Public-Private Partnerships
As communities and developers seek to finance and create new projects and new ways of delivering services, public-private partnerships (P3) are often a tool. Barnes & Thornburg has acted as counsel to governmental entities and developers in the privatization of governmental services and projects.
We have represented governmental units and developers in public-private partnerships in a number of states on such projects as state lottery services, a major water utility, the construction of consolidated justice facilities, toll roads, interstate highways and local street and road projects. Clients rely on our unmatched knowledge of public finance, infrastructure financing, public-private partnerships and our experience in Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Ohio working to find creative and effective financing solutions. We have also represented a governmental unit in connection with the bankruptcy of a developer of a P3 project, several years after the governmental unit and the developer entered into its public-private agreement.