Jamaica, Mexico, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, the Turks and Caicos Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands and throughout the United States.
 Served as the general counsel/secretary and director representing a diversified hospitality client.
 Assisted in the representation of a resort and marina during recapitalization and redevelopment. The redevelopment included a large hotel and marina with access to both Atlantic and Gulf sides of the Florida Keys.
 Represented a bank regarding the creation and launch of its timeshare consumer finance division. Advised and assisted the bank in laying the groundwork for its securitization conduit for loans.
 Serves as an ongoing advisor to a major Internet-based timeshare resale platform in matters that include related regulatory, financing and tax issues.
 Advised in the creation and use of a trust to own timeshare real property, as well as nonprofit, to serve as sole beneficiary of trust.
Provided advice regarding several complex and related tax implications of structure.
 Represented a hospitality client in the acquisition and rebranding of a mixed-use high-rise in downtown Miami.
 Conceived and drafted a legislative proposal to amend the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and create a special liquidation process for financially troubled timeshare HOAs and their projects.
 Assisted with the completion of the acquisition of two subdivisions in Orlando, Florida, and the commencement of whole unit and timeshare sales. Drafted a shared ownership plan and registration documents for units in one subdivision, and obtained the regulatory approval of documents in the process of drafting shared ownership and registration documents for units in the second subdivision. Negotiating and documenting a hypothecation facility for timeshare sales in plans.
 Assisted in the representation of a marketing agent and developer of a large luxury-leisure resort in Switzerland with respect to various registration, licensing, tax and transactional legal issues associated with offering real estate interests in the United States.
 Assisted in the representation of a successor developer of a mixed-use timeshare resort in litigation to establish control of the Master Association of the resort, as well as to establish the right of its multisite, trust-based Members Association to vote in resort condo association board elections. Advised the client on several other management and brand-related issues.
Recognition
 Chambers USA: Nationwide Leisure & Hospitality (2010 to 2018)
o Band 3 (2018 and 2014 to 2015), Band 4 (2016 to 2017 and 2012 to 2013), Up & Coming (2011)
 ARDA: Registered Resort Professional (RRP)
 ARDA: ACE Volunteer of the Year Award (2013)
 The Best Lawyers in America©
o Florida: Leisure and Hospitality Law (2015 to present)
o Best Lawyers© 2019 Leisure and Hospitality Law “Lawyer of the Year”
o Florida: Real Estate Law (2013 to present)
 Martindale-Hubbell: AV Preeminent

Memberships:
 American Bar Association
 Florida Bar Association
 Orange County, Florida Bar Association
 ARDA
o Treasurer
o Board of Directors
o Executive Committee
o Trustee
 ARDA International Foundation
o Treasurer
o Board of Directors
 ARDA Legislative Council: Chair
 Florida Troubled Resorts Task Force
 Citrus Club in Orlando, Florida: Board of Governors