Steve Park

Steve T. Park

Partner
Philadelphia

Steve T. Park is a co-leader of the firm’s P3/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, 2021-2024

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.

Credentials 

Education

University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D. 2006)

Dartmouth College (B.A. 1998)

Languages

Korean

Admissions

Pennsylvania