Vinson & Elkins LLP
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Active in the energy sector, Vinson & Elkins LLP is skilled at handling matters that arise from M&A transactions, stock price declines, and insider trading allegations. The practice group is jointly steered by head Craig Zieminski in Dallas, and San Francisco-based Michael Charlson. Zieminski is experienced serving as counsel for companies and their directors in lawsuits brought by Delaware stockholders, alternative entity investors and deal partners, whilst Charlson has represented corporations and officers, regularly in lawsuits and investigations related to allegations that they have issued false and misleading statements or mismanaged the company. In New York, Jason Halper is recommended for complex litigation, with expertise in both securities litigation and ERISA class action.
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- The partners I work with are precise, fast, and don't bury bad news. They write motions that read like motions — short on adjectives, long on authority. Associates are well-supervised and are clearly being trained as future partners rather than being used as document review labor.
- V&E's securities defense team operates with a level of partner involvement and substantive bench depth that I don't see consistently at other firms in this space. Strategy is set by senior partners who actually stay in the matter — not handed off to a rotating cast of associates after the pitch. They understand public-company defendants from the inside: how the SEC thinks, how plaintiffs' counsel build §10b-5 and §16(b) theories, and what a board needs to hear when an enforcement letter or shareholder suit lands. The trial-ready federal court litigation bench is backed by deep transactional and regulatory firepower, so when novel issues come up — advancement vs. indemnification, fee-shifting, Rule 11 exposure — they don't have to farm out the question and wait. They are also unusually candid about case posture. They will tell you the weak parts of your position, which is rarer than it should be.