Mayer Brown is prolific across construction sectors and has advised on large projects including infrastructure, manufacturing and processing plants, energy and power, and residential and commercial real estate. Joanna Horsnail leads the construction and engineering practice in Chicago, where she acts for owners, developers, designers, contractors and construction managers in transactional matters. Chicago-based Nathan Galer advises on project development and finance agreements, including EPC and professional services agreements. The firm’s Houston office benefits from the presence of litigation and dispute resolution head, Charles Kelley, who regularly represents global companies in the construction space. Kelley and Horsnail are currently advising Team Japan on the Texas Central High-Speed Rail Project multi-million dollar deal, in which it will design and build a railway line and fast-train system between Dallas and Houston.
L’éditorial du Legal 500
- Profil
- Réseaux sociaux
Clients clés
- Acciona Energy North America Corporation
- Accelerate Maryland Partners (Macquarie Capital & Transurban)
- Alabama Department of Transportation
- Arkansas Department of Transportation
- Benteler International AG
- Caterpillar
- Consortium of Central Japan Railway Company, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Hitachi, Toshiba and NEC
- Constellation Energy
- Cummins
- Garver Engineering and HNTB
Points forts
- Advising a consortium of Central Japan Railway Company, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Hitachi, Toshiba and NEC ("Team Japan") on the Texas Central High Speed Rail Project. Their goal is to design and build a railway line and fast-train system ("Shinkansen") between Dallas and Houston. The estimated project cost is US$16.5 billion.
- Serving as project counsel to the Gateway Program Development Corporation, a bi-state partnership of New York, New Jersey, New Jersey Transit, Amtrak and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, on its multi-billion dollar investment program to replace and update rail infrastructure assets along the Northeast Corridor, and increase track, tunnel, bridge and station capacity.
- Represented Accelerate Maryland Partners (AMP), a consortium of Macquarie Capital & Transurban, on the execution of the Phase P3 pre-development agreement for the Maryland Department of Transportation’s (MDOT) I-495/270 P3 project.
Avocats
Les grands avocats du marché
Avocats associés reconnus parmi les leaders du marché par leurs pairs et leurs clients, régulièrement présents dans les grands dossiers dans lesquels ils sont au premier plan.
Responsable de la pratique
Joanna Horsnail
Autres avocats clés
Nathan Galer; Charles Kelley