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Experience:
Joe Seliga practices in the area of state and local government law, representing public sector and private sector clients in a wide array of transactional, legislative and regulatory matters.
Joe has extensive experience in complex government transactions, particularly in the infrastructure sector. Joe played a principal role in the $1.83 billion concession and lease of the Chicago Skyway Toll Bridge, the first transaction of its kind in the United States, and the $3.8 billion Indiana Toll Road and $603 million Northwest Parkway concession and lease transactions, each of which received the Project Finance North American Transport Deal of the Year Award. Joe also has advised clients on path-breaking parking garage and airport concession and lease transactions and lottery privatization transactions.
In addition to his transactional work, Joe represents clients in various state and local government matters, including in the areas of ethics, election and campaign finance law, economic development incentives, public utility franchise and tax issues and legislative drafting and statutory interpretation.
Notable Engagements:
Advised the City of Chicago in all aspects of the $1.83 billion concession and lease of the Chicago Skyway with Macquarie Infrastructure Group and Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A., the first privatization of an existing toll road in the United States.
Represented the Indiana Finance Authority with respect to the $3.8 billion Indiana Toll Road concession and lease with Macquarie Infrastructure Group and Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A., the largest infrastructure privatization transaction ever completed in the United States.
Advised the City of Chicago and Chicago Park District in the $563 million concession and lease of the over 9,000 space Chicago downtown underground public parking system with the infrastructure fund of Morgan Stanley, the first privatization of an existing municipal public parking system in the United States.
Counsel to the Northwest Parkway Public Highway Authority in the $603 million concession and lease of the Northwest Parkway in Colorado with Brisa Auto-estradas de Portugal, S.A. and Companhia de Concessões Rodoviárias.
Advising the City of Chicago on the proposed long-term concession and lease of Chicago Midway International Airport, which would be the first privatization of a major airport in the United States.
Advised a private-sector bidder with respect to the proposed privatizations of the Illinois Lottery and the Indiana Lottery, the first proposed lottery privatization transactions in the United States.
Education:
Northwestern University School of Law, JD, cum laude, 2000; Coordinating Articles Editor, Northwestern University Law Review, University of Oxford, Marshall Scholar, Graduate Researcher in Geography and Urban Development, St. Catherine's College, 1996-1997, University of Leicester, Marshall Scholar, M.A. in Urban History with Distinction, 1997, Georgetown University, AB, magna cum laude, 1994; Phi Beta Kappa. | 