Overview

Founder and former chairman of Nossaman’s Infrastructure Group, Geoffrey Yarema has spent more than three decades developing national best practices for innovative procurement, contracting and financing structures that successfully move large transportation projects from concept to reality. These include design-build, design-build-operate-maintain (DBOM), toll concession, availability payment, pre-development and other types of public-private partnership (P3) contracts. His expertise covers the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA), Railroad Rehabilitation & Improvement Financing (RRIF), Private Activity Bonds (PABs) and other such tools.

State departments of transportation, as well as regional and local agencies, regularly rely upon Geoff’s advice and frequently name him Special Assistant Attorney General. He is often called to testify as an expert before the United States Congress and state legislatures on alternative delivery and financing of the country’s most important projects. A member of the National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission, he played a key role in drafting the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) – a 2009 template for sweeping reform of the nation’s transit and finance framework.

Chambers Global and Chambers USA repeatedly have ranked Geoff in the top tier of the P3 projects category, describing him as one of the most influential attorneys in the business and the dominant player in the niche nationwide. He is the only two-time recipient of the American Road and Transportation Builders Association’s private sector Entrepreneur of the Year award, most recently in 2012. In 2008, the organization named him the most important private sector professional to the advancement of P3s over the two-decade history in the national transport arena.

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