Mr Scott Sanders > Bracewell LLP > Houston, United States > Lawyer Profile
Bracewell LLP Offices
711 LOUISIANA STREET
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HOUSTON, TX 77002
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Mr Scott Sanders
Work Department
Employee Benefits, ERISA and Executive Compensation
Position
Scott Sanders provides counsel to publicly traded and privately owned companies in the design, implementation and administration of employee benefit plans and executive compensation arrangements. He also handles the compensation and benefits issues that arise in corporate acquisitions, financings, initial public offerings, spin-offs and other corporate transactions. Scott helps guide companies in implementing numerous qualified and non-qualified deferred compensation plans, cash-and equity-based incentive plans, executive compensation arrangements, change in control arrangements and other types of employee benefit plans. His practice focuses on the corporate and tax issues that are critical to the design, implementation and administration of employee benefit and executive compensation arrangements. Scott represents clients on tax and benefit matters before the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Labor.
Education
J.D., cum laude, Baylor University School of Law, 1991; B.B.A., Accounting, summa cum laude, Baylor University, 1987
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
Bracewell LLP shows extensive strength in the energy space, advising domestic and international companies on executive compensation and employee benefits aspects arising from M&A and purchase agreements, with notable mandates for Pilot Travel Centers, Arroyo Energy Investment Partners, and Calpine Corporation. Scott Sanders co-heads the team, bringing in-depth expertise in managing the structuring of the employee benefit programs in corporate reorganizations and divestitures, while co-head, Matthew Grunert, assists public companies and executives with the negotiation and drafting of executive compensation arrangements and employment agreements. Both attorneys are based in the Houston office.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Government > Government relations
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Finance > Capital markets: debt 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