Allen Boone Humphries Robinson LLP

Chair of Firm's Executive Committee: David M. Oliver, Jr.

Number of partners: 12

Number of other fee-earners: 29 non-Partner lawyers

International Offices: (N/A) Offices in Houston, Austin, Dallas

With more than 40 lawyers, ABHR is exclusively devoted to the practice of public law and the public finance of infrastructure in Texas communities. ABHR's clients construct, finance, and operate the public water, sewer, drainage, road, and park facilities that allow Texas to grow, develop, and flourish. ABHR lawyers create and serve as legal counsel for municipal utility districts, water control and improvement districts, levee improvement districts, drainage districts, and other types of special purpose districts to provide quality public infrastructure and services supporting new development throughout Texas.

• Municipal Utility Districts (MUD): Using an initial investment of private capital from landowners, developers, and builders, MUDs and other special districts are able to construct and issue low-cost tax-exempt financing for public water, sewer, drainage, park, and road facilities to serve residential, commercial, and industrial developments. In ABHR's role as creation counsel, general counsel, bond counsel, and special counsel for special purpose districts, they bring a vast range of experience to find solutions for the issues faced by both developers and communities. For over 40 years, ABHR's lawyers have been key participants in the major developments affecting special districts in Texas.
• Master Planned Communities: ABHR's attorneys possess a unique breadth of experience in infrastructure finance and local politics in creating and developing master planned communities throughout Texas; including Twinwood, Cinco Ranch, Sienna, Cross Creek Ranch, Elyson, First Colony, Greatwood, Shadow Creek Ranch, Telfair, and Towne Lake in the greater Houston area, Teravista, Falcon Pointe, Rocky Creek, Sweetwater, Travisso, Water Oak and Wolf Ranch in the Central Texas area, and in North Texas communities including Viridian, Lantana, Light Farms, Canyon Falls, Harvest, Paloma Creek, and Savannah.
• Regional Water Authorities: ABHR provides legal counsel to local water authorities; including the negotiation and preparation of water acquisition and supply contracts, negotiation of governmental issues with other political subdivisions, regulatory compliance, right-of-way acquisition, and bond counsel services related to infrastructure financings.
• Municipal Management Districts (MMD): ABHR lawyers have also worked to expand the role of MMDs to support existing major activity centers, to promote neighborhood revitalization, and to support raw land development. ABHR’s representation of some of the first Texas management districts, such as Uptown District and the Energy Corridor, supported success in major activity centers with practical neighborhood improvements. ABHR attorneys have skillfully expanded the role of MMDs in Texas,so that a MMD can act as a municipal utility district (MUD) to construct, finance and operate water, sewer, retainage, road and park improvements.
• Government Relations: ABHR's lawyers have significant experience working with county and municipal elected officials and staff, effectively advocating for public participation in development and redevelopment projects. In this regard, ABHR represents cities in structuring and negotiating economic development programs and public-private partnerships. ABHR attorneys also have extensive experience in drafting legislation and lobbying the Texas Legislature; with clients including existing local government entities as well as those who seek to create local government entities. For 40 years, ABHR's attorneys have been the principal drafters and lobbyists of major laws and regulations affecting water districts, tax increment reinvestment zones, municipal management districts, and other laws related to the construction of infrastructure and real estate development in Texas. Before the Texas Legislature, ABHR has been involved in the creation of dozens of special districts (including municipal utility districts, municipal management districts, improvement districts, and road districts), a process that includes drafting the legislation to create the district and lobbying for its passage.

ABHR is exclusively dedicated to the practice of public law and the public finance of infrastructure in Texas communities. ABHR's offices are found at:

Houston:

3200 Southwest Freeway

Suite 2600

Houston, TX 77027

(713) 860-6400

Central Texas:

919 Congress Avenue

Suite 1500

Austin, TX 78701

(512) 518-2424

North Texas:

4514 Cole Avenue

Suite 1450

Dallas, TX 75205

(972) 823-0800