Mr F. William Brownell > Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP > Washington DC, United States > Lawyer Profile
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WASHINGTON DC 20037
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Mr F. William Brownell
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Work Department
Energy, Energy Sector Security Team, Telecommunications, Environmental, Air, Climate Change, Coal, Natural Resources, Environmental Compliance, Litigation and Defense, Energy Litigation, PFAS Interdisciplinary Team
Position
Special Counsel
Career
Mr. Brownell is the former chair of the firm’s executive committee and former head of its administrative law and environmental practice groups. Mr. Brownell has been lead counsel on some of the most important and precedent-setting environmental cases of his time. With decades of experience representing clients in a broad range of environmental litigation, regulatory, legislative, transactional, and compliance matters, he is repeatedly before the US Court of Appeals and the US Supreme Court. He also manages proceedings before federal and state agencies and courts and represents clients before State Attorneys General around the country. These representations include proceedings on greenhouse gas emissions, defense of public nuisance and enforcement litigation, and compliance counseling on clean air, chemical, and waste issues. Mr. Brownell partners with Fortune 500 clients to build durable strategies for future growth.
Memberships
Admitted to the District of Columbia Bar
Education
- JD, Georgetown University Law Center, 1978
- MS, Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service, 1978
- BS, Georgetown University, 1974
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings