Law firm Squire Sanders added public-private partnership veteran Roderick Devlin to its public and infrastructure practice group in New York. He started Feb. 3.
Devlin, 43, arrived from Greenberg Traurig LLP, where he worked on P3 deals for eight years. Devlin will "help the firm further extend its preeminent public finance practice into this key market segment," said Bruce Gabriel, who leads Squire Sanders' 54-member practice.
"I know Squire Sanders well from Europe and Asia, where they have established and respected P3 and infrastructure practices. They are no stranger to P3 domestically," Devlin, a native of Scotland, said in an interview. "Squire Sanders has done some excellent work on TIFIA [Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act] financing for the U.S. Department of Transportation."
Before Greenberg Traurig, Devlin worked at Debevoise & Plimpton and Scottish firm Brodies LLP.
Devlin sees water and wastewater as "an emerging P3 area."
His favorite major deal was the Northwest Corridor project in Greater Atlanta, which involved the building of managed lanes to relieve heavy congestion by adding tolled, reversible lanes along interstates 75 and 575. Devlin represented the Georgia Department of Transportation on behalf of Greenberg Traurig.
"The project had a rocky history but GDOT [Georgia Department of Transportation] recognized that it was vital for the region and did an excellent good job of bringing it to a successful close last fall," he said of the estimated $840 million project, GDOT's first such deal and its largest project to date.
Devlin's other major projects include the Atlanta multi-modal passenger terminal; the North Tarrant Express in Texas; the East End Crossing-Ohio River Bridges Project in Kentucky and Indiana; the Goethals Bridge and JFK International Airport Terminal 4 P3 projects in New York; the Knik Arm bridge project in Alaska; and the Presidio Parkway project in California.
