Julie Melton Partain

Practice Areas

Julie Partain focuses on public debt offerings and business transactions involving cities, counties, school districts, airports, transportation entities, economic development corporations and water districts. She serves as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel and disclosure counsel in financing transactions for all types of public entities. Julie also works on financings and debt issuances for special districts, including special legislatively created districts. In addition, she advises clients on their economic development initiatives and incentives for public/private projects and drafts agreements for such projects on behalf of her clients.

Julie has worked on and represented clients in expedited declaratory judgment actions in District court in response to legal challenges to clients’ proposed bond issuances or to validate new and innovative financing techniques. Her broad experience also includes master lease financings and general counsel for local government investment pools. Additionally, Julie has worked on various complex projects, including large venue projects for a major sports stadium, hotel and convention center financings, entertainment venue financing and development and the creation and financing of Public Improvement Districts, which include refinancing and multi-phase assessment projects and financings.

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association; National Bond Lawyers Association; Dallas Bar Association; Dallas Association of Young Lawyers

Personal

JD, The University of Texas School of Law, 2001; MPA, University of North Texas, 1995; BA, The University of Texas at Austin, 1992

Law Clerk, The Honorable Nathan L. Hecht, Texas Supreme Court