Ohio

Squire Patton Boggs, a leading muni bond firm, is merging with the San Francisco-based international litigation firm of Carroll, Burdick & McDonough.

The Midwest lagged the national uptick in issuance last year as the conservative region did take advantage of low interest rates to refund debt but held tight the purse strings on new money borrowing.

Moody's Investors Service slashed Ohio-based Cardinal Local School District's rating down to junk grade following the district's default on a December 2015 bond payment.

Ohio plans to price $288 million of high-grade general obligation bonds next week.

Chicago-based investment bank William Blair is moving into Ohio by hiring of a team of veteran public finance bankers from Fifth Third Securities.

Cleveland expects $17 million in savings on its $151 million refunding issue for Cleveland Hopkins International Airport this week.

Moody's Investors Service has placed the ratings of eleven local government credits in Indiana and Ohio on review with the rating direction uncertain as analysts await updated financial data from the group.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich's signing of legislation that partially restores an expiring school funding revenue source is a credit positive for 75 school districts, Moody's Investors Service said.

Standard & Poor's stripped Ohio-based Alliance Community Hospital of its investment grade rating based on revised stand-alone, acute-care hospital criteria.

Cleveland Hopkins International Airport’s $60 million of ongoing terminal and parking projects are on time and on budget, airport officials told the City Council in a progress report Nov. 18.

Voters across the Midwest elected new leaders, embraced the borrowing pleas of some school districts while nixing others, and rejected a controversial marijuana initiative in one state.

Cuyahoga County, Ohio would borrow up to $65 million to finance upgrades to the venues of Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Indians and the National Basketball Association’s Cleveland Cavaliers

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf joined a three-year cooperation agreement with West Virginia and Ohio to collaborate on areas critical to maximizing shale gas region growth.

After 12 years in Columbus, Megan Kilgore is “moving across the table,” taking a job at the firm, Umbaugh, that is the city’s financial advisor.

Cincinnati is nearing a historic agreement to remedy its long-standing pension shortfall that sparked downgrades and years of court battles with retirees and unions.

Ohio's Promedica Health is bringing $320 million of low double-A rated hospital bonds to market Thursday, a day after publishing a supplement to bond documents informing investors of a potential merger in the works.

Columbus-based Umbaugh has acquired Prism Municipal Advisors, a well-known Ohio financial advisory firm.

Ohio state Sen. Joe Schiavoni wants to ask voters for authorization to borrow up to $1 billion of bonds to finance sewer and water projects across the state.

Former Ohio Deputy Treasurer and Chicago Comptroller Amer Ahmad was been extradited to the United States from Pakistan to serve a 15-year prison term for his role in a kickback scandal involving state investment business at the Ohio treasurer's office.

A federal judge this week sided with Ohio when he dismissed a lawsuit challenging the use of Ohio Turnpike toll revenue to fund projects that aren't on the turnpike itself.