Rahat Huq

Practices

• Public Finance
  • Public-Private Partnerships (P3)
• Tax

Biography

Rahat Huq is Counsel in the firm’s Public Finance practice group. Prior to joining the firm, Rahat was a Senior Assistant City Attorney at the City of Houston, Texas, where he oversaw Public Finance and State and Local Taxation for the Legal Department and, additionally, advised City departments upon various economic development matters.

Rahat also formerly served as Deputy Chief of the City’s Legal Department’s General Counsel Section. In this role, in addition to advising City departments on matters in his core practice areas, Rahat advised City boards and commissions and provided counsel to City departments on general public law matters such as elections, ethics, open meetings, open records and amendments to the City’s Code of Ordinances on various areas of municipal regulation. Rahat was awarded the Legal Department’s Most Outstanding Attorney Award in 2020 for his work in aiding City officials to navigate Texas’ comprehensive property tax reform legislation in light of the City Charter’s property tax restrictions.

Prior to his time with the City of Houston, Rahat was an Assistant Attorney General with the Texas Attorney General’s Office where he issued rulings to state agencies and local governments on matters involving the Texas Public Information Act and advised upon the Texas Open Meetings Act.

Apart from his legal career, Rahat covered the NBA for 15 years as a contributor at Forbes.com SportsMoney, ESPN.com, and Chron.com with a focus on analytics and the league’s salary cap and collective bargaining agreement.