Joanna Horsnail

Practice Areas

Clients turn to Joanna Horsnail for representation on a variety of construction and government transactions. Her experience includes traditional power projects, renewable energy projects, and other infrastructure projects. Her practice focuses on the following areas:

Design and Construction: Joanna represents public and private owners, developers, lenders, and contractors regarding the design, construction, development, financing, acquisition, and disposition of facilities, including various public-private partnership projects. She negotiates and prepares EPC contracts, design and construction agreements, concession agreements, sponsorship agreements, naming rights agreements, leases, service agreements, purchase agreements, operation and maintenance agreements, consulting contracts, and various project management agreements.

Public and Project Finance: Clients seek Joanna's experience in public and project finance. Joanna has participated in financings for the State of Illinois (bond counsel for $10 billion pension obligation bond financing, which was named a Bond Buyer Midwest deal of the year), the City of Chicago, the Board of Education of the City of Chicago, the Illinois Housing Development Authority, the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and other public and not-for-profit entities. Joanna also serves clients on construction-related aspects of project finance transactions, including representing lenders and sponsors.

General Governmental Representation: Joanna provides general counsel to government bodies engaged in activities such as construction, privatization, economic development, procurement, complex developments, and special projects. She has negotiated and documented sophisticated transactions involving the State of Illinois, the City of Chicago, the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority, and the Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority.

Joanna is the managing partner of the firm's Chicago office and served as chair of Mayer Brown's Diversity Steering Board.