Justin focuses his practice on public finance, serving as bond counsel, borrower's counsel, disclosure counsel, underwriter's counsel, and bank counsel to a broad range of clients in connection with tax-exempt and taxable financings in Texas and throughout the United States. He has particular experience advising on bonds financing water-related infrastructure, especially bonds privately placed with the Texas Water Development Board.

As bond counsel, Justin represents issuers across Texas, including cities, counties, independent school districts (ISDs), municipal utility districts (MUDs), water control and improvement districts (WCIDs), municipal management districts (MMDs), water supply corporations (WSCs), drainage districts, economic development corporations (EDCs), levee improvement districts (LIDs), and water authorities. He also has served as bond counsel in exempt facility financings for Fortune 500 companies and qualified 501(c)(3) financings for nonprofit corporations nationwide.

As underwriter's counsel and bank counsel, Justin represents national investment banking firms and financial institutions across the country in a wide range of tax-exempt and taxable transactions.

Justin also advises clients on a variety of complex and innovative financings, including general obligation financings, conduit financings, subject-to-appropriation revenue financings, fee and utility revenue financings, lease revenue financings, and solid waste revenue financings, as well as transactions involving combinations of these structures. He further counsels governmental and corporate clients on public law matters, including elections, open government, and economic development.

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Education
JD, University of Houston Law Center, cum laude, Senior Articles Editor, Houston Law Review, 2021

BA, Southern Methodist University, Honors in Liberal Arts, Departmental Distinction in Spanish, 2016