Brandt Leibe defends companies and individuals in high-stakes government investigations, white-collar criminal matters, and complex litigation. When clients face scrutiny from the Department of Justice, the SEC, state attorneys general, and other authorities, they turn to Brandt for strategic defense advice, internal investigations, and compliance counseling that protect their businesses, their reputations, and their freedom.
Brandt represents clients in federal and state investigations, enforcement actions, and corporate internal inquiries, drawing on deep experience before U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and state attorneys general. Based in Houston, he is closely attuned to the enforcement priorities affecting energy, healthcare, life sciences, and financial services companies operating across Texas and the Gulf Coast.
His practice spans healthcare and government-program fraud, the False Claims Act and qui tam litigation, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and global anti-corruption compliance, trade and export controls, antitrust enforcement, and suspension and debarment. He guides audit committees and boards through sensitive internal investigations involving accounting irregularities and alleged misconduct, and he counsels companies on building compliance programs that hold up under regulatory scrutiny.
Brandt also maintains an active litigation practice that has taken him through every level of the federal courts — from Texas courts, to U.S. district courts in Texas and the Fifth Circuit, to the Supreme Court of the United States — in matters ranging from complex federal criminal cases to bankruptcy and corporate disputes. Clients rely on him to manage parallel criminal, civil, and regulatory proceedings while keeping the larger business objective firmly in view.
A frequent author and speaker on emerging enforcement trends, Brandt regularly addresses developments such as the growing use of state consumer-protection statutes and the corporate liability implications of foreign terrorist organization designations. Earlier in his career, he clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge J. Michael Luttig of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
