About Robert
Robert Maurer built a career that connects accounting, business management and corporate law. He earned a B.S. in accounting from Saint Louis University in 1983, followed by a J.D. from the same school in 1987. He returned to the classroom later, completing an MBA in management at Washington University in St. Louis in 2003. Those degrees supply the technical backbone for the work he has done in-house and in private practice.
He began his legal career as a litigation associate at Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP in 1987. That early work placed him in court rooms and in the drafting room, handling disputes that gave him practical exposure to business litigation. In 1989 he moved in-house as assistant general counsel for ITT Commercial Distribution Finance Corp., where he shifted toward client-side counseling and transactional matters.
The 1990s and early 2000s were spent in a series of corporate counsel roles at financial services companies. In 1995 he became associate general counsel at Deutsche Financial Services Corporation. He took an operations counsel role at GE Commercial Distribution Finance Corp. in 2002, and in 2004 he joined Textron Financial Corporation as division counsel. These positions involved contract negotiation, regulatory issues, and matters tied to commercial lending and distribution finance.
In 2012 he formed The Maurer Law Office and serves as principal. The firm handles matters that reflect his career history: corporate transactions, lender-side representation and disputes connected to commercial finance. He holds membership in the American Bar Association and maintains professional ties to the Missouri legal community.
Colleagues describe his work style as pragmatic. He approaches problems by breaking them into discrete issues and mapping them to business outcomes. That method reflects his accounting background and his later managerial training. Day-to-day practice combines document drafting and negotiation with counseling corporate clients on compliance and risk allocation.
His office is available by appointment. He balances counseling and litigation work, often advising lenders and other financial services clients on contract terms, enforcement, and contested matters. He concentrates on corporate finance transactions, lender-side matters, and commercial litigation.
