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Carlton Fields provides counsel on a wide variety of complex public-private partnership (PPP) transactions to clients in the public and private sectors. The extensive experience of our multi-disciplinary PPP team encompasses the full range of elements contained in PPPs, including:
- public procurement assistance and counseling
- teaming agreements
- non-disclosure agreements
- concession agreement review, preparation, and negotiation
- development and construction planning
- legislative assistance
- due diligence of all project aspects
- financing including TIFIA and Private Activity Bonds
- environmental review, permitting, and clearance
- project documentation of all types including O&M and EPC agreements
- performance-related issues during design, construction, technology deployment, and operations
Our PPP team includes attorneys and government consultants who focus their practices in the areas of:
- Real Estate
- Construction Services
- Finance
- Procurement
- Insurance
- Taxation
- Entity Formation and Corporate Governance
- Land Use and Zoning
- Environmental Permitting
- Administrative Law and Regulatory Issues
Team members previously held positions at government agencies such as the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and Florida Department of Community Affairs. Many are board certified by The Florida Bar as specialists in their areas of expertise, including:
- Construction Law
- City, County and Local Government Law
- State and Federal Law and Administrative Practice
- Real Estate
- Tax
We have extensive experience in providing assistance with respect to the planning, staging, phasing, development, design, and construction of many complex PPP projects. We assist and work with all participants, including owners, developers, contractors, architects, and subcontractors to protect and implement the expectations and goals of our clients.
Below is a list of the general types of matters with which our team members are often involved:
- Toll Roads/Expressways
- Airports
- Urban mixed use street front retail, residential, and entertainment development projects
- Developments of Regional Impact and Special Taxing Districts
- Convention Centers
- Professional Sports Facilities
- Schools and Educational Facilities
- Ski Resorts
- Affordable Housing Projects
- Communications, Energy, and Utility Facilities
- Hospitals
- Amusement Parks
Representative PPP Projects:
- Representation of a consortium of U.S. and non-U.S. construction companies in its bid to become the concessionaire to construct, operate, and maintain the $1.5 billion Port of Miami Tunnel.
- Representation of a consortium of non-U.S. companies in its bid to become the concessionaire to provide express lanes for Interstate 595 in Broward County, Florida.
- Representation of a consortium of U.S. and non-U.S. companies in its bid to become the concessionaire to lease, operate, and maintain Alligator Alley.
- Representation of a consortium in its bid to become the concessionaire to make additions to the SR 83 Choctawhatchee Bay Bridge and Relief Bridge Project in Walton County, Florida.
- Representation of the developers of CityPlace in West Palm Beach, one of the first urban mixed use street front retail, residential and entertainment development projects of its kind in the United States. The CityPlace project serves as a model for similar developments across the United States.
- Special Counsel to the City and County of Denver in public-private partnership developments in Denver, Colorado, in connection with the leasing of the Winter Park Ski Resort.
- General Counsel to New Elitch Gardens in the development of an urban amusement park (now a Six Flags park) in Denver on a previously inaccessible brownfields site.
Attorney to Contact for Additional Information
Andrew "Josh" Markus
Phone: 305.539.7433
Email:
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