Bracewell Earns Top Rankings in Chambers USA 2025

HOUSTON – Bracewell LLP earned top rankings in Chambers USA 2025, which praised the firm for its leading role advising clients on complex transactional, regulatory, policy and litigation matters in the energy, infrastructure, finance, real estate, healthcare and technology industries.

“Bracewell is a go-to firm,” Chambers wrote. “They are always thinking of ways to be the most efficient and solve the problem in complicated matters.”

Bracewell received six Band 1 practice rankings, including:

• Nationwide Oil & Gas (Regulatory & Litigation) – 11th consecutive year
• Nationwide Offshore Energy – third consecutive year
• Nationwide Government Relations: Specialist Energy, Natural Resources & Environment
• Texas Banking & Finance – 18th consecutive year
• Texas Environment – ninth consecutive year
• Texas Public Finance – second consecutive year

In addition to 38 practice rankings, 90 Bracewell lawyers received Band rankings, 26 of whom were recognized as Band 1, Eminent Practitioners or Senior Statespersons.

Bracewell was among the top law firms with respect to the number of individual rankings received from Chambers USA. An impressive 60 percent of Bracewell’s US partners earned rankings in this year’s guide.

“They are phenomenal lawyers and outside counsel,” one client told Chambers. “The firm is very responsive, very knowledgeable and client centric.”

Chambers & Partners has been publishing guides to the legal profession since 1990. Based on in-depth research, Chambers & Partners identifies the world’s top lawyers in more than 200 jurisdictions.

2025 Chambers USA Results

Practice Rankings

• NATIONWIDE
  • Climate Change
  • Derivatives
  • Energy Transition
  • Energy: Electricity (Finance)
  • Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation)
  • Energy: Electricity (Transactional)
  • Energy: Oil & Gas (Regulatory & Litigation) – Band 1
  • Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional)
  • Environment
  • Government Relations: Federal
  • Government Relations: Specialist Energy, Natural Resources & Environment – Band 1
  • Intellectual Property: Patent Trial and Appeal Board
  • Offshore Energy – Band 1
  • Oil & Gas Litigation
  • Projects: Oil & Gas
  • Projects: Power & Renewables: Transactional
  • Projects: PPP
  • Public Finance
    
    
• DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
  • Environment
    
    
• NEW YORK
  • Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Highly Regarded)
    
    
• TEXAS
  • Banking & Finance – Band 1
  • Bankruptcy/Restructuring
  • Capital Markets: Debt & Equity
  • Corporate/M&A: The Elite
  • Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Houston & Surrounds)
  • Environment – Band 1
  • Healthcare
  • Intellectual Property
  • Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets
  • Labor & Employment
  • Litigation: Appellate
  • Litigation: General Commercial (Houston & Surrounds)
  • Litigation: Securities
  • Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
  • Public Finance – Band 1
  • Real Estate
  • Tax
  • Technology: Outsourcing

Individual Rankings

NATIONWIDE

Capital Markets: Debt & Equity: Central US

• Troy L. Harder

Climate Change

• Jeffrey R. Holmstead

Derivatives

• Michael W. Brooks
• Scott Le Bouef
• Charles R. Mills

Derivates: Enforcement

• Charles R. Mills – Band 1

Energy: Electricity (Finance)

• Todd W. Eckland – Band 1
• Catherine Hood – Band 1
• J. Anthony Terrell – Band 1

Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation)

• Michael W. Brooks
• Deanna E. King
• Catherine P. McCarthy – Band 1

Energy: Electricity (Transactional)

• Ryan S. Holcomb

Energy: Oil & Gas (Regulatory & Litigation)

• Michael W. Brooks
• Michelle Boudreaux
• Eugene Elrod – Band 1
• George D. Fatula
• Mark K Lewis – Band 1
• D. Kirk Morgan II

Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional)

• Jason M. Jean
• Austin T. Lee
• Parker A. Lee – Up and Coming
• James “JJ” McAnelly III
• G. Alan Rafte – Band 1

Energy: PHMSA Specialists

• Annie Cook
• Catherine D. Little – Band 1

Government Relations: Federal

• E. Dee Martin
• Scott H. Segal
• Andrew Shaw – Up and Coming

International Arbitration: Counsel

• Martin Gusy

Offshore Energy

• Kevin A. Ewing – Band 1
• Ty Johnson
• Danielle M. Varnell

Oil & Gas Litigation

• Stephen B. Crain – Band 1

Outsourcing

• Jeffrey B. Andrews

Projects

• G. Alan Rafte

Projects: Power & Renewables: Transactional

• Laura D. Sheldon – Up and Coming
• Danielle M. Varnell

Projects: PPP

• Fernando Rodriguez Marin
• Nicolai J. Sarad

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Environment

• Kevin A. Ewing
• Jeffrey R Holmstead – Band 1
• Jason B. Hutt
• Ann D. Navaro
• Brittany M. Pemberton

Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations

• Stephen L. Braga

GEORGIA

Environment

• Catherine D. Little

NEW YORK

Banking & Finance

• Jeris Diana Brunette

Litigation: General Commercial

• Rachel B. Goldman

Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations

• Nicole Boeckmann
• Seth D. DuCharme
• Barbara S. Jones – Senior Statesperson

Tax

• Elizabeth L. McGinley

TEXAS

Banking & Finance

• Heather L. Brown – Band 1
• Kate H. Day
• Mark C. Evans – Eminent Practitioner
• Dewey J. Gonsoulin Jr
• Stephanie Koo Song

Bankruptcy/Restructuring

• William A Wood III – Band 1

Capital Markets: Debt & Equity

• Troy L. Harder

Construction

• Richard F. Whiteley

Corporate/M&A

• Lytch T. Gutmann

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Houston & Surrounds)

• Matthew B. Grunert

Environment

• Sara M. Burgin – Band 1
• Kevin D. Collins
• Matt Paulson
• Whit Swift
• Timothy A. Wilkins – Band 1

Healthcare

• Carrie Douglas
• Wilson G. Jones – Band 1
• Nancy LeGros
• Brett W. Rector
• Anna Wortham – Up and Coming

Intellectual Property

• Constance Gall Rhebergen

Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets

• Jonathon K. Hance

Labor & Employment

• Amy Karff Halevy

Litigation: Appellate

• Warren W. Harris – Band 1
• Walter Simons – Up and Coming

Litigation: General Commercial (Austin & Surrounds)

• W. Stephen Benesh

Litigation: General Commercial (Houston & Surrounds)

• Bradley J. Benoit
• Stephen B. Crain

Litigation: Securities

• Tony L. Visage

Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations

• Kevin D. Collins
• Matthew G. Nielsen
• Jeffery B. Vaden

Public Finance

• Elizabeth Bowes
• Robert Collins
• Cristy Edwards
• Jonathan Frels – Band 1
• R. Todd Greenwalt
• Jonathan Leatherberry
• Glenn Opel – Band 1
• Victoria Ozimek – Band 1
• Julie Partain
• Barron Wallace – Band 1

Real Estate

• K. Brock Bailey
• Christie L. Latimer – Up and Coming
• Tamara L. McKinzie
• Aaron P. Roffwarg

Tax

• Gregory M. Bopp – Eminent Practitioner
• R. Todd Greenwalt

Technology: Outsourcing

• Jeffrey B. Andrews – Band 1

WASHINGTON

Intellectual Property

• Douglas F. Stewart