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Dave Spialter is a partner with Bricker & Eckler LLP and a member of the health care group. He practices health care law, and is also involved in the firm's general corporate finance, securities and public finance practice. He is experienced in leveraged leasing, leveraged buyouts, cross-border financings, and interpretation of Ohio laws. He is also experienced in equipment financing (aircraft, rolling stock, and ocean-going vessels).
Representative Experience
Represents lessees, debt and equity participants, letter-of-credit banks and builders in leasing transactions
Represents financial institutions and borrowers in unsecured loan transactions and real estate financings
Structures hospital/physician joint ventures
Serves as underwriters' counsel, bond counsel, company counsel and issuer's counsel in numerous public offerings involving both public and private securities
Served as business counsel, member of the executive staff, and chief of the opinions section of the office of the Attorney General of Ohio (Lee Fisher) from 1992-1993; while in this position, had primary responsibility for all bond and similar financing transactions in which the Attorney General was involved
Lead attorney on diverse corporate restructurings and other sophisticated corporate transactions, including those involving the establishment of holding companies and the spin-off of subsidiaries
Community and Professional Activities
Member, Ohio State and Columbus Bar Associations
Member, American Health Lawyers Association
Trustee, Ballet Met Columbus (2000-2007); Harvard Club of Central Ohio (2001-2005, President, 2001-2003); Congregation Agudas Achim (2001-2002, 2004-2006, President, 2005-2006); Congregation Tifereth Israel (1989-1990)
Adjunct Professor, Ohio Dominican University MBA LEAD Program, Business Ethics (2005)
Adjunct Professor, Capital University School of Law, Computer Law (1984-1985)
Proficient in Russian, French, Spanish, Hebrew and Serbo-Croatian
Awards and Recognition
Listed in Who's Who in American Law (1994-95 edition)
Listed, Best Lawyers in America; The Verdict (Columbus' Best Lawyers); Ohio Super Lawyers
Listed in The Bond Buyer's Municipal Marketplace "Red Book" of Bond Counsel
Education
Harvard University (A.B. cum laude, 1974)
Columbia University (J.D., 1977); Editor, Columbia Law Review (1975-77); Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; Recipient, Carter, Ledyard & Milburn Prize; Teaching Fellow: Civil Procedure and Trade Regulation; International Fellows Program; Tutored first-year students
Attended Rutgers College (1970-71)
University of Zagreb, 1973 summer program in Serbo-Croatian
Indiana University, 1972 summer Russian institute
Completed computer crime prosecution training program of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center of the Department of the Treasury.
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