In the months since Enron Corp.’s stock took a nosedive and the Houston-based energy trading company filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Vinson & Elkins has been trying to free itself from the Enron morass.
Despite its intimate link to Enron in its role as the company’s longtime outside counsel, V&E severed its ties with Enron earlier this year. Although two of the firm’s partners testified about Enron in March before a congressional committee, the firm has largely avoided the mass of litigation that has been filed against Enron, its former officers and board members, and former accounting firm, Arthur Andersen. So far only Andersen and one of its former partners face criminal charges stemming from Enron’s downfall.
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