E. Alston Ray
Office Information
Practice Areas
Alston is in our Public Finance, Tax Incentives and Credit Markets Group. He focuses his practice primarily on Public Finance, Municipal Bonds, Financial Services, Tax-Exempt Organizations and Economic Development Incentives.
Biography – View PDF Bio
- Associations
- Bar Admissions
- Distinctions
- Education & Honors
- Experience
- In the News
- Papers, Presentations, & Publications
- Recent Blogs
Bar Admissions
- Alabama, 1976
- U.S. District Courts
- Alabama: Northern
Distinctions
- Best Lawyers in America®
- Public Finance Law, 2008-2020
- Martindale-Hubbell®
- AV®-Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated, 1987-2017
Education & Honors
- University of Alabama, J.D., 1976
- Editor-in-Chief, Alabama Law Review
- Omicron Delta Kappa
- Jasons Senior Honorary
- University of North Carolina, A.B., American Studies, 1970
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Distinguished Naval Graduate, NROTC
- Clerkship, Senior Judge Seybourn H. Lynne, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama
Experience
- Experienced in all aspects of municipal and public finance, including service as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, special tax counsel and counsel to financial institutions providing credit enhancement for financing by state and local governments and their boards, authorities and agencies in Alabama and other states.
- Practice includes financings for a wide variety of governmental purposes, including governmental operations and infrastructure, elementary, secondary and higher education, healthcare, housing, transportation, public utilities and economic and industrial development, and related economic development incentives.
- Extensive experience in a full range of financing structures for both tax-exempt and taxable obligations, including fixed and variable rate transactions, structured financing, pool financings and the use of interest rate swaps and other financial derivative products.
In the News
- 173 Butler Snow Attorneys Named in Best Lawyers® 2020, 19 Named “Lawyer of the Year”
- Butler Snow Ranked as a Top 10 Private Bond Counsel Firm Nationally by Thomson Reuters Top Legal Counsel Review
- Butler Snow Ranked as Top 10 Bond Counsel Firm for First Half of 2017
- 147 Butler Snow Attorneys Named in Best Lawyers®, 18 Named “Lawyer of the Year”
- Firm Ranked #2 for "2016 Healthiest Employers" by BBJ
- Butler Snow Public Finance, Tax Incentives and Credit Markets Group Launches PFI Blog
- Butler Snow Attorneys Hold Key Roles in NABL's 39th Annual Bond Attorney Workshop
- 18 Lawyers From Dwindling Johnston Barton Join Birmingham, Ala., Office of Butler Snow
Papers, Presentations, & Publications
- Presenter, "Legal Fundamentals of Industrial and Economic Development Financing in Alabama," Presented to the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama and Various County and Municipal Industrial Development Boards and Authorities.
- Author, Brochure: "Introduction to Alabama Public Finance Law."