Neil C Robinson Jr

Practice Areas

Real Estate

Land Use & Zoning

Resort Development

Experience

Neil Robinson is a highly regarded real estate attorney who has earned great respect for his professional abilities, comprehensive understanding of the law, and dedication to the community. He’s built a career based on hard work and diligence and has established a track-record rooted in going above and beyond to protect the interests of his clients.

Neil's extensive practice experience is focused on complex real estate transactions; administrative law, including permitting, zoning and land sales registrations, and development agreements; and industrial, commercial, mixed use, planned community, brownfields and resort real estate development.

With a reputation for his keen negotiation and communications skills, Neil is frequently retained to develop and/or interpret contractual relationships, most often in the area of complex real estate development.

A number of notable clients have turned to him for his background and experience in this regard, including Boeing; PGA of America; the Halliburton Company; International Paper Company; The Beach Company; Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund; Orange County, California; Bank of America, WestRock; South Carolina Ports Authority; Mercedes Benz Vans; Volvo; Home Depot USA; Gramling Brothers; Baker Motor Company; Hall Management Group and a host of other national developers, lending institutions and government entities.

Neil was a member of the team that successfully represented MeadWestvaco Corporation's Community Development and Land Management Group and the Rockefeller Group in procuring incentives for a new distribution center in Berkeley County, including construction of a new Interstate interchange, and subsequently the large mixed use community of Nexton.

He played an integral role in the representation of Boeing and in the negotiations with the State of South Carolina of the complex deal that brought the Dreamliner assembly plant to South Carolina and was a member of the firm's team that helped secure matching funds totaling $53 million, which resulted in Clemson University being awarded a $45 million grant for the off-shore wind turbine test facility at the Clemson University Restoration Institute site in North Charleston.

He represented the South Carolina State Ports Authority in the sale of its downtown headquarters site to make way for a new Lowe Enterprises luxury hotel.

Education