Roesler, Robert C

Mr. Roesler works with the firm’s Property + Development, Commercial Finance, and Business Services teams, specializing in real estate transactions and commercial finance transactions. He has diverse experience in the purchase and sale of commercial, retail, industrial, and multi-family residential properties, structuring and pursuing development transactions, and negotiating leases and subleases.  Mr. Roesler’s finance practice emphasizes structural and security aspects of commercial lending work, and he has represented lenders, participant banks, borrowers, guarantors and investors in a variety of loan and finance transactions from multi-million dollar portfolio loans and international transactions to short-term unsecured financings and credit lines.

Prior to joining Paul Frank + Collins, Mr. Roesler was a shareholder in Roesler & Whittlesey which he formed in 1986 and later the firm became Roesler, Whittlesey, Meekins and Amidon.  The firm subsequently merged with Doremus and Kantor and became Doremus Roesler & Kantor.  In these firms, Mr. Roesler performed a variety of real property and finance transactions, including the formation of joint ventures, tenant in common agreements, and other equity investment structures to facilitate development projects. Mr. Roesler began his career as an associate at the general practice firm of Black, Wilson & Hoff in 1969 and then at Dinse, Allen and Erdmann where he became a partner in 1974.  Through his career, Mr. Roesler has worked on project finance, secured and unsecured finance transactions, and corporate transactions such as series investment rounds, bridge loans, and mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Roesler is a Founder and current President and Chairman of the Board of Vermont Attorneys Title Corporation.  He previously served as an attorney for Vermont Tomorrow, an environmental lobby. He has resided in Shelburne, Vermont since 1977 and is a father of five and grandfather of five as well.