Butler Snow attorney Blake Sharpton will teach a development authority training session through the University of Georgia’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government on February 11, 2025. The course will cover the responsibilities of development authority board members and the role that development authorities serve within the local economic development process. Click here to read more about the course.
The UGA Carl Vinson Institute of Government informs, innovates, and inspires so that governments, large and small, can be more efficient and responsive, address current and emerging challenges, and serve the public with excellence. As an integral part of the University of Georgia’s public service and outreach mission, the Institute of Government’s faculty, staff, and students work every day to provide the highest quality educational programing, on-the-ground assistance, and innovative tools that equip government leaders, build stronger communities, inspire economic success, and improve quality of life throughout the state of Georgia.
Sharpton is the Assistant Practice Group Leader for Butler Snow’s Public Finance, Tax Incentives and Credit Markets Group. He focuses his practice on public finance, commercial lending and debt financing, and economic developer projects. He represents school districts, cities, counties, development authorities, educational institutions, and underwriters across Georgia and other states. Sharpton has extensive experience serving as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, bank counsel, borrower’s counsel, and underwriter’s counsel on a wide variety of tax-exempt and taxable bond transactions. He focuses primarily on traditional municipal finance projects such as new educational and general municipal facilities. Sharpton also routinely works on economic impact projects and transactions such as sports stadiums, entertainment venues, multi-use developments, multi-family housing developments, retail developments, hotels, and airports.
