Robert Kritzman is a Partner and Business Unit Leader at Kelley Kronenberg, focusing his practice on maritime law and corporate transactional maritime matters. He is a former general counsel for a major international cruise line with decades of experience in the maritime and hospitality industries, representing clients in complex mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, and corporate finance matters.

Robert’s unique combination of in-house counsel leadership experience, extensive private equity and M&A transaction work, and deep maritime industry knowledge positions him to serve as either lead counsel or specialized industry counsel for complex corporate transactions in the maritime, hospitality, transportation, and shipping industries.

Prior to joining Kelley Kronenberg, Robert served as a partner at multiple law firms, where his practice specialized in mergers and acquisitions, venture capital start-ups, corporate governance, commercial litigation, cross-border transactions, bank financings, debt restructurings, and ship sale, construction, and finance transactions. He has represented clients in transactions exceeding one billion dollars, including representing a European pharmaceutical company as strategic buyer in a billion-dollar-plus acquisition of a micronization division, representing the purchaser of a luxury passenger cruise line in a transaction valued at more than one billion dollars, and representing investors in purchasing a cruise line and related brand licensing rights.

His extensive transactional experience includes representing sellers of industrial businesses and vessel management companies, creditors in hotel property restructurings and sales, purchasers of international spa and wellness companies, partners in Caribbean resort development and financing, and shipping companies in acquisitions of distressed shipbuilders. His maritime practice covers shipbuilding contracts, vessel lease transactions, Jones Act and Passenger Vessel Services Act compliant financing and time charter transactions, and environmental and safety compliance matters.

Robert served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel for Norwegian Cruise Line for eighteen years, where he was responsible for all legal affairs and held executive management responsibility for human resources and government affairs. He served on the Board of the International Council of Cruise Lines and as an Executive Committee and Board Member of the North West Cruise Association.

Robert earned his Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Florida. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law.