Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

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John O'Neill

John O'Neill

Work Department

EIT - Infrastructure: Public Private Partnerships

Position

Partner and head of the firm’s P3 and Infrastructure practice

Career

As head of the firm’s P3 and Infrastructure practice, John’s practice focuses on public-private infrastructure development, public finance, capital finance and complex commercial lending. John is among the very few lawyers in the United States with substantial experience on both the project development and the public finance sides of structuring transactions for a broad range of complex public and public-private infrastructure projects. His transactional experience includes service as counsel to governmental owners, equity sponsors, concessionaires and financing parties for projects such as roads and highways, passenger rail and transit assets, airports, convention and conference centers, educational facilities, government administrative facilities, and water, wastewater and storm water management facilities.

John is active in the firm’s management and currently serves as co-head of the firm’s Business Practice Group. He previously served as the first Managing Partner of the firm’s Richmond office and as head of the firm’s Public Finance practice group, a practice area in which he is nationally recognized as a Fellow in the American College of Bond Counsel.

Memberships

Chair (2016-2019), Transportation Infrastructure and PPP Committee, Infrastructure and Regulated Industries Section, American Bar Association Member, Virginia Bar Association Member, Richmond Bar Association Member, National Association of Bond Lawyers Member, Past President, The Bond Club of Virginia Fellow, Virginia Law Foundation Leadership Metro Richmond, Class of 2006

Education

JD, Pepperdine University School of Law, 1983 BA, University of Richmond, 1977

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