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Practice/Industry Groups:
Bond, Structured & Public Finance
Investment Banking & Structured Finance
Public Sector
Real Estate
Emmett Kelly is a partner in the bond, structured & public finance practice group of Bricker & Eckler
LLP and practices in the areas of public finance and public law, emphasizing local government law, and general obligation and public purpose revenue bond financing and representation of public entity developers in economic development matters.
Representative Experience
Bond counsel for Ohio’s first new community authority public offering to be structured without a developer letter of credit (used to finance infrastructure improvements such as roads, water, sewer, etc.)
Bond and special counsel for numerous economic development matters, including tax increment financing, joint enterprise development districts, enterprise zones, and community reinvestment area
Counsel to economic development entities such as community improvement corporations, new community authorities, regional planning commissions, and port authorities on general, economic development and financing matters
Bond and underwriter's counsel for general obligation, public purpose revenue bond and note financings for municipalities, school districts and other political subdivisions Serves as bond, underwriter's and disclosure counsel for both tax-exempt and taxable port authority bond fund programs and development transactions
Bond counsel for counties with sanitary sewer district special assessment projects
General counsel assistance to political subdivisions, authorities and agencies
Community and Professional Activities
President, Capital University Law School Alumni Board
Member, Columbus, Ohio State, and American Bar Associations
Member, Board of Directors, The Buckeye Ranch Foundation
Company Coordinator, Big Brothers/Big Sisters- Bowl for Kids Sake
Volunteer, Rebuilding Together Columbus
Volunteer, Columbus Public Schools 2003 graduate, Leadership Columbus Program
Coach, Upper Arlington Youth Lacrosse and Football Associations
Awards and Recognitions
Education
Hobart College (B.A., 1993)
Capital University (J.D., magna cum laude, 1999); Staff, Capital University Law School Law Review; Order of the Curia; President, Capital University Law School Student Bar Association (1998-1999)
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