Mr Matthew Grunert > Bracewell LLP > Houston, United States > Lawyer Profile
Bracewell LLP Offices
711 LOUISIANA STREET
STE 2300
HOUSTON, TX 77002
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United States
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Mr Matthew Grunert
Position
Matt Grunert advises clients on a broad range of compensation and employee benefits matters for public and closely-held companies, as well as private equity funds and portfolio companies. He has vast experience counseling clients with the design, implementation and on-going operation of Section 409A non-qualified deferred compensation plans and equity compensation arrangements, including stock options, restricted stock, phantom stock, Section 162(m) grandfathering issues and partnership profits interests. Matt also regularly counsels both companies and executives with the negotiation and drafting of executive compensation arrangements, including employment agreements, retention and severance agreements and change-in-control arrangements.
Education
New York University School of Law, LL.M., Taxation, 2005; Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, J.D.; 2004, Order of the Coif, Trinity University, B.A., 1998
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
Bracewell LLP boasts a strong presence in the oil and gas and energy sectors, notably representing Phillips 66 in the $3.8 billion all-cash acquisition of DCP Midstream LP’s publicly held common units. The team’s expertise encompasses stock exchange rules related to compensation, employment transfers, and deferred compensation schemes. Co-leading the practice from Houston, Scott Sanders focuses on analyzing and structuring employee benefit plans within corporate transactions, covering due diligence, change in control provisions, and the negotiation of transaction documents. Fellow Houston-based co-chair Matthew Grunert advises public companies, private equity funds, and their portfolio companies on benefits liabilities allocation, 280G golden parachute issues, and the management of compensation following transaction closure.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Project finance
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
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Government > Government relations
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- 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
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense