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Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP is starting a new infrastructure advisory business and has named two former BDO advisers to lead the team.
Taft Infrastructure Advisors will be based in Washington, D.C., and will complement Taft’s public infrastructure law group, led by Indianapolis partner Tom John, the law firm said.
Heading up the new independent affiliated business will be principals Seth Miller Gabriel and Umer Yaqub.
Previously, Miller Gabriel co-led BDO’s infrastructure and public-private partnership team. Prior to that, he served as director of programs and initiatives at the Association for the Improvement of American Infrastructure, the national trade association in the U.S. dedicated to education and support to the public sector on public-private partnerships.
Yaqub was the practice co-leader for BDO’s infrastructure advisory and partnership team and advised both public and private sector clients on the development and execution of infrastructure projects.
Taft Infrastructure Advisors plans to serve many infrastructure sectors, including real estate and housing, energy, water, transportation and transit, broadband, telecommunications, and social infrastructure.
Ohio-founded Taft has the second-largest presence of any law firm in the Indianapolis area with 172 attorneys, according to Indianapolis Business Journal research.
The firm will have more than 1,000 attorneys spanning from Washington, D.C., to the Mountain West once it completes the addition of Sherman & Howard LLC’s 125 attorneys in the Denver area at the end of this year.
Robert Hicks, the law firm’s chairman and managing partner, is based in Indianapolis.
This article first appeared in The Indiana Lawyer.
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