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Conversations with Leaders Driving Innovation in Public Finance and Infrastructure

Conference | September.29.2025 - September.30.2025

Boston Marriott Long Wharf

As infrastructure needs and costs rise, public finance leaders are adapting to new policies, technologies, and investment demands. The Bond Buyer Infrastructure Conference, co-chaired by Orrick’s Christine Reynolds, brings together experts to explore innovative financing strategies for transportation, housing, water and wastewater facilities, airports, hospitals, universities, and more. Attendees will gain insights from investors and policymakers, learning how to build smarter, stronger infrastructure in a rapidly changing environment.

Matthew Neuringer will speak on the panel “AIAI P3 Bootcamp: Determining Your Project Delivery Options,” guiding participants through the legal, financial, and operational factors that influence project delivery decisions and identifying when specific models are most effective. He will also moderate the “P3 Market Growth – Opportunities, Challenges, and Incentives” panel, where industry leaders will discuss the expanding role of private capital in infrastructure projects, highlight emerging opportunities, and address challenges and incentives in the market.

Devin Brennan will moderate the “Transit: Ridership and Raising Revenues” panel, which will focus on how transit agencies are responding to the ongoing challenges in U.S. cities, including declining ridership and the need for sustainable revenue streams. This session will offer practical insights into strategies for maintaining and improving transportation infrastructure amid shifting demands and financial pressures.

Eileen Heitzler, Young Lee, Jenna Magan, Jade Turner-Bond, Steffi Chan and Joshua Bonney will also be in attendance.

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Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Public Finance
  • Revenue Bond Financing
  • Transportation Finance
  • Infrastructure
  • Health Care Finance
  • General Obligation Bonds

Christine Reynolds Partner

Portland; Seattle

Christine has more than two decades of experience in public infrastructure finance, advising on both traditional bond financings and innovative funding structures. She serves as a Vice-Chair of the Public Finance Group and on the leadership team for the Impact Finance Group.

Christine’s experience includes various general obligation and revenue bond financings, including those relating to transportation, education, healthcare, water and wastewater, economic development, urban renewal, public power and other complex and innovative social and infrastructure financings sometimes involving public-private partnerships (P3) for large transportation and utility issuers, state and local municipalities, and other for-profit and nonprofit corporations.

She has extensive knowledge and experience with disclosure requirements for municipal issuers under federal securities laws, including both initial and continuing disclosure issues, material events disclosure, public offerings, private placements and other municipal securities regulatory matters.

Christine is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars given by trade and professional organizations within the municipal finance industry, including serving as Chair for The Bond Buyer's 2022 Infrastructure Conference and Board of Directors to Women in Public Finance.

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Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure Sector
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Infrastructure
  • Transportation Finance
  • Solar Energy
  • Energy

Matthew Neuringer Partner

New York

Matthew is recognized nationally and globally by Chambers USA, where clients describe him as “smart, organized and responsive and offers really good insight on key issues” and “he is an encyclopedia of PPP and he does an excellent job of leading tricky conversations and getting to a point where all parties agree.”

Matthew has advised clients across a full spectrum of energy and infrastructure assets, including telecoms, rail, highways, airport, intermodal transit, combined heat and power, social infrastructure, and waste to energy. In Matthew's capacity as outside counsel to the Association for the Improvement of American Infrastructure (AIAI) Matthew has also provided input on various key pieces of federal, state and local governments on the sufficiency of their laws to produce P3 projects in their jurisdictions.

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Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Public Finance

Devin Brennan Partner

San Francisco; Boston

Such transactions have involved both long- and short-term, fixed and variable rate obligations, public-private partnerships (P3s), commercial paper, swaps, credit and liquidity enhancement, and revenue bonds for transportation and utility issuers, as well as a number of sizable special purpose financings. Devin has also represented multiple clients in connection with chapter 9 bankruptcies, restructurings and other workouts.

Devin is a partner in Orrick’s San Francisco and Boston offices and chairs the Firm’s Transportation Finance Group. Devin is a frequent speaker on topics in infrastructure finance, having previously served as Chair of both the Bond Buyer's California Public Finance Conference and its national Infrastructure Conference.

Devin has been a member of the Firm's Hiring and Summer Program Committees, and continues to help organize Orrick's annual summer associate surf trip to Capitola Beach. Devin is also a member of the Strategy Council for OneJustice, an organization dedicated to transforming the delivery of legal services to people in need.