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Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Offices
2200 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, NW
WASHINGTON DC 20037
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Mr James Head
Position
Partner and head of the firm’s Agency Finance Practice
Career
Mr. Head serves as head of Hunton Andrews Kurth’s Agency Finance Practice and is also a key member of the Public-Private Partnerships and Infrastructure Team.
Formerly based out of the firm’s London office, Mr. Head has extensive global experience and is currently representing many of the world’s leading infrastructure and public-private partnership (P3) actors — spanning from the United States government to the World Bank to leading infrastructure investors in New York and London. Supplementary to his previous service as a JAG Officer in the US Navy and Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of an American retail company, Mr. Head has more than twelve years of experience advising on some of the most difficult and innovate large-scale energy and infrastructure projects in the world, including in the United States, Argentina, Belize, Ecuador, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Burundi, Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, Croatia, Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia, Turkey, Cambodia, Mongolia, Oman and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Mr. Head is currently leading the firm’s representations of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation and is one of the nation’s foremost practitioners for University Utility System P3s.
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.
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