Attorney

Kyle S. Baird, Esq.

**** **** ******** **, ********* Heights, OH 44147 • 703-***-**** • ***********@*****.*** EXPERIENCE

ULMER & BERNE LLP, Cleveland, OH Dec 2018 – June 2019 Associate – Business Law Group

● Advised clients on a variety of corporate, real estate and health care transactional matters particularly involving the acquisition of skilled nursing home and assisted living facilities.

● Prepared resolutions, agreements, and various other documents for multimillion-dollar transactions involving simultaneous real estate and operations acquisitions. ROYAL BANK OF CANADA CAPITAL MARKETS, Cleveland, OH May 2018 – Dec 2018 Vice President and Counsel – Tax Credit Equity Group

● In-house counsel responsible for advising internal and external clients regarding legal issues including contract interpretation, transactions concerns, and legal developments.

● Prepared documents for complex transactions with investors involving about $1 billion dollars of tax credit equity in low income housing, historic and solar tax credits. SQUIRE PATTON BOGGS (US) LLP, Cleveland, OH Jan 2016 – Apr 2018 Associate Attorney - Public Infrastructure and Finance Group

● Bond and underwriter counsel responsible for developing financing strategies for public and private infrastructure projects across the country and advising clients regarding legal and regulatory matters.

● Structured complex financing transactions involving millions of dollars for public and private entities in a variety of areas, including governmental, multifamily housing, healthcare, higher education, and other nonprofit facilities.

● Led preparation of agreements, certificates, and other documents on dozens of transactions across the country with local housing authorities, for-profit and nonprofit developers leveraging FHA-insured loan proceeds and other federal funds with tax-exempt bonds and low-income housing tax credits. VORYS, SATER, SEYMOUR AND PEASE, LLP, Cleveland, OH Oct 2012 – Jan 2016 Associate Litigation Attorney, and Summer Associate, Summer 2011

● Civil litigation in state and federal courts, including both trial and appellate practice. Prepared trial briefs, motions, research memoranda, correspondence to opposing counsels, and discovery requests and responses.

● National coordinating counsel for a major bank. Oversaw implementation of national strategy for responding to lender liability claims by collaborating with numerous local counsel. Reviewed and approved all court filings prepared by local counsel.

● Developed litigation strategy for intellectual property claims against public company clients, prepared cross-examinations and trial exhibits, managed discovery and document productions, and prepared materials and questions for depositions.

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW May 2012

Juris Doctorate GPA: 3.5/4.0

Activities: Dillard Fellow and Editorial Board Member for Journal of Law & Politics BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY May 2009

Bachelors of Arts Political Science and Russian GPA: 3.85/4.0 Activities: Varsity Rugby

LICENSURE Admitted to Ohio Bar in 2012.

VOLUNTEER Two-Year Ecclesiastical Mission, Vladivostok, Russia July 2004 – July 2006 Missionary, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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