Robert Eidnier focuses his practice on tax issues relating to public finance, and corporate and partnership federal income tax matters. His experience includes representing clients before both the Appeals Office and the National Office of the IRS and structuring corporate acquisitions and dispositions. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for more than 10 years and as an Ohio Super Lawyer each year since 2004. In 2008 Robert was elected as a fellow into the American College of Bond Counsel.

Robert has extensive experience in structuring the tax aspects of state and local bond issues. This experience includes governmental use bonds, as well as qualified 501(c)(3) bonds and other tax-exempt private activity bonds, and complex arbitrage matters, particularly those arising in innovative refunding transactions. Robert’s experience includes in-depth analysis of all forms of financial derivatives including swaps and similar financial products. These products raise complex arbitrage and other issues in the context of both original and refunding bond issues.

Robert has extensive experience in public-private partnerships including stadium financings. Financings to which he has devoted substantial time include those for the Arizona Cardinals Football Stadium, Cleveland Browns Football Stadium and the District of Columbia Baseball Stadium. The bonds issued to finance these and other public-private partnership facilities involve complex allocations of multiple sources of funding including, in addition to bond proceeds, private contributions and issuer equity, as well as various forms of tax and non-tax revenues.

Robert also has substantial experience in the formation of complex structures involving corporations, partnerships and exempt organizations in the utilization of New Markets Tax Credits.

Robert is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association and National Association of Bond Lawyers (NABL). He is a frequent speaker at the NABL Bond Attorneys’ Workshop, and serves as panel chair and member of its Steering Committee. He has also been a frequent speaker at the Cleveland Tax Institute, of which served as chair in 2002.
Robert has also served as the chair and spoken at the NABL Fundamentals Seminar, and has been a member of the faculty of the NABL Tax Seminar. He has served as the editor in chief of Federal Taxation of Municipal Bonds, published jointly by NABL and Lexis.

Robert is registered as a certified public accountant in Ohio.