Mr W. Glenn Opel > Bracewell LLP > Austin, United States > Lawyer Profile
Bracewell LLP Offices
111 CONGRESS AVENUE, STE 2300
AUSTIN, TX 78701-4061
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Mr W. Glenn Opel
Position
Glenn Opel currently chairs the firm’s public finance department. Over the past 25 years, Glenn has worked alongside virtually every kind of governmental entity on state and local government finance matters, including traditional municipal finance, tax increment finance, and public improvement districts. His comprehensive practice focuses on public finance, infrastructure and transportation development, and public/private partnerships. His knowledge of traditional and highly structured project finance conduit transactions assist his clients in all types of industries, including state agencies, transportation entities and regional mobility authorities, cities, counties, school districts, airports, higher education, river and port authorities, public/private partnerships, industrial development, and special districts. In addition to acting as bond and disclosure counsel, Glenn represents national and regional investment banking firms as underwriter’s counsel and letter of credit bank counsel in public finance transactions.
Education
The University of Texas School of Law, J.D., 1989; The University of Texas at Austin, B.B.A., 1984
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