Benjamin A. Kelley is an associate in the Real Estate Department and a member of the Real Estate Finance Group and Transactional Finance Group. Mr. Kelley represents both lenders and borrowers in commercial real estate and multifamily housing finance transactions and has acted as underwriter's counsel in public bond issuances. He also has experience drafting general corporate organizational documents, authorizing resolutions, and providing opinion letters on behalf of borrowers in real estate finance transactions.
Before joining Ballard Spahr as an associate, Mr. Kelley clerked in the firm's Real Estate Department for two and a half years, where he assisted in complex real estate finance transactions, bond transactions, mixed-use development projects, commercial leasing matters, and general corporate organizational matters.
Pro Bono Experience
Mr. Kelley worked with a team of Ballard Spahr attorneys and the Maryland ACLU in challenging the constitutionality of an Elkton, Maryland, loitering law on behalf of eight homeless individuals whose personal effects were destroyed when the town bulldozed the campsite where they were living. On September 5, 2007, Elkton's town council repealed the loitering law.