Maynard & Gale P.C. is pleased to announce that Brad Cherry, Todd Cox, Leland Murphree and Kathryn Perreault have been named shareholders of the firm.

“All of these individuals have been outstanding members of our firm, and we are very pleased to have them join the shareholder ranks,” said Mark Drew, Managing Shareholder of the firm.

C. Bradley Cherry is a member of the firm’s Public Finance, Real Estate and New Markets Tax Credits practice groups. His public finance practice includes the representation as bond counsel in Alabama of cities, counties, boards of education, hospitals and health care organizations, non-profits, utility systems and other political subdivisions in a variety of tax-exempt transactions. He also has experience in all types of real estate matters, including acquisition, development, financing and leasing matters; particularly in the area of multi-family housing. Cherry is a graduate of the University of Alabama School of Law and is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers and the National Association of Bond Lawyers.

Todd H. Cox is a member of the firm’s Securities Litigation practice group, focusing primarily in the defense of brokerage firms and financial institutions against claims asserted by customers in state and federal court and in arbitration proceedings nationwide. Cox is a graduate of the Cumberland School of Law and is a member of the Compliance and Legal Society of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. Prior to law school, Cox was an equity research associate at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, an investment bank in Atlanta.

J. Leland Murphree is a member of the firm’s Bankruptcy, Workouts & Creditors’ Rights and Consumer & Commercial Finance Litigation practice groups. His practice focuses on the representation of creditors in State Courts and Federal Civil and Bankruptcy Courts; Workouts and Restructuring of Problem Loans, Bonds, and Derivatives; Commercial Litigation; Commercial Foreclosures and Collections; and Representation of Businesses in Bankruptcy and Insolvency. Murphree is a graduate of the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, and during that time he served as an intern to the Honorable Thomas A. Wiseman Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee and Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Kathryn Dietrich Perreault is a member of the firm’s Securities Litigation practice group, with a focus on the defense of brokerage firms and financial institutions against claims asserted by customers in state and federal court and in arbitration proceedings nationwide. Perreault is a graduate of the Cumberland School of Law, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Cumberland Law Review. She also serves on the board of Leading Edge Institute and is a Junior Patron of the Birmingham Museum of Art.