Mr Daniel Connolly > Bracewell LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Daniel Connolly
Work Department
Litigation
Position
Daniel Connolly’s practice focuses on representing clients in such diverse industries as banking, construction and pharmaceuticals in a wide spectrum of white collar defense and regulatory compliance investigations, as well as bankruptcy, class action and complex commercial litigation cases. In addition to representing clients in federal and New York State trial and appellate courts, Dan regularly appears before numerous federal departments and agencies, including the U.S. Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General, as well as various state investigatory and enforcement agencies. He has represented major corporations and senior executives in an array of criminal or regulatory matters and has served as compliance and ethics advisor to companies and boards of directors.
Career
Daniel Connolly serves as managing partner of Bracewell’s New York office.
Education
J.D., cum laude, American University School of Law, 1988; B.A., with honors, Hamilton College, 1985
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
Bracewell LLP represents both plaintiffs and defendants in a full range of complex commercial litigation matters, with a particularly strong reputation for handling energy- and financial services related disputes. Recent highlights for the team include representing Apache Corporation in a series of class actions alleging, among other things, the underpayment of royalties. Houston’s Stephen Crain and New York-based Daniel Connolly jointly lead the practice group: Crain predominantly represents energy-sector clients in a wide range of cases, while Connolly focuses on white-collar and regulatory compliance matters. Also recommended is New York’s Drew Taggart, praised for being ‘highly skilled in conducting complex discovery’.
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