Ann Watford Todd

Public Finance

Economic Development

Affordable Housing

Senior Living & Long-Term Care

Ann Watford Todd is a Shareholder in Maynard Nexsen's Public Finance and Economic Development & Incentives pratice groups. She regularly serves as bond counsel and disclosure counsel to municipalities, counties, boards of education, utilities, public corporations, and state authorities in taxable and tax-exempt transactions throughout Alabama. She also represents regional and national financial institutions, underwriters, and trustees in public and private transactions involving governments, nonprofits, and healthcare entities.

Ann frequently represents city and county boards of education, educational building authorities, and public and private universities on tax, securities, and financing matters. Her experience in the education sector also involves securitization transactions, equipment financings and local tax elections.

Ann also serves as special counsel to government, nonprofit, and private entities in the negotiation, structuring, documentation and validation of economic development projects. Her work involves revenue-sharing arrangements, tax-increment financings, HUD program loans and formation of improvement and cooperative districts for commercial and residential development.

Ann is a founding director and current Secretary of the Alabama Chapter of Women in Public Finance and a graduate of the Alabama Leadership Initiative. She received her J.D. from Vanderbilt Law School and holds a B.A. in classics from Davidson College.

National Association of Bond Lawyers

Women in Public Finance

Vanderbilt University Law School

J.D.

2011 - 2014

Davidson College

B.A., magna cum laude

2006 - 2010

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