Payments-Based Public-Private Partnerships (PPP): Public Benefit and Private Capital in 2015

Kylee is an infrastructure finance professional with over 12 years’ experience providing policy, procurement, financial and commercial advice to public and private sector clients. She specializes in the development and delivery of projects utilizing innovative procurement approaches, with a focus on Public Private Partnerships (P3 or PPP).

Since joining PwC in 2010, Kylee has worked with US public and private sector clients, primarily supporting the project development and procurement stages of their infrastructure projects. In this capacity she has worked on a number of recent PPP transactions, including the Denver Eagle Project and Maryland’s Purple Line Project.

Prior to joining PwC, Kylee supported multi-lateral development institutions with their global PPP capacity building efforts and also supported public sector entities in Australia to successfully develop, structure and close several PPP transactions.

Michael Conneran is a partner at Hanson Bridgett where he represents public agencies and private entities in a variety of matters involving real estate, transportation, and environmental law. He counsels public agencies with regard to transit oriented development projects and negotiates long-term ground leases, facility operating agreements, and other types of public-private partnerships. He also represents private firms entering into agreements with public entities. Michael also has extensive experience in laws that, in particular, apply to public agencies, including statutes governing procurement, public access to public records, conflicts of interest, and open meeting laws. Michael is a member of the Bay Area Council's Transportation Committee and the Municipal Law Institute Committee of the League of California Cities.

Firm Managing Partner; Chaired or Vice-Chaired law firm Construction and Public Contracts Department for over a decade; practice concentrated on complex projects and disputes with particular focus on accounting, scheduling, contract terms, insurance, safety, ethics, environmental and other regulatory issues; experienced in a wide range of project delivery methods including design-build and public-private-partnerships; projects included co-generation and processing plants, wind tunnels, cable stay bridges, highways, stadiums, hotels, courthouses, hospitals, water and wastewater treatment plants, parking garages, high-rise condominiums, environmental site restoration, demolition and large scale residential developments as well as ship construction and repair; represented both national and international general contractors, subcontractors, vendors, manufacturers and design professionals, as well as private and public owners; experienced with the Federal Acquisition Regulations, related agency regulations and statutes applicable to federal government funded contracts and grants; appeared before federal and state courts, boards of contract appeals, agency administrative judges and arbitration panels; assignments have been in various locations throughout the U.S. and its Territories. 

Also managed law firm Dispute Resolution Services practice for over a decade; served as arbitrator and mediator for the American Arbitration Association, Virginia Conflict Resolution Center, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (formerly NASD), the Better Business Bureau, the National Arbitration Forum, the Chesapeake Redevelopment and Housing Authority, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, the Circuit Courts for the Cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach and by private appointment; previously certified by the Supreme Court of Virginia as a Mediator and Mentor; construction matters have ranged from claims of defective workmanship to incomplete work to other performance and payment related problems; non-construction matters have ranged from business owner to securities fraud to creditor-debtor to employer-employee disputes; mediated attorney-client fee disputes for the Virginia State Bar; intermediated disputes between clients pursuant to the Virginia Rules of Professional Conduct; also served as a Hearing Officer for the Supreme Court of Virginia from 1991 – 2001 presiding over various state and local employee grievances and professional licensing disputes; represented construction clients in numerous alternative dispute resolution proceedings including AAA arbitration, mediation, early neutral evaluation and partnering sessions; founded the Norfolk and Portsmouth Bar Association ADR Committee that prepared a standing order for court sponsored ADR; conducted various presentations on ADR including as a guest lecturer at William & Mary School of Law; co-authored Alternative Dispute Resolution in Virginia Now, VBA News Journal, Vol. XXVI, No. 4, June 2000; voted to the Mediation and Arbitration category of Virginia Business Magazine’s Legal Elite and recipient of the Virginia Conflict Resolution Center Peace Maker Award.

Jong Sook Nee is a partner at McManimon Scotland & Baumann.  Her primary practice areas include redevelopment and finance for public and private clients.  Jong Sook’s clients have included the City of Bayonne, Township of Edison, City of Hoboken and Elberon Development Companies, to name a few.  Her work has been instrumental in generating economic development throughout the State of New Jersey and stabilizing ratables for public entities through creative and effective financing tools, including public-private partnerships.  Jong Sook’s work has been at the forefront of financing development ranging from tax exemptions to new markets tax credits.  She has also served as Policy Counsel to Governor Corzine, served on the State Planning Commission and was the appointed Smart Growth Ombudsman.  

Tony Kinn was appointed director of the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Office of Transportation Public-Private Partnerships on July 5, 2011.  

He is responsible for developing and implementing a statewide program for transportation project delivery via the Virginia Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995.

Kinn most recently served as assistant vice president and director of corporate relations for the University of Virginia’s University Engineering Foundation. He has spent most of his career in the corporate world in new business development.  Kinn was principal owner in the James A. Weaver Company, which was the third largest food brokerage firm in the U.S. His company also designed Market Metrics, a store-specific marketing software program, which became the foundation for what today is Spectra Systems.

He also was executive vice president of the Federated Group, a multi-billion dollar organization based in Chicago. At the Federated Group, Kinn was responsible for the management of new business development for all divisions west of the Mississippi River.  Kinn has also served as director of the Commonwealth's Department of Economic Development’s International Division, where his main responsibility was to draw firms to the Commonwealth from the Pacific Rim and Europe.