Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP is a full-service, corporate law firm with attorneys located in Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, New York, and Washington, D.C. As a founding member of Lex Mundi, the firm offers national and international representation through a network of independent law firms with 22,000 attorneys in more than 125 countries. Since 1903, Calfee’s mission has been to provide meaningful legal and business counsel in matters that are critical to the success of its clients. Calfee lawyers routinely represent a wide spectrum of private and public organizations – from emerging companies to Fortune 500 corporations – as well as government entities, nonprofit organizations, trade associations, and individuals.

Calfee’s Corporate and Finance practice group handles a significant number of complex and sophisticated business and financial transactions for clients across the country and globally. The firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions, Divestitures, and Sales practice annually consummates 60-75 M&A transactions, led by an active private equity client base and a significant roster of public and significant privately held corporate clients. Calfee also has a full range of corporate governance, SEC reporting and compliance, and capital markets services and a wealth of experience representing public companies, including NYSE and NASDAQ-listed issuers. Calfee has represented issuers and underwriters in more than 230 public and Rule 144A offerings since 1981. In addition, Calfee has a strong history of representing financial services providers such as banks, broker-dealers, and investment advisers.

Calfee’s Commercial Lending attorneys represent clients in all aspects of domestic and international transactions, financings, and debt structures. The firm counsels financial institutions and borrowers in analyzing, structuring, documenting, and negotiating all aspects of finance in private, public, syndicated, international, and governmental settings. Calfee assists companies in developing and structuring the commercial aspects of domestic and international business relationships including development projects, sales, distribution arrangements, and multinational ventures. Calfee's Public Finance attorneys cover the entire range of governmental borrowings, from routine general obligation bonds and notes of local cities and villages to projects as complex and unique as the redevelopment of inner-ring suburbs, urban hotels and parking facilities, student housing, and sports facilities and the transformation of a large public hospital. The practice also encompasses economic development incentives and Public / Private Partnership law services.