Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP announced today that Marcus J. Lemon has joined the firm in its Washington, DC office from Polsinelli, where he was a shareholder and Chair of the Infrastructure & Public-Private Partnerships Group.

An experienced public-private partnership (P3) and project finance attorney with more than 22 years of public and private sector work in P3 and project finance, Lemon is one of the few practitioners in the U.S. P3 market with experience in transactional, federal regulatory, and public policy aspects of infrastructure and public-private partnerships. Lemon is also one of the few practitioners in the U.S. who has experience representing clientele on all three sides of the deal table – owner, developer/concessionaire, and lender. His deal credentials include several projects that are first of their kind in the U.S. market, ranging from $100 million to over $2.5 billion in value.

A former presidentially appointed Chief Counsel to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Lemon served as lead advisor to the FHWA Administrator and the Secretary of Transportation on Public-Private Partnerships, where he advanced many initiatives in various programs such as TIFIA, private investment at border crossings, the USDOT Credit Council, and creation of what is now the Build America Bureau. His deal credentials include extensive experience with transportation, utility, and social infrastructure projects. He has extensive experience on transportation megaprojects involving highways, bridges, railroads, transit systems, and ports. His transportation experience also includes extensive deal work with the TIFIA, PABs, and TIGER Programs. Lemon’s utility experience includes extensive work on megaprojects involving energy facilities, fiber optic and telecommunications systems, alternative energy systems, and water and wastewater systems. His social infrastructure experience includes extensive work on megaprojects involving public use buildings, courthouses, schools, military housing, parking garages, and other public development projects that contain a private investment component. He also served as Director of the Infrastructure, Transportation & P3 Team for the Presidential Transition of President Trump, leading a team of 35 experts in developing policy and a plan for $1 trillion of infrastructure improvements and financing.

“I have known and worked with Marc for many years, dating back to our time practicing together at McKenna Long & Aldridge,” said Earle R. Taylor, III, who leads the firm’s Public Finance Team. “He is an excellent lawyer and will greatly enhance Nelson Mullins’ capability to serve clients engaging in P3 transactions. As a result of Nelson Mullins’ planned combination with Broad and Cassel, Nelson Mullins has increased its focus on the P3 marketplace.”

Established in 1897, Nelson Mullins has more than 600 attorneys and government relations professionals with offices in 11 states and Washington, DC. For more information on the firm, go to www.nelsonmullins.com.