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An accomplished lawyer with 19 years of experience, Barron's principal areas of practice are public finance, urban infrastructure and transportation development, state legislative matters, and public/private partnerships. He has significant municipal finance and public law experience in various areas, including traditional municipal finance, tax increment financing, urban infrastructure and redevelopment, and structuring public/private joint ventures.
His public finance practice consists of serving as bond counsel for cities, counties, state agencies, and special districts, including local government corporations. In addition to bond counsel engagements, he also represents national and regional investment banking firms as underwriters counsel in bond and interest rate swap transactions. Barron also serves as general counsel to conduit bond issuers, tax increment reinvestment zones, local government corporations, municipal management districts, and certain not-for-profit corporations. Barron has recently focused his efforts on creating innovative financing opportunities for affordable housing and urban development.
As a result of his work, Barron has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® as a leader in public finance law since 2006.
In addition to being the Public Finance Group Leader, Barron is also a member of both the Management and Talent Management Committees and serves as Chair of V&E's Diversity Committee.
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- Serving as bond counsel to state agencies; the cities of Houston, Galveston, San Antonio, and other cities and school districts in other regions of the state, including entities in Hidalgo and Cameron Counties
- Serving as bond counsel to the Hidalgo Regional Mobility Authority
- Serving as bond counsel and special counsel to various redevelopment authorities and special districts
- Representing regional and national underwriters relating to general obligation, revenue, project finance, transportation, and other transactions
- Representing tax increment reinvestment zones responsible for stimulating over a billion dollars of new investment in the City of Houston and City of Galveston
- Representing and advising developers on urban development and various tax incentives and/or grants
- Representing not-for-profit corporations on various affordable housing initiatives
Representative Transactions
- $452.7 million Texas Public Finance Authority State of Texas General Obligation Refunding Bonds, Series 2009A and B
- $449.7 million City of Houston Airport System Senior Lien Revenue Refunding Bonds, Series 2009A
- $450 million City of Houston Taxable Pension Obligation Bonds, Series 2009A
- $45 million Hidalgo County Regional Mobility Authority Special Revenue Line of Credit
- $325 million Harris County Hospital District Senior Lien Refunding and Revenue Bonds, Series 2007A and Harris County Hospital District Senior Lien Refunding Revenue Bonds, Series 2007B
- $22.6 million Midtown Redevelopment Authority Contract Tax Increment Revenue Bonds, Series 2005
- $118 million McAllen Independent School District Unlimited Tax School Building and Refunding Bonds, Series 2005
- $1.3 billion Texas Public Finance Authority Unemployment Compensation Obligation Assessment Revenue Bonds, Series 2003 - Bond Counsel
- $24.7 million City of San Antonio, Texas, Starbright Industrial Development Corporation Contract Revenue Bonds, Series 2003 (Taxable) [Starbright (Toyota) Project] - Bond Counsel
- $257.7 million Texas Water Development Board State Revolving Fund Subordinate Lien Revenue Bonds, Series 2009A, Sub-Series 2009A-1 and A-2 - Underwriter Counsel
- $109.9 million Tennessee State School Bond Authority Higher Educational Facilities Second Program Bonds, Series 2009A - Underwriter Counsel
- $76.3 City of Laredo, Texas Combination Tax and Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2008A and Combination Tax and Waterworks and Sewer System Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2008B - Underwriter Counsel
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
- University of Michigan, J.D., 1989
- The University of Texas, B.A., History, 1986
- Admitted to practice: Texas, 1990
- The Best Lawyers in America® in public finance law, 2006 - 2011
- "Texas Rising Star," Texas Monthly, 2004
- Member: National Association of Bond Lawyers; Texas Bar Foundation (Member since 2003); Center for Houston's Future; American Leadership Forum, 2006 Class XXIV
- Board of Directors: Discovery Green-Downtown Park Corporation; YMCA of Greater Houston; Christus Foundation; Houston Parks Board
- Chair: 13th Annual Bond Buyer Texas Public Finance Conference, 2009
- Barron is a frequent speaker in numerous venues on various public finance topics including: urban infrastructure and transportation development, state legislative matters, and public/private partnerships
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