Sharon serves as a co-chair of Barclay Damon's Public Finance Practice Area. With 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 co–summer associate partner and is a member of the firm's Diversity Partner Committee. Outside Barclay Damon, she is a federal income-tax adjunct professor at New York Law School.