Johnny Hutchinson focuses his practice on taxation matters. He has significant experience in tax issues relating to public finance. Johnny’s experience includes serving as bond counsel for governmental use, qualified 501(c)(3) bond and other conduit financings. Financings to which he has devoted substantial time include more than US$2 billion dollars in financings for one of the world’s largest healthcare providers, highly structured fiberoptic network financings and a number of healthcare and university financings throughout the country. He also has served as borrower’s counsel on a variety of transactions including complex multistate financings for one of the nation’s largest waste management firms.

Johnny has significant experience representing issuers before the IRS in audits of tax exempt bond issues of varying types. He also has significant experience representing issuers submitting requests to the IRS Voluntary Closing Agreement Program.

Johnny is the author of “Tax Strategy Patents After the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act” published in the Spring 2012 (Vol. 29, Number 3) issue of Journal of Taxation of Investments. He was also the principal author of Squire Sanders’ analysis of the public finance provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009, better known as the “Stimulus.” He is also a co-author of a chapter on the tax treatment of brownfield remediation expenditures appearing in Brownfields: A Comprehensive Guide to Redeveloping Contaminated Property. Johnny is active as a speaker at events held by a variety of public finance organizations and at the Cleveland Tax Institute.

Johnny joined Squire Sanders, where he was a summer associate, directly from law school. He also held a judicial externship with The Honorable Lesley Brooks Wells of the US District Court, Northern District of Ohio.

Johnny is a member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers, American Bar Association, Ohio State Bar Association and Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association.