{"id":108198,"date":"2025-02-11T17:02:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T01:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/02\/11\/after-facing-repeated-trump-threats-panama-canal-authority-lawyers-up-with-top-biglaw-firm\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T17:02:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T01:02:52","slug":"after-facing-repeated-trump-threats-panama-canal-authority-lawyers-up-with-top-biglaw-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/02\/11\/after-facing-repeated-trump-threats-panama-canal-authority-lawyers-up-with-top-biglaw-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"After Facing Repeated Trump Threats, Panama Canal Authority Lawyers Up With Top Biglaw Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump has insisted that the U.S. will soon re-take control of the Panama Canal, making threat after threat<\/a>, and the Panama Canal Authority has officially lawyered up.<\/p>\n

As first noted by Reuters<\/a>, Vinson & Elkins \u2014 a firm that brought in $1,003,453,000 gross revenue in 2023, putting it at No. 54 on the most recent Am Law 100 \u2014 is providing \u201clegal and strategic advice\u201d to the Autoridad del Canal de Panama concerning relations with the U.S. government. Here are some additional details on the representation:<\/p>\n

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The work includes advising the canal authority and potentially engaging with U.S. officials in connection with \u201ccongressional inquiries, legislative actions, executive decisions, treaties, laws, and U.S. policy,\u201d the firm said in the filings, which were dated Jan. 31.<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the Vinson lawyers involved is\u00a0G. Zachary Terwilliger<\/a>, who served as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia during the first Republican Trump administration.<\/p>\n

Vinson, a Houston-founded firm with about 700 lawyers, said in its filings that Terwilliger and the other partners involved are billing the Panama Canal Authority between $1,050 and $1,500 an hour. The firm said it has spent $3.8 million in connection with its work, including more than $780,000 on \u201cprofessional fees relating to non-registerable legal services\u201d from U.S. law firm Mayer Brown.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ten Vinson lawyers are working on the matter, and the firm has received nearly $7 million in fees since November.<\/p>\n

Panama Canal Authority hires US law firm amid Trump threats<\/a> [Reuters]<\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The post After Facing Repeated Trump Threats, Panama Canal Authority Lawyers Up With Top Biglaw Firm<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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(Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

President Donald Trump has insisted that the U.S. will soon re-take control of the Panama Canal, making threat after threat<\/a>, and the Panama Canal Authority has officially lawyered up.<\/p>\n

As first noted by Reuters<\/a>, Vinson & Elkins \u2014 a firm that brought in $1,003,453,000 gross revenue in 2023, putting it at No. 54 on the most recent Am Law 100 \u2014 is providing \u201clegal and strategic advice\u201d to the Autoridad del Canal de Panama concerning relations with the U.S. government. Here are some additional details on the representation:<\/p>\n

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The work includes advising the canal authority and potentially engaging with U.S. officials in connection with \u201ccongressional inquiries, legislative actions, executive decisions, treaties, laws, and U.S. policy,\u201d the firm said in the filings, which were dated Jan. 31.<\/p>\n

Among the Vinson lawyers involved is\u00a0G. Zachary Terwilliger<\/a>, who served as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia during the first Republican Trump administration.<\/p>\n

Vinson, a Houston-founded firm with about 700 lawyers, said in its filings that Terwilliger and the other partners involved are billing the Panama Canal Authority between $1,050 and $1,500 an hour. The firm said it has spent $3.8 million in connection with its work, including more than $780,000 on \u201cprofessional fees relating to non-registerable legal services\u201d from U.S. law firm Mayer Brown.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ten Vinson lawyers are working on the matter, and the firm has received nearly $7 million in fees since November.<\/p>\n

Panama Canal Authority hires US law firm amid Trump threats<\/a> [Reuters]<\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI\/AFP via Getty Images) President Donald Trump has insisted that the U.S. will soon re-take control of the Panama Canal, making threat after threat, and the Panama Canal Authority has officially lawyered up. As first noted by Reuters, Vinson & Elkins \u2014 a firm that brought in $1,003,453,000 gross revenue in 2023, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":108199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Staci-Zaretsky-GqzBnd.jpeg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}