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Jason F. Hellwig

Partner

New York

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In his more than 20 years of practice, Jason has built a multifaceted, cross-border project and corporate finance practice with a focus on the construction or renovation of sports stadia and arenas and other large infrastructure projects worldwide.

His experience includes capital markets transactions, including private securities offerings, secured lending, project finance, sports finance, structured finance, and lease finance.

Jason has represented both issuers of, and institutional investors purchasing, privately placed debt and equity securities in a variety of sports finance, project finance, structured finance, and lease finance transactions. Such transactions have included secured and unsecured financings for the construction or renovation of professional sports stadiums (including Yankee Stadium, Dodger Stadium, SoFi Stadium, Santiago Bernabéu Stadium (Real Madrid), Climate Pledge Arena (Seattle Kraken), UBS Arena (NY Islanders), Moody Center (University of Texas), BMO Stadium (LAFC), Levi’s Stadium (San Francisco 49ers), Q2 Stadium (Austin FC), the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Rogers Place (Edmonton Oilers), Exploria Stadium (Orlando City SC); and KC Current Stadium); performance venues (including MSG Sphere (Las Vegas), YouTube Theater (Los Angeles), and Co-op Live (Manchester, UK)); office campuses and shopping centers; undersea vehicular tunnels, ports, and airport terminals in Europe; wind, solar, and hydro projects in the US, Canada, and Europe; natural gas pipelines; and the financing, acquisition, and disposition of aircraft, vessels (including LNG tankers, and escort and service vessels relating to offshore wind and petroleum exploration), and a wide variety of cogeneration projects.

Jason has also represented both borrowers and lenders in a variety of investment grade and sub-investment grade secured lending transactions. His structured finance experience includes linked-note and securitization transactions tied to both domestic and foreign credits and several financings dependent on revenue streams from power purchase and other off take contracts and media rights contracts. 

Key Matters

Jason’s representative clients have included: JPMorgan; Oak View Group; The Bank of Nova Scotia; Morgan Stanley; Goldman Sachs; UBS; Wells Fargo Bank, National Association; The Los Angeles Dodgers/Guggenheim Baseball Management; Commonwealth Bank of Australia; National Bank of Canada; Barclays; Royal Bank of Canada; BNP Paribas; SMBC; Millennium Pipeline Company, L.L.C.; one of the largest global financial services companies and numerous insurance companies and other institutional investors active in the private placement market.

Recent Experience
£350m Everton Stadium Private Placement
Acquisition Financing of Occidental's Wyoming Trona Assets

  • Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Global Entertainment, Sports & Media Lawyers,” Recognized for Project & Corporate Finance - Sports Stadia (2025)
  • The Legal 500 US, Recognized as a “Key Lawyer” in the areas of Finance: Project Finance -  Energy and Power - Infrastructure and PPP from 2021–2024 and Industry Focus: Sport (2024)
  • IFLR1000, Recognized in Project Finance (2023–2024)

Jason is a Fellow of the American College of Investment Counsel. Jason has also worked to represent a variety of pro bono clients including a Tibetan refugee’s successful application for asylum on the grounds of political and religious discrimination.

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Transactions
Project Finance
Debt Finance
Finance
Sports
Energy
Power & Transmission
Infrastructure
Financial Services
Insurance

Key Matters

Jason’s representative clients have included: JPMorgan; Oak View Group; The Bank of Nova Scotia; Morgan Stanley; Goldman Sachs; UBS; Wells Fargo Bank, National Association; The Los Angeles Dodgers/Guggenheim Baseball Management; Commonwealth Bank of Australia; National Bank of Canada; Barclays; Royal Bank of Canada; BNP Paribas; SMBC; Millennium Pipeline Company, L.L.C.; one of the largest global financial services companies and numerous insurance companies and other institutional investors active in the private placement market.

Recent Experience
£350m Everton Stadium Private Placement
Acquisition Financing of Occidental's Wyoming Trona Assets

Credentials

Education

Jason received a B.S. in Social Change and Development and History, summa cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in 1996. He also received an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1997 and his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2000, where he was the recipient of the Mary Kelly Quackenbush Memorial Award.

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