Barbara focuses her practice on tax structuring for M&A transactions, with a particular emphasis on tax issues arising in partnership, joint venture and alternative investment structures, including the use of partnership structures for strategic acquisitions by corporate groups. Her practice has an energy industry concentration, including transactions involving Fortune 50 corporations, master limited partnerships (MLPs), private equity investors, portfolio companies and funds in all aspects of the energy industry, upstream, midstream, and downstream oil field services as well as alternative energy, wind, solar and biomass enterprises. She also provides advocacy in federal income tax controversies at the audit and appellate levels. Additionally, she is board certified in tax law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Barbara has been the Chair of the Partnership and LLC Tax Committee of the ABA Section of Taxation, is a recipient of the committee’s Larry M. Katz Award for Distinguished Service and was the founder and first Chair of the Section's LLC Task Force

Prior to joining Orrick, Barbara was a partner at McGuireWoods and served as managing director in the M&A tax group of KPMG LLP.