Described by clients to Chambers as “excellent,” and “thorough and honest” and “very creative,” he was recently named a “Rising Star” by Law360, a “Deal Maker of the Year” by Finance Monthly, and a “Leading Lawyer” by IFLR1000.
Formerly of Hunton’s London office, Jamie 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, Jamie has more than twelve years of experience advising on some of the most difficult and innovative 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. Two of his deals have been named the “Deal of the Year” — one in the 2022 IFLR Americas Debt & Equity category and one in the 2019 IJGlobal Asia Pacific Roads category.
During his time in the Navy, Jamie prosecuted members of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Mahdi Army before the Central Criminal Court of Iraq, oversaw the Joint Transition Office mission to inform the Iraqi Cabinet of evidence against 15,000 detainees, and clerked for the Court of Military Commissions Review in Washington, D.C., hearing appeals of unlawful belligerents tried by military commission in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He was also honored to serve our Marines and Sailors as a legal advocate and defense attorney in courts martial and on appeal before the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Military Review.
Jamie 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. He is frequently sent abroad by the U.S. Departments of State and Commerce to lecture on project finance and P3s, and was chosen as a principal contributor to the Commercial Law Development Program’s inaugural PPP Webinar (English)(French)(Russian).
Market leading experience in University Utility System P3s, including (i) representation of the University of Louisville on its ongoing procurement of a 50-year design, build, finance, operate maintain (DBFOM) concession and monetization of its central utility plant and steam distributions system, (ii) representation of the winning consortium, Sacyr Plenary Utility Partners Idaho LLC, on the 50-year design, build, finance, operate, maintain concession of the University of Idaho Utility System, which included a $225 million up-front payment to the University following a competitive procurement, (iii) and other representations of short-listed bidders for utility concessions at the University of Iowa and the University of Florida, including several of the world’s leading energy and infrastructure companies.
Advised Purple Line Transit Constructors, the DB Contractor on the Purple Line P3 Project, on the recent unwind of the design-build contract for the 16-mile light rail line extending from Bethesda in Montgomery County to New Carrollton in Prince George's County, Maryland, including in negotiations with the sponsors, the Maryland Department of Transportation, PABs bondholders, and TIFIA.
Advised Altria Group Inc. in its long-term virtual power purchase agreement with a NextEra wind generator in Haskell and Throckmorton Counties, Texas, which is intended to address the emissions from 100 percent of Altria’s annual purchased electricity demand across all U.S. facilities.
Advised the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation in connection with the $257.2 million acquisition from Norfolk Southern Corporation of approximately 28 miles of NS-owned “V-line” right-of-way, including existing tracks from Christiansburg in southwest Virginia’s New River Valley to the Salem Crossovers. This acquisition was a key part of Virginia’s Western Rail Initiative, which will expand passenger rail service from Washington, DC to Roanoke, Va. and to the New River Valley.
Counsel to the developer Navy Hill Development Corporation in a $1.8 billion urban redevelopment project in Richmond, Virginia, which includes a $250 million sports and entertainment arena funded by the City of Richmond through tax increment financing bonds.
Advised a leading transportation infrastructure fund on its bid to acquire a long-term concession and lease of the parking system at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Arizona.
Advised a leading infrastructure fund on a long-haul fiber-optic project in the United States.
Advised the Virginia Department of Transportation on the DBFOM procurement of the $2.1 billion I-66 HOT Lanes Project in Northern Virginia, the largest P3 tendered to date by the Commonwealth of Virginia.