Brian L.Sedlak

Brian Sedlak co-leads Jones Day's Real Estate Practice worldwide and also co-leads the Firm's Energy Transition and Infrastructure initiative. He advises clients on large-scale infrastructure and industrial projects and represents Fortune 500 companies, large U.S. developers, and real estate funds with their real estate portfolios and investments. He represents the owners and financing parties of major infrastructure assets in the United States, including sports facilities, industrial plants, power generation facilities, parking facilities, and toll roads. He also has significant experience in portfolio sale-leaseback transactions; engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) agreements; joint ventures; and development of real property.

Brian has led some of the largest public-private partnership (P3) infrastructure transactions in the United States, including representing The Ohio State University for the monetization of its parking facilities for $483 million and Northeastern University's parking P3 monetization transaction. He has led numerous energy P3 transactions, including energy monetization projects for The Ohio State University (in excess of $1 billion), the University of Iowa (in excess of $1 billion), the University of Idaho (in excess of $200 million), and Henry Ford Health System in connection with a design building finance operate and maintain (DBFOM) P3 for a new central utility plant. He also has represented companies in development and construction projects for coal-fired plants, biomass facilities, mines, wind farms, and air quality control systems.

Brian is a member of The Economic Club of Chicago and a board member of the Dean's Advisory Counsel for the Department of Business and Management of Northeastern Illinois University. He also serves on the boards of MetroSquash and The Grant Park Orchestral Association.