Maynard Cooper & Gale is pleased to announce that Alina Arbuthnot has joined the firm’s Public Finance Practice group as an Associate. Alina comes to Maynard Cooper from a national firm where she gained experience as bond counsel, borrower's counsel, and bank counsel in numerous public finance transactions.

Alina received her J.D. with an Estate Planning Certificate and graduated cum laude from the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Prior to attending law school, Alina studied at the University of South Carolina where she graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Political Science and English from the South Carolina Honors College. After graduating from USC, Alina worked at a boutique financial planning firm where she developed an interest in corporate and tax law. At Maynard Cooper, Alina's practice will focus on representing local governments, boards of education, senior living communities, and nonprofit corporations in taxable and tax-exempt financings.

“We are excited that Alina has chosen to join Maynard Cooper’s Public Finance team,” said Jodie Smith, Chair of the Public Finance Practice. “She brings a solid level of experience in both public finance and lending as well as general corporate matters that we seek in our practice group to best serve our corporate clients.”

Maynard Cooper's Public Finance Practice group attorneys operate at the crossroads of government, business, and finance. Clients seek guidance from Maynard Cooper's Public Finance group in order to finance and build schools, courthouses, parks, community centers, and recreation facilities, hospitals and nursing homes, single family and multi-family housing, jails, wastewater, and solid waste facilities, utilities, and other governmental and nonprofit facilities.