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Brandon Tuck
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Work Department
Environmental & Natural Resources
Position
Counsel
Career
Brandon’s practice focuses on environmental and natural resources law, with an emphasis on project development, enforcement defense, and environmental litigation.
Brandon advises clients on obtaining and defending permits and authorizations for a variety of energy, manufacturing, and development projects, including upstream and midstream oil and gas projects (both gas and liquid), energy export projects, transportation and marine terminal projects, commercial development and infrastructure, and single- and multi-family residential development. These approvals are from agencies such as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, with underlying statutes including the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act (ESA), National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), and other federal and state natural resource statutes.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Environment > Environment: litigation
Manufacturing, oil and gas, mining companies turn to the environmental & natural resources team at Vinson & Elkins LLP for its ability to handle high-stakes contamination cases. Ronald Tenpas leads the group from Washington DC, representing clients in criminal investigations related to environmental violations. The deep bench fields Matthew Dobbins , of the Houston office, whose handles indemnification claims and industrial incidents, Washington DC’s Corinne Snow, who is sought after for her experience challenging as well as defending federal regulations and the Houston-based Brandon Tuck, whose background in environmental and natural resources law, equips him to handle a spread of environmental issues surrounding project development and enforcement defense mandates.
United States > Environment > Environment: regulatory
The environment and natural resources department at Vinson & Elkins LLP is a key point of contact for clients seeking assistance with investigations, permitting, incident response, as well as litigation. Practice head Ronald Tenpas leads from Washington DC, working with energy, oil and gas, manufacturing and chemicals companies on enforcement, prosecutions and investigations and violations of the CAA. In the Houston office, Brandon Tuck deals with natural resources law, handling a spread of project development and permitting matters for clients within the infrastructure, energy and maritime sectors, alongside Matthew Dobbins, whose focus lies within regulatory counselling and transactional matters, particularly relating to energy transition.
Lawyer Rankings
- Environment: litigation United States > Environment
- Environment: regulatory United States > Environment
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Government > Government relations
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Finance > Project finance
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Government > Government contracts
- Tax > International tax
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Industry focus > Sport
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism