Mr William Anderson > Bracewell LLP > Houston, United States > Lawyer Profile

Bracewell LLP remains best known for debt offerings by energy businesses and financial services institutions, including community banking organisations. Outside its core industry sectors, it also advised Sysco, the global distributor of food and related products on its $1.25bn offering of unsecured senior notes. Houston partners William Anderson and Troy Harder are key figures, along with Catherine Hood in New York, who offers a range of expertise including in offerings of first mortgage and collateral trust bonds, green bonds, unsecured notes and high-yield debt.

Noted for its capabilities in the energy sector, Bracewell LLP works with a host of public and privately held businesses on a broad range of high-value deals, including mergers, stock sales, leveraged buyouts, dispositions and tender offers. Based in Texas, the practice is skilled at acting for special committees of boards of directors and financial advisors in M&A, and is also proficient in private equity investments. William Anderson, who advises on fiduciary duties, SEC compliance and transactions, and Charles Still, a key reference for energy players, leads the group from Houston. In the same office, Jason Jean is routinely engaged by private and public companies active in the upstream and midstream segments, and financial services clients in the context of M&A, business combinations and restructurings.