Julie Houston

Partner

Austin

Julia (Julie) Houston's practice focuses on various aspects of traditional public finance and public/private project financing.

Julie has served as bond counsel to various state agencies and local governmental entities, including, special districts, cities, counties and public facility corporations; as underwriter and bank counsel to financial institutions that underwrite and purchase tax-exempt and taxable governmental obligations; and as outside counsel to a public facility corporation that owns and operates a convention center hotel and to professional sports teams that lease bond financed sports venue facilities. Julie also has experience representing domestic banks that provide credit and liquidity facilities for tax-exempt financings. Prior to entering private law practice, Julie served as an assistant attorney general in the Public Finance Division of the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Texas.

Engagements
- Represented municipality in the issuance of bonds for the acquisition of and improvements to a water system and regional wastewater treatment facility
- Represented state agency in the issuance of public securities on behalf of the Texas windstorm insurer of last resort, including interpretation of legislation and coordination of approval by several state agencies
- Served as underwriters’ counsel in the issuance of variable rate put bonds by state agency for toll road project in Central Texas
- Served as outside counsel to a professional sports team as lessee of a bond financed venue project
- Represented special districts in the issuance of bonds for the construction and acquisition of road and utility facilities for a planned community consisting of more than 3,000 single-family homes
- Represented a county in the issuance of revenue bonds secured by special assessments levied within a public improvement district to finance public infrastructure for a multi-phased residential and commercial development.

D: +1 512 582 6952
E:[email protected]

Address:

200 West 6th Street
Suite 2250
Austin, TX 78701
United States

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Practices

Admitted In
- Texas

Education
- University of San Diego School of Law, J.D., 1993
- University of Illinois, M.S., 1985
- Marian University, B.A., 1983

Honors
- Chambers USA, Texas Public Finance, Band 2, 2024

Memberships
- State Bar of Texas
- Austin Bar Association
- American College of Bond Lawyers, Fellow
- National Association of Bond Lawyers
- Women in Public Finance, Texas Chapter

Speeches
- “Financing Public Infrastructure via Special Districts: The Domino Effect,” 25th Annual Land Use Conference, University of Texas Law CLE (April 15, 2021)
- “General Session: Basic Structuring, and “Underwriting Behind the Scenes,” “The Essentials,” National Association of Bond Lawyers (April 24-26, 2019, June 9-12, 2020 and June 8-11, 2021)
- “Administration of Public Improvement Districts and Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones,” Texas City Attorneys Association, Summer Conference, San Antonio. Texas (June 20, 2019)
- Municipal Advisory Council of Texas Conference and 63rd Annual Meeting (October 12, 2017)
- “Public Improvement Districts: A Bond Attorney’s Perspective,” Texas City Attorneys Association Public Improvement Districts Workshop, Austin, Texas (February 19, 2016)
- The Bond Buyer’s 20th Annual Texas Public Finance Conference (February 1, 2016)
- Municipal Advisory Council of Texas Conference and 61st Annual Meeting (October 29, 2015)

Government Experience
- Office of the Attorney General, Texas, Public Finance Division, Assistant Attorney General