Mr. Charles Brannon Robertson

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Associate

  Firm Name

  Fernelius Simon PLLC
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Commercial Matters
  •Assisted an oilfield-services company in recovering millions from high-level employees who engaged in a sophisticated
  wide-ranging effort to steal the company's assets
  drive business to a competing company, which the employees secretly owned.
  •Represented a specialty-chemical maker that was sued for allegedly breaching contractual
  fiduciary duties related to various shared-facility agreements. Served as lead lawyer at the AAA arbitration. The panel denied any recovery to the claimant
  awarded $4 million to the client on its counterclaim.
  •Represented a Louisiana gas-storage facility in multiple lawsuits related to the construction of its facility.
  •Secured dismissal of a lawsuit brought against a borrower by a bank seeking to recover on its commercial loan.
  •Represented an East Texas gas-storage facility in multiple construction lawsuits.
  •Represented a large German real estate holding company in various U.S. real estate disputes, recovering millions in settlements.
  •Defended the owner of a compressed-air energy-storage facility in a suit brought by the engineering firm that performed the FEED work for the facility.
  •Successfully represented a broker in a NASD arbitration in which the broker was accused of mismanaging millions of dollars in investments.
  •Represented a foreign investment bank in a dispute regarding the sale of a gas-storage facility. The new owners claimed that the value of the asset was impaired by more than $100 million.
  •Successfully argued an appeal that led to a reversal of a trial court's refusal to send a case to arbitration. The matter involved an ownership dispute regarding a shared-services facility.
  •Represented a Malaysian E&P company that was refurbishing a drilling rig in a Galveston shipyard when it chose to cease work on the project. Numerous vendors providing services to the rig brought suit, claiming more than $10 million in damages. Represented the client in numerous lawsuits
  arbitrations stemming from the claims, which resulted in the client successfully exiting its obligations for a fraction of the value of the outst
  ing claims.
  •Represented two Norwegian banks in a lawsuit involving a drilling rig on which the banks held a $30 million note. Won a summary judgment establishing that the banks were the superior lien holders on the vessel.
  •Represented a petrochemical company in a construction dispute with the engineering firm that designed a $75 million chemical plant for the client.
  •Represented a majority shareholder that sold a high-deliverability, multicycle gas-storage facility for more than $500 million. A group of minority shareholders brought suit because they were dissatisfied with the price of the sale.

  
  Representative Tort Matters
  •Won a summary judgment in a Kentucky mass-tort case involving more than 1,000 individuals claiming personal injury from groundwater, soil
  air contamination. The motion ended more than a decade of litigation for an international manufacturing company. The American Lawyer covered the win in its “Big Suits” section.
  •Secured a multimillion-dollar judgment in Brazoria County, Texas, in a wrongful-death lawsuit for the parents of a woman who was killed in her home.
  •Recovered a high-value settlement for the mother of a girl killed in a boating accident.
  •Prepared amicus brief for an international oil company in Borg Warner v. Flores, the Texas Supreme Court's l
  mark decision regarding the proof of causation in a toxic-tort lawsuit.
  •Represented a multinational petroleum company in a lawsuit brought by hundreds of minors who lived near refineries in Port Arthur, Texas. The plaintiffs claimed that the emissions from plant operations impaired their health
  constituted a permanent nuisance. A Beaumont trial court dismissed the case on summary judgment,
  the decision was affirmed by the court of appeals.
  •Represented a major oil company whose crude-oil pipeline ruptured
  spilled thous
  s of barrels of oil into the coastal waters of Louisiana. The case was tried in New Orleans federal court.
  •Represented a major oil company in multiple suits stemming from allegations that naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) related to E&P activities had damaged the plaintiffs' health
  property. Was part of two trial teams for cases in Mississippi state court.
  •Represented a multinational oil
  gas company in property-damage lawsuits related to one of its legacy refineries in Montana.
  •Represented a multinational corporation in groundwater-contamination litigation in California stemming from its agricultural chemicals business.
  •Represented an international E&P company in a case involving property damages from a well blowout in South Texas.
  •Represented numerous petrochemical clients in premises-liability lawsuits stemming from asbestos, benzene
  vinyl-chloride exposure.
  •Defended energy clients in numerous wrongful-death
  serious-injury cases stemming from refinery
  oilfield accidents.
  •Represented oil-company defendants in Jones Act lawsuits involving offshore-drilling accidents.
  •Represented an oilfield-equipment manufacturer in a wrongful-death case stemming from a fracing job in South Texas.
  •Significant experience representing pharmaceutical clients in personal-injury cases.
  •Represented numerous medical-device manufacturers in product-liability cases.