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Practice/Industry Groups:
Public Sector
Public Finance
Higher Education, Chair
Project Finance
Green Strategies
Caleb Bell is a member of the Public Finance Group, the Project Finance Group, the Public Sector Group, and Chair of the Higher Education Group. Caleb’s practice emphasizes local government bond finance, community-based economic development, higher education finance, and energy finance. He has assisted local governments, underwriters, and developers structure taxable and tax-exempt financings, tax increment financings, and community development authority financings. He has advised clients on a variety of Ohio’s economic development programs, including TIFs, urban renewal programs, new community authority programs, community reinvestment area abatements, joint economic development districts, and port authority projects. Caleb also has experience in energy finance, serving as gas supplier’s counsel, underwriter’s counsel, and cities' special energy Counsel in several natural gas prepayment bond financings.
Representative Experience
Bond counsel to the State of Ohio and Ohio municipalities, townships, school districts, and other governmental issuers for general obligation and special obligation bond and note transactions
Underwriter’s counsel for financings of the State of Ohio, municipalities, port authorities and other governmental issuers
Tax increment financing counsel on a variety of TIF projects
Bond counsel and special counsel in economic development matters, including tax increment financing, urban renewal programs, community reinvestment area abatements, joint economic development districts, and new community authority programs
Bond counsel for public university bond financings
General counsel to economic development entities and special purpose districts, including new community authorities, special improvement districts, joint recreation districts, and regional councils of government
Gas supplier’s counsel in two natural gas prepayment bond financings where over $1 billion of bonds are being issued to prepay a 30-year supply of natural gas for municipal purchasers and Underwriter’s Counsel and City’s Special Energy Counsel in a natural gas prepayment bond financing where over $300 million in bonds were issued to prepay a 30-year supply of natural gas for an Ohio port authority and municipality
Community and Professional Activities
Member, American Bar Association
Member, National Association of Bond Lawyers
Associate Member, Ohio Association of College and University Business Officers
Member, Otterbein College Alumni Association, 2004 – Present
Former Trustee, Otterbein College Board of Trustees, 2002 – 2004
Former Member, Westerville Area Chamber of Commerce, Government Relations Committee, Westerville, Ohio, 2006 – 2007
Graduate, Leadership Westerville, Ohio, Class of 2006
White House Intern, Office of the Senior Advisor to the President, Washington, D.C., Fall 2001
Publications
Ohio Senate Bill 223 Would Expand List of Qualifying "Special Energy Improvement Projects", Bricker & Eckler, February 2010
Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Policy Framework Developed to Assist Local Governments Implement PACE Financing Programs, Bricker & Eckler, February 2010
Ohio House Bill 1 Allows Municipal and Township Financing of Solar Energy Projects, Bricker & Eckler Green Strategies Bulletin, July 2009
Issuers of Municipal Securities Required to File Disclosure Documents with MSRB’s New EMMA Data Service, Bricker & Eckler Client Bulletin, May 2009
US Department of Energy Announces Block Grant Program Allocations, Ohio Municipal Service, March/April 2009
Introduction to the Red Flag Rules For Colleges and Universities, Bricker & Eckler Client Bulletin, February 2009
Transportation, Logistics and Distribution Stimulus Money Available, Bricker & Eckler Green Strategies Bulletin, November 2008
State of Ohio Announces Criteria for Distribution of $150 Million Jobs Stimulus Program Dollars, Bricker & Eckler Client Bulletin, October 2008
Ohio Law Encourages Economic Development Through Investment in Key Industries, Bricker & Eckler Client Bulletin, July 2008
IRS Reminds Charities of Prohibition on Election Activity, Bricker & Eckler Client Bulletin, October 2007
Contributor, Ohio Municipal Service, West Publishing
Contributor, Local Government Law – County, West Publishing
Contributor, Local Government Law – Township, West Publishing
Education
Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., cum laude 2007) Dean's Scholar; First Place in 2005 Georgetown Negotiation Competition; Fifth Place in 2006 International Chamber of Commerce Mediation Competition
Otterbein College (B.S., economics and political science, magna cum laude with honors, 2004)
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