Ryan K. Callender
Partner
Ryan Callender’s experience includes serving as bond, disclosure and underwriter’s counsel in a variety of conventional and capital market public debt financings. Ryan is experienced in general obligation debt, revenue bond debt, tax increment financing and certificates of participation.
Ryan has over 25 years of experience acting as bond, disclosure and underwriter’s counsel with a variety of local governments, including municipalities, school districts, state agencies and special districts. One of Ryan’s primary areas of focus is the structuring of water and sewer revenue debt financing. Ryan has served as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel and disclosure counsel for a variety of water and/or sewer entities throughout the country.
In addition, Ryan has experience serving as bond, disclosure and underwriter’s counsel for various state revolving funds including serving as bond counsel to the Ohio Water Development Authority for more than US$4 billion of bond, floating rate note and commercial paper issues. Ryan is also an active member of and frequent speaker for the Council of Infrastructure Financing Authorities (CIFA).
Ryan currently chairs the firm’s Municipal Disclosure and Securities Law Committee, and the firm’s Water & Wastewater group.
Ryan is an active member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers (NABL) and has served as Chair of NABL’s Essentials Workshop in 2023, and currently serves as Vice Chair of NABL’s Disclosure and Securities Law Committee.
Ryan is currently on the Board of Trustees of Great Lake Theater and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Cleveland Water Alliance.
- Serving as bond counsel for various public entities across the nation in the structuring of commercial paper and floating rate note programs.
- Serving as bond and disclosure counsel for the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority since 2007.
- Serving as bond and disclosure counsel for the Ohio Water Development Authority since 2007.
- Serving as bond and disclosure counsel for the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer and Water District since 2007.
- Serving as underwriter’s counsel in the restructuring of the revenue debt of the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans, Louisiana.
- Serving a bond counsel for the Fairfax County, Virginia Water Authority.
- Serving as bond and disclosure counsel for the Northern Integrated Supply Project in northern Colorado.
- Serving as disclosure counsel for the Denver Water Authority.
- Serving as underwriter’s counsel for various water revenue bond issuances of the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, City of Cincinnati, Ohio, the City of Annapolis, Maryland, the City of Houston, Texas and the City of Atlanta, Georgia.
- Representing many Ohio municipalities, counties and school districts in the issuance of bonds and notes.
Education
- Cleveland State University, J.D., 1999
- Miami University, B.A., 1995
Admissions
- Ohio, 1999
- District of Columbia, 2005
- Named The Best Lawyers in America 2021 Lawyer of the Year for Public Finance Law in Cleveland
- Named The Best Lawyers in America 2019 Lawyer of the Year for Banking and Finance Law in Cleveland
- Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America