Hunton & Williams LLP Names Leaders of Public Finance Team and Public-Private Partnership Practice Group

Selby leads high-profile airport, pro sports and development work, O’Neill directs top public-private infrastructure projects

NEW YORK ― Hunton & Williams LLP announced today that Douglass P. Selby will lead the firm’s public finance team, succeeding John D. O’Neill Jr., who now will lead the firm’s newly formed infrastructure public-private partnership (P3) practice group.

Selby, a partner in the firm’s Atlanta office, serves as bond and disclosure counsel to issuers and as underwriters’ counsel to investment banks for governmental and private activity bonds. As bond counsel for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport; disclosure counsel to issuers in Georgia, Florida and Mississippi; and the recipient of multiple Bond Deal of the Year awards, Selby heads a team at the cutting-edge of public finance law’s most complex developments.

“I’m honored to lead the firm’s nationally recognized public finance team as we continue our longstanding commitment to our clients and to our role providing innovative counsel for integral capital improvement projects,” said Selby, who represents entities in financing airports, NFL, NBA and MLS sports stadiums, waterworks and other development projects.

In addition to leading the public-private partnership practice group, O’Neill is managing partner of the firm’s Richmond, Va., office. O’Neill has led multiple high-profile P3 projects, including his current work advising the Virginia Department of Transportation on its $2.1 billion Interstate 66 multi-modal project, one of the nation’s largest P3 initiatives.

“As public-private partnerships gain increasing importance in addressing much-needed improvements to our transportation systems and other critical infrastructure, we have assembled a great team, and, in concert with our public finance group, are well-positioned as a leader in developing, financing and restructuring P3 projects across the United States and abroad,” O’Neill said.

Hunton & Williams’ public finance practice reflects experience in addressing virtually every significant legal issue that affects both governmental financing and tax-exempt financing for private entities. The firm has served as bond counsel, special disclosure counsel and counsel to issuers, underwriters, trustees, credit enhancers and institutional investors in transactions throughout the United States. The firm has been listed in The Bond Buyer’s Municipal Marketplace (Red Book) for more than 50 years.

The firm’s nationally ranked multidisciplinary P3 practice group advises on projects involving highways and bridges, toll roads, transit systems, airports, water and sewer facilities, power facilities, telecommunications and fiber-optic systems, schools and mixed-use facilities. With more than 40 project and public finance lawyers, the group regularly collaborates with the firm’s tax, real estate and land use, and environmental lawyers, who are intimately familiar with federal and state-specific statutes and regulations that apply to projects in the United States.