Public-Private Partnerships

Served as counsel to MEDCO in connection with issuance of $300 million-plus Private Activity Bonds Series 2016 for a light rail P3 project in Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties in Maryland. This was the first major P3 project under Maryland’s P3 legislation and was structured around availability payments from the Maryland Department of Transportation.

Served as bond counsel to MEDCO in connection with the Maryland Port Authority’s privatization and financing of the Seagirt Marine Terminal in Baltimore’s harbor, which is now operated pursuant to a lease and concession agreement.

Served as counsel to a company that owns, manages, and develops commercial, residential and mixed-use real estate throughout the country. Our representation consisted of handling TIF work for the master developer and majority land owner for the Downtown Columbia master plan and in connection with its redevelopment of a major shopping mall in Alexandria, Virginia.

Served as counsel on the development and financing of National Harbor, a 7,000,000-square-foot, mixed-used community along the Potomac River;

Served as counsel on the development and $171 million bond financing of a 400-room hotel, golf course, spa and resort in Cambridge, Maryland, by Hyatt Hotels Corporation.

Served as bond counsel and transaction counsel to MEDCO in connection with the Owings Mills Metro Centre TIF—the first transaction closed using the expanded authority of MEDCO to participate in TIF deals pursuant to legislation enacted by the Maryland General Assembly, which we played a lead role in drafting. We also served as counsel to MEDCO in connection with the Port Covington TIF in Baltimore City and a TIF for the redevelopment of Sparrows Point in Baltimore County.

Provided real estate, finance and bond counsel legal services for the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation (USRC). The vision for the next century of Union Station is to restore and modernize the station itself; develop more than three million square feet of office, residential, retail and hotel space in the air rights above the existing train yard into a world-class intermodal transportation hub; and create a new urban neighborhood that will bridge growing neighborhoods now separated by train tracks.

Represented the operator of a two-airport system that provides domestic and international air service for the mid-Atlantic region in connection with the enhancement of its procurement procedures, its internal bid protest process and in litigation related to the interpretation and implementation of its interstate compact and related statutes and leases, including with respect to jurisdictional issues arising out of the authority’s complex statutory and regulatory framework; specific disputes relating to construction, concession and other projects; and privilege issues regarding board proceedings before U.S. district courts in the Eastern District of Virginia and D.C., the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. Supreme Court and Virginia state courts, including the Virginia Supreme Court.