John Merchant is a Partner for Dinsmore & Shohl LLP. John co-chairs Dinsmore’s Public Finance Practice Group.
Depth and variation describe the public finance practice of John Merchant over the past 35 years.
John has participated in economic development, health care and traditional issue transactions (including schools and universities, transportation, water and sewer projects) and has served as bond, underwriter, disclosure, and bank counsel for the issuance of tax-exempt and taxable bonds, notes and lease obligations in transactions throughout Ohio and Kentucky.
John has served as bond and/or disclosure counsel for general obligation, economic development revenue, and water revenue bond issues of the City of Cincinnati since 2006.
John has served as bond and/or disclosure counsel for the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government for every general obligation and sewer revenue bond issue since 2008. In 2017, he led the Dinsmore team which was selected as bond and disclosure counsel for the City of Dayton, Ohio.
As bond, underwriter, and/or bank counsel for health care & other 501(c)(3) conduit transactions, John has experience with financing structures involving master trust indentures, leases, and financing agreements for private placements.
