Sharon Brown

Sharon is an experienced tax lawyer who serves as the co-chair of the firm’s public finance practice area. Drawing on over two decades of success in the legal realm, Ms. Brown concentrates her practice with a particular emphasis on the federal tax treatment of tax-exempt bond financings, in which she assists her governmental clients in the tax structuring of governmental and private activity bond transactions. Sharon has served as bond counsel, underwriters’ counsel, special-tax counsel, and borrower’s counsel on a wide variety of public finance transactions, including 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. Sharon has extensive transactional experience with multifamily housing financings involving low-income housing tax credits, historical tax credits, and a variety of issuer and government subsidies and incentives. Sharon also represents Barclay Damon LLP as its diversity partner and as the chair of its 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.