Profile
Jéan E. Wilson is Managing Shareholder of the Orlando office and Chair of the firm's Orlando and Atlanta Public Finance and Infrastructure Practices. Jéan is an infrastructure finance attorney with a focus on disclosure and municipal securities issues, economic development, and public-private infrastructure projects. Jéan has broad experience as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, underwriters' counsel, bank counsel, trustee's counsel, borrower's counsel and purchasers' counsel in various types of tax-exempt and taxable financings, including housing, transportation, public utilities, general obligation, sales tax, revenue and tourist development tax issues, as well as tax increment, industrial development and downtown redevelopment financings.
Capabilities
Experience
- Served as bond counsel, disclosure counsel or issuer's counsel on bond issues for various entities, including: City of Atlanta, City of Jacksonville, City of Orlando, City of Memphis, Atlanta Development Authority (Invest Atlanta), Canaveral Port Authority, Miami-Dade County, Orange County, Broward County, Orlando Utilities Commission, Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority, Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, Orange County Industrial Development Authority, Florida Housing Finance Corporation, Jacksonville Housing Finance Authority, Housing Finance Authority of Broward County, Orange County Housing Finance Authority, Orlando Housing Authority and the Tampa Housing Authority.
- Acted as lead disclosure counsel in connection with the issuance of over $6 billion of airport revenue bonds for the City of Atlanta issued to finance and refinance the massive capital improvement program at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
- Acted as lead disclosure counsel in connection with a $1 billion transaction for the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority.
- Acted as lead disclosure counsel in connection with a $369 million City of Atlanta general obligation transaction which the City designated as "Social Bonds."
- Acted as independent transaction counsel to the City of St. Louis in evaluating and analyzing P3 proposals for the St. Louis Lambert International Airport and reviewing and providing advice with respect to developing the transaction documents, including any proposed lease agreement for the airport, airline use agreements with the airlines operating at the airport, and airport operating standards.
Recognition & Leadership
- Elected, Paul C. Perkins Bar Association Hall of Fame, 2024
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Public Finance Law, 2007-2025
- Listed, Thomson Reuters, "Stand-Out Lawyers," 2023-2024
- Listed, Lawdragon, 500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers, 2024
- Listed, Florida Trend magazine, "Florida 500," 2024
- Listed, Florida Trend magazine, "Legal Elite," Notable Managing Partners, 2023
- Team Member, a Law360 "Real Estate Practice Group of the Year," 2023
- Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, Florida Super Lawyers, 2006-2021
- Listed, Chambers USA Guide, 2007-2019
- Recognized, The National Black Lawyers, "Top 100 in Florida," 2023
- Nominated, ONYX magazine, "Black Men Honors," 2019
- Listed, Orlando magazine, "The Best Lawyers in Orlando," 2010
- Voted, Orlando magazine, "One of the Six Most Respected and Admired Lawyers in Orlando," December 1997
- Rated, AV Preeminent®0 out of 5.0
- Board Member, Central Florida Leadership Academy
- Board Member, Florida A&M University College of Law Dean’s Advisory Council
- Former Member, Fifth District Court of Appeal, Judicial Nominating Commission
- Former Member, Florida Chamber of Commerce, Board of Directors, Executive Committee
- Former Member, Senator Bob Graham's Federal Judicial Nominating Commission
- Former Member, The Florida Bar, Committee on Equal Opportunities in the Profession
- Past president of the Paul C. Perkins Bar Association and Florida Chapter of the National Bar Association
- Previously served as a member of the Board of Valencia Community College Foundation, African American Chamber of Commerce of Central Florida and the YMCA Black Achievers Program
Credentials
Education
- J.D., with honors, University of Florida Levin College of Law
- B.S., Finance, with honors, DePaul University
Admissions
- Florida