Orlando partner Rob Webb, the senior member and founding leader of Baker Hostetler's Hospitality Industry Team, was profiled in the April 2010 North American edition of Perspective Magazine, the timeshare and fractional ownership industry's leading independent magazine.
Webb has practiced in virtually all aspects of the international resort and leisure industry over the past 30 years, and was instrumental in the creation, design, and development of many of today's leading multisite timeshare plans and has participated in the drafting and adoption of every Florida statutory amendment and administrative rule affecting the timeshare industry since 1983. Webb has been active in the American Resort Development Association (ARDA), the national timeshare trade association, since 1981. He currently serves as Treasurer of ARDA, as a member of the ARDA Board of Directors and its Executive Committee, as a board member of the ARDA International Foundation, as an ARDA Trustee, as Chair of the ARDA Legislative Council, and as counsel to ARDA-Florida.
Referring to the shared-ownership legislation in which Webb has been involved in creating, he was asked what has been the most meaningful or had the most impact. Among others, Webb noted that on the federal level he "drafted the amendment to the Internal Revenue Code that we got Congress to adopt in 1997, exempting timeshare association reserves and excess revenues for the most part from federal income taxation–that's a little bit of an overstatement, but I think for purposes of trying to describe the legislation it's accurate."
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