Mr Tony Visage > Bracewell LLP > Houston, United States > Lawyer Profile
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HOUSTON, TX 77002
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Mr Tony Visage

Position
Tony Visage, Chair of the firm’s securities and corporate governance litigation practice group, focuses his trial practice on shareholder class actions and derivative cases alleging violations of the Securities and Exchange Acts, as well as insider trading, fraud, accounting irregularities, reporting requirement violations and state law claims. Tony has first-chair jury and bench trial experience. He defends companies and individual directors and officers. He has conducted numerous internal investigations in response to derivative demands and other matters giving rise to the need for a special investigation by independent counsel. Tony also works with special committees and conflicts committees of boards on matters involving fiduciary duties.
Education
University of Houston Law Center, J.D., 1993, cum laude; Baylor University, Bachelor of Business Administration, 1986
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
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.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Government > Government relations
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate