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.
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Kernmandanten
- Officers, directors and employees of Titan Accommodations, LLC
- The Bank of New York Mellon and certain of its trusts and trustees
- The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A.
Highlight-Mandate
- Serving as lead trial counsel for two Bank of New York Mellon-managed oil and gas royalty trusts in a securities class action case brought by an investment fund on behalf of the trust’s investors.
- Served as lead trial counsel for The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company in connection with claims brought by an investment fund on behalf of the Pacific Coast Oil Trust’s investors.
- Representing multiple individual defendants in consolidated arbitration proceedings following seven lawsuits filed by Oil Patch Group, Inc. against former employees now working for competitor Titan Accommodations, LLC, involving allegations of duty violations, non-compete breaches, trade secret misappropriation, and contract interference.
Anwält*innen
Praxisleitung
Tony Visage
Weitere Kernanwält*innen
Stephen Benesh; Bryan Dumesnil; Bradley Benoit; Matthew Nielsen