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John T. Kelly

Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A.
  • Recognized Since:
    2021
  • Recognized in:
    Public Finance Law
  • Law School:
    Seton Hall University
  • Lawyer Page:
    https://www.wilentz.com/busine...
  • Website:
    https://www.wilentz.com
  • E-mail:
    jkelly@wilentz.com
  • Location:
    90 Woodbridge Center Drive, Suite 900
    Woodbridge, NJ 07095-0958
John T. Kelly is a shareholder on the Public Finance team at Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A., concentrating his practice in public and corporate finance transactions. Mr. Kelly has participated in numerous financings completed by numerous cities, counties, agencies, authorities and other political subdivisions in the State of New Jersey and elsewhere throughout the nation.Mr. Kelly has served as bond counsel, underwriters’ counsel, disclosure counsel, general counsel and trustee’s counsel on virtually every type of tax-exempt and taxable financing completed in the public finance market, including numerous forms of revenue bonds and lease/lease-purchase financings, variable rate demand bonds, auction rate securities, commercial paper programs, general obligation bonds, tax and revenue anticipation notes, pooled loan transactions and asset-backed securitization financings. He has extensive experience representing governmental and related entities in connection with interest rate swap agreements, call rights and other derivative financial instruments.
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John T. Kelly is a shareholder on the Public Finance team at Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A., concentrating his practice in public and corporate finance transactions. Mr. Kelly has participated in numerous financings completed by numerous cities, counties, agencies, authorities and other political subdivisions in the State of New Jersey and elsewhere throughout the nation.Mr. Kelly has served as bond counsel, underwriters’ counsel, disclosure counsel, general counsel and trustee’s counsel on virtually every type of tax-exempt and taxable financing completed in the public finance market, including numerous forms of revenue bonds and lease/lease-purchase financings, variable rate demand bonds, auction rate securities, commercial paper programs, general obligation bonds, tax and revenue anticipation notes, pooled loan transactions and asset-backed securitization financings. He has extensive experience representing governmental and related entities in connection with interest rate swap agreements, call rights and other derivative financial instruments.
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Education:

  • Pennsylvania State University, B.A.
  • Seton Hall University , J.D.

Bar Admissions:

  • New Jersey, New Jersey, 1982
  • New York, New York, 1983
 

Court Admissions:

  • U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for work in:

  • Public Finance Law
 

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Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A.
https://www.wilentz.com
 
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90 Woodbridge Center Drive, Suite 900
Woodbridge, NJ 07095-0958
(732) 636.8000
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