Mr John O'Neill > Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP > Richmond, United States > Lawyer Profile
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Offices
RIVERFRONT PLAZA, EAST TOWER
951 EAST BYRD STREET
RICHMOND, VA 23219
VIRGINIA
United States
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Mr 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
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Project finance
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP represents governments, companies, and lenders in infrastructure projects ranging from managed toll lanes to courthouse constructions. Additionally, the firm focuses on acquisitions and financing of energy-related assets with a strong focus on the renewables space. John O’Neill heads the PPP and infrastructure practice from the firm’s Richmond office. The experienced lawyer is currently representing Virginia Passenger Rail Authority in a major rail service expansion project. In Washington, head of the energy and infrastructure team Jeffrey Schroeder guides domestic and international clients from both the conventional and renewable energy space through a range of transactions such as portfolio acquisitions and divestitures. Washington resident James Head specializes in university utility systems projects. Also in Washington, Vera Rechsteiner is a tax structuring specialist with notable experience in the Latin American and Caribbean market. Further recommended is Richmond-based Eric Nedell, a commercial financing specialist with a particular focus energy-asset based borrowing and lending.
Lawyer Rankings
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- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate