Robert S. Burney draws on over 40 years of experience as a business attorney to assist, support, and mentor the attorneys in the firm's Business and Financial Services Group. Rob has spent his entire legal career at Lindabury, joining the firm as a summer associate in 1984 and serving as a shareholder of the firm from 1993 to 2025. For many years he chaired Lindabury's Business and Financial Services Group and served on the firm's Executive Committee.
While he continues to actively practice, his current focus is on providing high-level guidance to the firm's clients and mentoring the next generation of Lindabury attorneys.
Experience & Accomplishments
Throughout his career, Rob has established a reputation for handling complex, high-stakes transactions.
Early in his career, Rob focused on representing hospitals and other healthcare providers in transactional matters, including mergers, acquisitions, and consolidations, as well as tax-exempt, taxable, and FHA-insured financings. His accomplishments in this sector are significant including representing numerous New Jersey hospitals in the issuance and sale of tax-exempt bonds.
In 2009, he served as borrower's counsel in a $755 million FHA-insured mortgage loan to finance the construction of a new state-of-the-art hospital. At the time of closing, it was the largest single transaction in the history of the HUD Section 242 Program and the largest hospital financing ever in New Jersey.
He served as legal counsel for the New Jersey Assisted Living Council, the trade organization for operators of assisted living facilities in the state.
Rob has decades of experience representing banks, insurance companies, and business clients in secured credit transactions, including residential and commercial construction loans, commercial mortgages, term loans, lines of credit, maritime loans, and tax-exempt bond financing.
He also devotes a substantial portion of his practice to commercial and industrial real estate, including the purchase, leasing, subleasing, and financing of industrial, office, and retail properties.