Sharon Brown-Veillard

Partner, Barclay Damon LLP

New York, NY

Sharon Brown-Veillard is a partner at Barclay Damon LLP in New York City and serves as the co-chair of the firm’s public finance practice area. Moreover, she represents the firm as its diversity partner and Chair of its Diversity Partner Committee. In addition, she is an adjunct professor at New York Law School and is a member of the Standing Committee in the Diocese of Long Island and the Chair of Dispatch of Business for the Convention of the Diocese of Long Island. Sharon has also held positions on the diocesan council as a member and vice president, a member of the Disciplinary Board, and was a General Convention deputy in 2022 and 2024.

Drawing on over two decades of success in the legal realm, she specializes in tax issues related to tax-exempt bond financings, advising government clients on structuring both governmental and private activity bond transactions. She has served as bond, special-tax, underwriters’, 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, healthcare, and cultural institutions, and general obligation bond and note issues for infrastructure projects across New York. Sharon also advised on the sale of municipal bonds in public offerings, private placements, and limited public offerings.

She was elected to her first term on The Church Pension Fund Board of Trustees in 2024.

Sharon received a JD, cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School, an MS in Taxation with high distinction from Long Island University, a Master of Laws in Taxation from New York Law School, and a BS in Finance and Management from the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. She has been admitted to practice in the State of New York, Washington, DC, and the US Tax Court.