Sharon Brown is an experienced tax lawyer who serves as the co-chair of the firm’s public finance practice area.
Practice Focus
Drawing on over two decades of success in the legal realm, Ms. Brown concentrates her practice on the federal tax treatment of tax-exempt bond financings. She assists governmental clients in the tax structuring of governmental and private activity bond transactions and has served as bond counsel, underwriters’ counsel, special-tax counsel, and borrower’s counsel on a wide variety of public finance transactions.
Transactional Experience
Sharon’s experience includes single and multi-family housing, power and energy, 501(c)(3) financings for higher education, health care, and cultural institutions, and general obligation bond and note issues for infrastructure projects for cities, towns, villages, and school districts across New York State. She has extensive transactional experience with multifamily housing financings involving low-income housing tax credits, historic tax credits, and a variety of issuer and government subsidies and incentives.
Leadership & Diversity
Sharon represents Barclay Damon LLP as its diversity partner and chairs the diversity partner committee, where she cultivates an inclusive environment that embraces diverse perspectives, enhances collaboration, and drives meaningful change within the firm and the legal community.
