John O'Neill

As the founder, former head and senior lawyer in 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 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.