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Forum Overview
Dates: November 5 - 7, 2025
Location: Nashville, TN
The Steering Committee welcomes 48 leading lawyers in the U.S. infrastructure sector to discuss current developments and trends, with a focus on both legal and broader market perspectives. Participants include senior counsel from private law firms, in-house legal teams, the public sector, and procuring authorities.
Using candid, seminar-style discussion, the group shares experiences from their varied jurisdictions and engages in meaningful dialogue on the most pressing issues facing the industry.
2025 Steering Committee
Committee Chair
Adam Giuliano’s practice focuses on the procurement, financing, construction, operations, and maintenance of infrastructure projects. His experience includes work on matters involving highways, roads, bridges and tunnels, parking, transit, commuter rail and high-speed rail, airports, ports, water and wastewater, schools, real estate, district and transit-oriented development, telecommunications, energy and power generation, renewables, and natural resources. He also has experience with asset and business purchases and sales.
Committee Members
Sean Boyd is a Managing Director with Ernst & Young Infrastructure Advisors, LLC. Sean provides financial, commercial and strategic advisory services to State and Local government clients across the US.
Sean brings deep and broad private sector experience to EYIA’s public sector clients. Prior to joining EYIA, Sean served on the management team for Skanska’s US Infrastructure Development unit, as well as serving as consortium Project Director leading large teams on complex deals. Whilst at Skanska, Sean led bidding teams for LAX APM P3, Purple Line P3, unsolicited proposals to LA Metro, and several energy projects. Sean brings a particular interest in optimizing project development processes, selection of appropriate delivery methods, improvement of project risk allocation and mitigation, supporting executive strategy and decision-making, and striving to create infrastructure transactions that can be predictable and deliverable for all involved.
Sean’s career began in corporate law. Before Skanska, Sean worked as an English solicitor in the Banking and Project Finance practice of Allen & Overy LLP in both London and New York, advising infrastructure funds and contractor-developers on infrastructure projects across Europe, North America and the Middle East.
Sean received his Master’s in Financial Strategy from Said Business School, Oxford University, his legal practice qualification at the Inns of Court School of Law (London), and his undergraduate law degree at the University of West London.
Christy Coan is an Assistant Attorney General and Assistant Counsel for the Alabama Department of Transportation.
Christy handles a variety of complex civil law matters on behalf of the Department ranging from employment to inverse condemnation and serves as the primary in-house counsel for the Mobile River Bridge and Bayway project.
Christy’s background also includes prior experience as a teacher and law librarian.
Anita Girdhari Partner / New York Anita Girdhari is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of Gibson Dunn’s Projects and Infrastructure, Capital Markets, Latin America, and Power and Renewables Practice Groups. Ms. Girdhari’s practice focuses on infrastructure projects, with substantial experience in public-private partnerships and related concessions or leases of infrastructure assets between public grantors and private sector developers and operators, with particular expertise in transportation infrastructure, including roads, bridges, airports, ports and rail assets, social infrastructure, water assets, digital infrastructure and renewable energy. She also routinely advises on related agreements including design and construction contracts, O&M agreements, interface arrangements and services contracts. Ms. Girdhari also has significant experience working with private and bi-lateral arrangements in this space as well. Her experience covers project procurement, concession and lease documentation, and project finance, including various forms of project bonds and loan financings, as well as secondary market acquisitions and divestiture transactions. She also handles disputes, terminations and ongoing corporate governance for the portfolio companies and sponsors. She also has significant regional expertise working on various types of financing transactions in Latin America. Ms. Girdhari is globally and nationally ranked Band 2 in Projects: PPP by Chambers and Partners and is described as “incredibly incisive and focused,” “really diligent, thoughtful and super responsive,” and notes that she “does a great job at cutting through the difficult issues.” She has been named a Law360“Rising Star” in the areas of Project Finance and Transportation. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Ms. Girdhari was an associate at White & Case. She graduated from New York University School of Law in 2005 and from Macalester College in 2002. She is fluent in Spanish.
Mr. Judah Gluckman is an attorney with experience serving public and private sector clients across infrastructure sectors, with expertise in public-private partnerships (P3), real estate, and economic development, including policy and program development, procurement, and implementation phases.
He currently serves as the Commercial Director for Amtrak’s $6 billion Frederick Douglass Tunnel Program, that will modernize a critical bottleneck in the Northeast Corridor. Prior to that, he advised public and private sector clients on a range of alternative delivery projects in the transportation, energy and real estate sectors as a Vice President in WSP’s Advisory Services group. Prior to WSP, Judah worked for the District of Columbia government, where he served as Deputy Director and Counsel of the Office of Public-Private Partnerships, an agency he helped create as principal drafter of its enabling legislation and grew from a staff of two to eight with a pipeline that includes a smart lighting network, joint development projects, and many other assets. Before standing up Office of Public-Private Partnerships, he was Deputy Director in the Office of Policy and Legislative Affairs for Mayor Muriel Bowser, where he drafted regulations and implemented policies regarding a range of transportation, real estate, and other matters.
Judah also served as the Mayor’s principal staffer when she served on the WMATA Board and sat on the jurisdictional coordinating committee (JCC). Prior to joining the government, he worked on telecommunications regulatory matters and appellate litigation for Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, and Todd, Evans and Figel. He served as a Metcalf Policy Fellow and Assistant to the Chief of Staff for Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. When he is not serving clients on critical infrastructure projects, he teaches a graduate-level course on public-private partnerships at the American University School of Public Affairs and is President Emeritus of the Young Professionals in Infrastructure (YPI).
Yukiko Kojima offers clients a unique experience with highly innovative alternative delivery strategies for large-scale infrastructure projects in the United States because of her deep knowledge of national best practices as well as Canada’s mature P3 market. She primarily advises public agencies in the use of methods such as P3 and design-build but also represents private-sector participants on select projects. She is Chambers-rated nationally in the field of P3s.
Mark has over seven years of P3 transportation experience both at the developer level and the concession level. He spent three years at Cintra US working on business development and global developer services issues, focused on tolling. After working in project procurement for Cintra’s US headquarters, Mark represented the Developer in the NCDOT I-77 HOT Lanes Project during the construction and ramp-up phases. Mark helped navigate the project through sixteen change orders, eight amendments, and one lawsuit. While some construction work is still being performed, the project is open to the public and providing transportation choices for North Carolina motorists. With this milestone, Mark has recently returned to Cintra US in the business development space.
Prior to working for Cintra, Mark represented corporate M&A and private equity clients.
Michael Pikiel represents sponsors, developers, investors, lenders, and underwriters in a wide range of projects and complex finance transactions, including project financings and acquisition financings. He also has significant experience with public-private partnerships (PPP). Mike was selected as a David Rockefeller Fellow for the Class of 2015-2016 by the Partnership for New York City, an organization comprised of New York City’s chief executives from the city’s largest private sector employers that is focused on business and corporate civic engagement and leadership.
Forum Director
Caity is an MBA graduate from the Schulich School of Business in Toronto.
Prior to joining Cambridge Forums, she worked for the Government of Canada in various communications, website and research analyst positions. She has a passion for continuous learning, strategy development and relationship building.
In her spare time, Caity enjoys hiking, being in nature and spending time with her Australian Shepherd pup.
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