Steve T. Park is a co-leader of the firm’s Infrastructure Group and is a partner in the Public Finance Group.
Public Finance. Steve works on capital market transactions advising issuers, underwriters, borrowers, and purchasers in connection with the structuring, issuance, offering, and restructuring of tax-exempt and taxable securities and other debt instruments and derivatives. He serves as bond, borrower's, and underwriter's counsel to various clients, including investment banking firms, higher education institutions, health care institutions, cultural institutions, and municipalities.
P3. Steve is a public-private partnership (P3) lawyer who routinely advises public entities, developers, contractors, and lenders in all phases of transportation, infrastructure, energy, social infrastructure, innovative delivery, and P3 projects. Steve also routinely works on large, complex design-build, CM/GC, and other alternative project delivery civil and social infrastructure projects across the country.
Experience
Representative Matters
P3 Experience
- Counsel to the Virginia Department of Transportation for the I-95 HOT Lanes Project, the I-395 HOT Lanes Project and the Capital Beltway NEXT Project
- Counsel to the Georgia Department of Transportation for the I-285/SR 400 Reconstruction Project, the I-285/I-20 East Interchange Project and I-285/I-20 West Interchange Project
- Counsel to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation for the Major Bridges P3 Initiative, the Partnership I-81 project, the Pennsylvania Turnpike privatization and the Middletown Station project
Professional Highlights
Professional Activities
National Association of Bond Lawyers
Pennsylvania Association of Bond Lawyers
National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
Recognition & Accomplishments
The Best Lawyers in America, public finance law, 2021-2025
The Legal Intelligencer, "Most Effective Dealmaker," 2022
Philadelphia VIP, Champion Award, 2022
Philadelphia Business Journal, "Best of the Bar," 2023
Speaking Engagements
"Building Bridges with Public-Private Partnership Financing," Women's Transportation Seminar and Women in Public Finance, October 4, 2023
"Funding v. Financing," The P3 Conference, Dallas, TX, March 3, 2020
The Bond Buyer's Transportation Finance/P3 Conference, Co-Chair, November 14-15, 2019
Board Memberships & Community Service
Board Member, Philadelphia VIP, 2023-Present
Before joining the firm, Steve worked in several capacities serving the needs of underprivileged, special-education, and at-risk children and teenagers.
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Credentials
Education
University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D. 2006)
Dartmouth College (B.A. 1998)
Languages
Korean
Admissions
Pennsylvania