Robert E. Montejo

Partner

  • Robert E. Montejo
  • Phone: +1 202 776 7827

    Import to Address Book

  • Duane Morris LLP
    901 New York Avenue N.W., Suite 700 East
    Washington, DC 20001-4795
    USA
  • Duane Morris LLP
    201 S. Biscayne Boulevard, Suite 3400
    Miami, FL 33131-4325
    USA

Robert E. Montejo II practices in the area of real estate law, representing clients in real estate transactions and development for data centers, renewable energy, office, industrial, retail, hotel and multifamily properties located throughout the United States. Mr. Montejo’s broad transactional practice includes counseling clients with respect to acquisitions and dispositions, development, financings, workouts, leasing and joint ventures.

Mr. Montejo also represents borrowers, lenders and servicers in a variety of financing transactions, including acquisition and construction financing, mezzanine financing, credit line financing, loan workouts and loan restructurings.

Mr. Montejo’s clients include data center developers, energy companies, private equity firms, REITs, pension funds, hotel operators, insurance companies, asset managers, special servicers and banks. Mr. Montejo has also represented investors on bids for loan portfolios from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) through its structured transactions program.

Mr. Montejo is a 2013 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, where he was editor of the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a graduate, with high honors, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Admissions

  • Washington, D.C.
  • Florida

Education

  • Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 2013
  • University of North Carolina, B.A., with high honors, 2010

Experience

  • Duane Morris LLP
    - Partner, 2025-present
    - Special Counsel, 2021-2024

Representative Matters

    Data Centers, Digital Infrastructure and Defense

  • Represented a private equity fund in the $26.5 million sale of a data center in Colorado.

  • Represented a private equity fund in the $87.5 million sale of a data center in Northern Virginia.

  • Represented a real estate investment firm, as borrower, in connection with a $84.8 million CMBS loan.

  • Represented a real estate investment company in its $389 million refinancing of a critical data center project in downtown Los Angeles California.

  • Represented a joint venture of two real estate investment firms, as borrower, in connection with a $450 million CMBS loan to be used toward acquiring interests in a data center campus in Illinois.

  • Represented a private equity fund in the $122 million financing of a multi-property defense portfolio in Maryland and Virginia.

  • Represented a private equity fund in the $45 million financing and redevelopment of a defense project in Northern Virginia.

  • Represented a private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of an office building in Northern Virginia for redevelopment into a data center.

  • Represented a real estate investment company in the $77 million sale of a data center in Texas.

    • Hospitality

  • Represented a hotel REIT in the acquisition of a Hilton managed hotel portfolio.

  • Represented a hotel management company in the negotiation of a standard hotel management agreement for use across a large international hotel portfolio.

  • Represented investors in the acquisition and redevelopment of a hotel portfolio.

  • Represented a hotel REIT in sale of international hotel portfolio.

  • Represented a private equity fund in acquisition of large resort in South Florida.

  • Represented investors in the acquisition of large resort in Roslyn, Washington.

  • Represented an insurance company in the acquisition of convention center hotel in New York City.

  • Represented a development company in the sale of a hotel in Arlington, Virginia.

  • Represented real estate developer to purchase and adaptively reuse older hotels and motels in resort communities in order to provide workforce housing. This transaction is a 104-room conversion of a Super 8 in Naples, Florida.

    • Office, Life Sciences, Retail and Multifamily

  • Represented a development company in the sale of 386,000 square foot, 11-story office building.

  • Represented a joint venture in its $319 million financing and acquisition of a life science project in Boston, Massachusetts.

  • Represented a leading global provider of advanced pharmaceutical delivery technologies in the purchase and leaseback of a major biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility.
  • Represented a private equity fund in the sale of an office campus in Ohio.

  • Represented a real estate development company in the acquisition and financing of 250-unit apartment building in Washington, D.C.

  • Represented real estate development company in its development of a 165,000 square foot three-property assemblage in Harlem, New York.

  • Represented real estate investment firm in connection with its $32.5 million refinancing of an existing construction loan subject to a forbearance agreement in connection with the completion of an 80,000 square foot development in New York City, including 421 affordable housing units, NYC Fresh Program and community facility components for zoning bonuses.

  • Represented a joint venture in the acquisition of a 100,000 square foot (110 units) senior living facility.

  • Represented a joint venture in connection with a 75,000 square foot mixed use commercial and residential condominium development in midtown Manhattan.

  • Represented a joint venture in the acquisition and redevelopment of a 102,000 square foot shopping center.

    • Industrial and Energy

  • Represented a national clean energy developer in the acquisitions of over 100 MW of community solar projects in New York, Pennsylvania, California, and Maine.

  • Represented a Mexico-based provider of motor transportation equipment and parts in North America in its acquisition of an aluminum trailer maker and associated real estate assets.

  • Represented a manufacturer in the sale of a large industrial facility and adjacent land in Florida.

  • Represented a national energy company in the acquisition of a portfolio of solar properties located in New York.

  • Represented an energy company on a long term solar lease in Arizona.

  • Represented an insurance company in the acquisition and development of 7 MW community solar project in Prince George’s County, Maryland.

  • Represented joint venture in the acquisition of a 270,000 square foot cold-storage facility.

    • Lender Representation

  • Represented Capital One on $100 million loan secured by a data center in Northern Virginia.

  • Represented Bank Hapoalim on a $75 million loan secured by a portfolio of data center properties in multiple jurisdictions across the United States.

  • Represented EagleBank on $67 million loan secured by a data center in Northern Virginia.

  • Represented a private bridge lender, in its upsizing of an existing junior mezzanine loan, as part of a larger construction facility with a leading mortgage and senior mezzanine lender, to develop a 60,000 square foot ,19-story luxury residential condominium in New York City.

  • Represented Wells Fargo on $700 million syndicated loan secured by property in Miami, Florida.