Vinson & Elkins is a prime example of firms that have spread far beyond Texas’ borders. While the firm’s Houston antitrust practice may be its most famous — Who’s Who nominee and Texas antitrust legend Harry M Reasoner bases his practice there — the firm’s antitrust footprint now reaches across the state.

Its eight partners and 18 associates are spread relatively evenly between Houston and Dallas, and Reasoner says the workload for the two teams is varied — unlike in the past, when energy-related litigation was primarily a Houston concern. Partners Veronica Lewis and Brian Robison in Dallas also garner praise from their peers.

“That’s probably diminished to the point of not great significance,” Reasoner says about the difference between Houston and Dallas antitrust practices, adding that the Vinson & Elkins teams work jointly on cases around the state. Not only that, but the firm’s Washington, DC-based antitrust team is also involved in several major cases, and handles a good deal of the firm’s merger work.

At the moment, the V&E antitrust team has been tied up in three major antitrust class actions, including two for client Huntsman International, in the titanium dioxide and urethane cartel cases, respectively. The firm is also representing an egg products company in a multi-district antitrust suit consolidated in the U.S. District Court for eastern Pennsylvania.

Other practice-wide clients have included SBC Communications in an antitrust suit filed by Premiere Network Services and Continental Airlines and First Southwest in the municipal bonds antitrust investigation. (Read the Global Competition Review's 2010 Texas State Survey.)

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