Infrastructure
Barnes & Thornburg's attorneys are nationally recognized for counseling public agencies, private investors, developers, and concessionaires on public procurement of large-scale civil, energy, and social infrastructure projects via alternative delivery methods.
Our team works regularly on Public-Private Partnership (P3) projects and has a deep familiarity with innovative finance tools and procurement authorities used to develop these complex infrastructure projects and programs. For example, we help clients plan procurements that reflect market trends, draft programmatic contract documents tailored to alternative delivery structures, and navigate every challenge from concept through completion.
Barnes & Thornburg supports every phase of infrastructure development — from providing legislative assistance for new alternative delivery options, through procurement and contract negotiation, to closing agreements that cover acquisition, financing, construction, operation, and maintenance of publicly owned assets.
The Infrastructure Practice includes lawyers recognized by Chambers and Best Lawyers, and The Legal 500 for P3 projects, along with IFLR1000-recognized professionals. We support our clients through an array of delivery methods, including:
- Conventional design-bid-build
- Design-build
- Progressive design-build
- Construction Manager/General Contractor (CM/GC)
- Pre-construction/pre-development approaches
- Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC)
- P3
It’s this distinct, integrated approach that ensures seamless coordination between legal co-advisors and client teams. To that end, commercial objectives remain aligned throughout each step — from early pre-procurement strategy through consensus scoring/evaluation meetings and all the way to contract administration after the awarding process.