Bracewell LLP

Centered from its Texas-based offices, Bracewell LLP is particularly skilled at defending energy companies, as well as their officers and directors, in securities class actions, derivative shareholder actions and regulatory investigations. Here the team, which is headed from Houston by Tony Visage, works in a very synergistic manner alongside transactional lawyers (who add extra insight into underlying securities matters), as well as white-collar/investigations lawyers – particularly as it relates to regulatory enforcement aspects. In Austin, Stephen Benesh is National Banking Association’s “go-to” national counsel for securities cases relating to the bank’s oil and gas royalty trust business.