Mr John O'Neill > Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP > Richmond, United States > Lawyer Profile
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RICHMOND, VA 23219
VIRGINIA
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Mr John O'Neill

Work Department
EIT - Infrastructure: Public Private Partnerships
Position
Partner and founder of the firm’s P3 and Infrastructure Practice
Career
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.
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
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Industry focus > Education
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Miami Elite > International corporate and M&A
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- 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: equity offerings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- 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
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Industry focus > Education