John Smolen

Practice Areas

John P. Smolen counsels public entities, private concessionaires/contractors, and financing parties in large, complex design-build and public-private partnership (P3/PPP) civil and social infrastructure projects across the country. John Co-Leads our P3/Infrastructure Group.

John has played a leading role in the procurement, negotiation, financing, and administration of several P3 and design-build projects in the transportation, transit, and social infrastructure spaces. John has represented public clients in several states. John has also represented developer consortia, as well as lenders in several horizontal and vertical infrastructure projects from statutory drafting, through pre-procurement, deal structuring, procurement, and negotiation, to post-selection commercial and financial close, with additional experience in implementation and administration.

Career

Admissions:

Maryland

District of Columbia

Kansas

U.S. Supreme Court

Professional Memberships

Maryland State Bar Association

Kansas Bar Association

Personal

University of Kansas School of Law (J.D.)

Editor-in-Chief, Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (M.A.)

U.S. Naval Academy (B.S., with merit)