Jamie Head

About Jamie Head

Jamie is the Global Head of Energy & Infrastructure at Hunton, where he also leads the agency finance practice and is a key partner on the public-private partnership team.Described by clients to Chambers as “excellent” and “thorough and honest” and “very creative,” he was recently ranked in Projects by Chambers and named a “Rising Star” by Law360, a “Deal Maker of the Year” by Finance Monthly, and a “Leading Lawyer” by and Legal 500.Formerly of Hunton’s London office, Jamie has extensive global experience and is currently representing many of the world’s leading infrastructure and public-private partnership (P3) actors – spanning from the United States government to the World Bank to leading infrastructure investors in New York and London. In addition to his previous service as a JAG Officer in the US Navy and Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of an American retail company, Jamie has more than fourteen years of experience advising on some of the most difficult and innovative large-scale infrastructure projects in the world, including in the United States, Argentina, Belize, Ecuador, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Ghana, Gabon, Nigeria, Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Croatia, Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia, Turkey, Ukraine, Cambodia, Oman and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. During his time in the Navy, Jamie prosecuted members of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Mahdi Army before the Central Criminal Court of Iraq, oversaw the Joint Transition Office mission to inform the Iraqi Cabinet of evidence against detainees, and clerked for the Court of Military Commissions Review in Washington, D.C, hearing appeals of unlawful belligerents tried by military commission in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He was also honored to serve our Marines and Sailors as a legal advocate and defense attorney in courts martial and on appeal before the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Military Review.Jamie is frequently sent abroad by the U.S. Departments of State and Commerce to lecture on project finance and P3s, and was chosen as a principal contributor to the Commercial Law Development Program’s inaugural Webinar.

Experience

1. Partner

   Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

   Apr 2020 — Present · Washington, DC, US

   Leading the firm’s representation of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) on multiple investments, including (i) the provision of political risk insurance to facilitate sovereign-debt-for-nature swaps, including the seminal $364 million Blue Bond for Ocean Conservation in Belize, the largest-in-history $656 million Galápagos marine conservation-linked bond, and the first-in-Africa $500 million Gabon Blue Bond,(ii) a $630 million loan to a helium and gas liquefaction facility in South multiple oil and gas projects in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, including a $250 million loan to a gas processing facility and a $50 million loan to an oil production facility,(iv) a $50 million loan to a 150-bed hospital and medical training facility P3 in Oman,(v) a $50 million trade facilitation program in Ukraine in conjunction with the International Finance Corporation, and (vi) a $45 million loan to a warehouse operations project in Argentina.Market leading experience in University Utility System P3s, including (i) representation of a public university on its procurement of a 50-year design, build, finance, operate maintain (DBFOM) concession and monetization of its central utility plant and steam distributions system,(ii) representation of the winning consortium, Sacyr Plenary Utility Partners Idaho LLC, on the 50-year design, build, finance, operate, maintain concession of the University of Idaho Utility System, which included a $225 million up-front payment to the University following a competitive and other representations of short-listed bidders for utility concessions at the University of Iowa and the University of Florida, including the world’s leading energy and infrastructure companies.

Education

• University of Virginia School of Law

  JD

  2003 — 2006

• University of Virginia

  B.A, Political and Social Thought

  2000 — 2003

Skills

• Legal Assistance
• Criminal Law
• Military
• Government
• International Relations
• Civil Litigation
• Legal Research
• Legal Writing
• Litigation
• Energy
• Legal Advice
• Appeals
• Commercial Litigation
• Corporate Law
• National Security
• Courts