Nossaman grows & Faneuil gets former FTE heavy Scot Orman (PERSONNEL)

Nossaman's growing. The LA-based firm of lawyers and lobbyists (L&Ls) specializing in toll road law and lobbying that made do with three or four L&Ls in Washington DC has capitulated to the inevitable, and decided to develop some real clout here in the national capital area. It now has about 25 L&Ls here.

The 130 L&L company merged with or took over the 20 L&L firm O'Connor & Hannan effective the beginning of the month. In DC the name Nossaman LLP/O'Connor & Hannan will be used because here the larger O'Connor & Hannon tail will wag the the bigger dog.

Elsewhere the firm will be just Nossaman LLC as compared to the former official name of Nossaman Gunther Knox & Elliot LLP though in accord with our stingy-on-name-length style as far as we were concerned they were always just Nossaman in TOLLROADSnews.

They celebrated the merger with a new logo - which to our eye is quite elegant compared to the clunker they had before.

Karen Hedlund longtime head of the Northern Virginia office of Nossaman says they are "excited" about the additional talent and lawyerly firepower now with the firm.

The idea of the merger, she says, grew out of working together on several joint proposals that the firms made when they were separate. Each seemed to have capabilities the other lacked, so they were a natural fit.

In writing concession contracts Nossman generally work on behalf of the concessionee side - the public side of PPPs. The company has smaller offices in Austin TX, San Francisco, Orange Co  and Sacramento CA, and Seattle WA.

Orman to Faneuil

Scot Orman former senior manager at the state's Florida Turnpike Enterprise has been appointed VP Florida Operations at Faneuil Inc which provides toll collection and electronic toll support services to FTE under longterm contracts. Orman spent 16 months as an independent IT consultant between leaving FTE and getting the Faneuil job. At FTE Orman was one of the most senior officers in implementation of SunPass electronic tolling from 1998 onward.

Faneuil though having nothing to do with Boston MA take their name from Faneuil Hall the 1742 meeting and market building in Boston where the first rallies met to organize  resistance to British taxes. The building was named after a wealthy merchant Peter Faneuil who built it.

Faneuil use the famous Boston building's steeple as their logo. There must be some history to how a largely Canadian-owned company got be so patriotically American in their imagery.

CORRECTION: Faneuil Inc has not been Canadian owned since February 2007 when it was bought by New York businessman Ronald Perelman.

see http://www.tollroadsnews.com/node/3806

The Toll Group has nothing to do with tolls, only Tolls

We stumbled across The Toll Group a business in Chicago, and thought "Oh Ah, someone else we should know, but don't...." Turns out however The Toll Group has nothing to do with tolls or tolling, but does consulting to retailers.

The founders however had the splendid last name Toll - founders were Mike Toll (died 2004) and his wife Kathi Toll who now runs the non-toll Toll business (see pic nearby)

IBTTA should give Kathi Tolls honorary membership.

see http://www.thetollgroup.com/?ref=founders

TOLLROADSnews 2008-07-27  CORRECTION: 2008-10-29