Mr John O'Neill > Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP > Richmond, United States > Lawyer Profile

Mr John O'Neill

804-788-8406 joneill@HuntonAK.com View profile

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