Conner H. Judson

Conner is an Associate Attorney with Calfee’s Real Estate and Corporate and Finance practice groups.

Conner joined Calfee in 2024 after serving as a Summer Associate in 2021 and 2022.

Conner earned his J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in 2023. During this time, he was an online editor for the Ohio State Law Journal and authored a student commentary selected for publication.

Prior to law school, Conner gained experience working for several prominent commercial real estate firms in the Cleveland area.

Honors & Recognitions

CALI Awards for Excellence in Legal Analysis and Writing I and II and Transactional Practice

Education

J.D., magna cum laude, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, 2023

B.A., History, cum laude, Connecticut College, 2019

Experience

• Calfee has drafted and negotiated various lease agreements, subleases, easements and other real estate agreements across a publicly traded, Fortune 500 global consumer products company client's portfolio of companies. Calfee represented the client in the disposition and short-term leaseback of its Southeastern U.S. headquarters facility. This representation included drafting and negotiating a purchase and sale agreement, a lease agreement, a deed, and ancillary closing documents. Our department handled negotiations for a Sublease with the United States Postal Service for a warehouse containing more than 1 million square feet of space in the Midwest. (2024-2025)
• Calfee served as underwriter’s counsel for the issuance of approximately $100 million of refunding certificates of participation. This refinancing of a public-private partnership resulted in interest cost savings for taxpayers and levelled debt service for future years, allowing for more stable debt service payments.
• Calfee served as underwriter's counsel for the issuance of special obligation income tax revenue bonds secured by income tax revenues of the municipality to finance a new administrative building, police department and community center. (2025)
• Calfee served as underwriter's counsel in connection with the issuance of revenue bonds to assist local communities in financing improvements to water systems. (2025)
• Calfee served as underwriter's counsel in the sale of refunding bonds for the benefit of an Ohio college, including the refinancing of a line of credit provided to the college to finance capital improvements to the campus with the proceeds of tax-exempt debt, thereby saving the college money due to the tax-exempt nature of the refunding debt. (2025)
• Calfee served as underwriter's counsel in connection with the issuance of bonds by a port authority to finance a mixed-use development. (2025)
• Calfee served as exclusive counsel to a multi-billion private equity firm client in its 2024 sale of all of the equity interests of a portfolio company to a global private equity firm.
• Calfee served as underwriter's counsel to a publicly traded Fortune 500 bank for bonds issued by a Midwestern county and secured by non-tax revenues of the county to finance a portion of a museum's renovation and expansion; the project is seen as a catalyst for additional development of the lakefront area where the museum is located. (2024)

Publications

• Co-author, "The Increasing Utility of AI in M&A Transactions," Crain’s Cleveland Business (January 2026)