Sharon serves as a co-chair of Barclay Damon's Public Finance Practice Area. With over 20 years of legal experience, she primarily concentrates on the federal tax treatment of tax-exempt bond financings and serves as bond counsel, underwriters' counsel, special-tax counsel, and borrower’s counsel on a wide variety of public finance transactions, including single-family housing, power and energy, and 501(c)(3) financings for higher education, health care, and cultural institutions. She has extensive transactional experience with multi-family housing financings involving low-income-housing tax credits, historical tax credits, and a variety of issuer and government subsidies and incentives.
She counsels state and local governmental entities, financial institutions, and not-for-profit organizations on a variety of public finance tax issues. She has worked on transactions involving multi-modal structures, complex refundings, derivative products, multiple-year tranches, draw-down bonds, recycled volume cap bonds, private placements, limited public offerings, general-obligation bonds, and revenue bonds.
Sharon additionally advises issuers and borrowers on IRS examinations of tax-exempt bond transactions and post-issuance tax compliance.
Sharon's experience as a tax attorney has given her the ability to simplify complex tax concepts, making her an essential resource for her clients. Additionally, Sharon's pleasant demeanor is a distinctive element of her client relationships.
In addition to her own practice, Sharon serves as the firm's diversity partner and as chair of the Diversity Partner Committee. In her role, she leads the firm's diversity, equity, and inclusion initiative, authoring innovative policies and advising firm leadership on effectively recruiting and using the productive talents, energy, and creativity of a diverse workforce for maximum organizational effectiveness and the best use of intellectual capital.
Outside Barclay Damon, Sharon is a federal income-tax adjunct professor at New York Law School.