Alexandra M. MacLennan focuses on public finance and serves as bond, underwriters’ and disclosure counsel. She has been named in The Best Lawyers in America each year since 2006 and, in 2010, recognized in Chambers USA for banking and finance.

Ms. MacLennan has 25 years’ experience as bond and disclosure counsel in a variety of transactions including, in particular, health care finance, higher education finance, airport finance, affordable housing finance, electric utility finance and traditional municipal finance. She serves as bond counsel to a number of public hospital districts in Florida, several nonprofit hospital organizations and public housing authorities. She also serves as underwriters’ counsel for various national and regional underwriting firms, letter of credit bank counsel and trustees’ counsel. Ms. MacLennan is also experienced in innovative financings and derivative transactions including commercial paper programs, pooled loan programs, interest rate swaps, forward refundings and forward purchases.

Ms. MacLennan is a member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers and The Florida Bar. She is the former chair of the City, County and Local Government Law Section of The Florida Bar and is a frequent speaker and panelist, locally and nationally, on municipal finance and disclosure topics.

In 2007 Ms. MacLennan was one of the first Florida women elected a Fellow of the American College of Bond Counsel. Also in 2007, she was recognized by the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit’s Pro Bono Program, H.A.V.E. A HEART and the Bay Area Volunteer Lawyers Program for her exceptional pro bono service to the Tampa community. In 2006 she was awarded the Paul S. Buchman Public Service Award for outstanding contribution in the area of legal public service at the annual meeting of the City, County and Local Government Law Section of The Florida Bar. The award is named after Paul S. Buchman, a longtime city attorney for Plant City, Florida, who is noted throughout Florida and nationally for his contributions to municipal law and his service to the community.