Sharon Brown-Veillard, Esq.

Partner, Barclay Damon LLP

New York, NY

Ms. Brown is an accomplished attorney and partner with Barclay Damon LLP in New York City. Passionate about her work, she is an experienced tax lawyer who also serves as the co-chair of the firm’s public finance practice area. Moreover, she represents Barclay Damon LLP as its diversity partner and chair of its diversity partner committee.

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. She 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. She has advised on the sale of municipal bonds in public offerings, private placements, and limited public offerings.

In addition, she has been an adjunct professor at New York Law School since 2020.

In the Diocese of Long Island, she is a member of the Standing Committee and the Chair of Dispatch of Business for the Convention of the Diocese of Long Island, a position she has held for more than 10 years. She was a General Convention deputy in 2022 and 2024. Ms. Brown has also held positions on the Diocesan Council as a member, vice president, and member of the Disciplinary Board.

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

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