Gene E Godley

Gene E. Godley counsels and advises corporate clients on legislation, trade, tax, energy, regulatory affairs and international financial and transactional matters. Mr. Godley's significant experience includes representing Latin American companies in regulatory and transactional matters, including trade and finance laws. He is certified as a FINRA arbitrator by the International Centers for Arbitration. Mr. Godley combines his private practice with several public appointment positions. In the public sector, Mr. Godley has served in various management and legal positions, including being administrative assistant to Senators Ralph Yarborough of Texas and Tom Eagleton of Missouri, and as general counsel of two U.S. Senate Committees. In 1976, Mr. Godley was nominated by former President James Earl Carter and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as assistant secretary of the treasury for legislative affairs, where he received the Alexander Hamilton Award, the highest award of the treasury department. He is chairman of the Annapolis Port Warden, appointed by the mayor of Annapolis, where he has served since 1994. Mr. Godley has been appointed several times by the United States Trade Representative and secretary of commerce to the Industry Trade Advisory Committee (ITAC) on Energy for Trade Policy Matters. The committee provides advice on the concerns and interests of the private energy sector in regard to U.S. trade objectives. Mr. Godley served six years as the chairman of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of the Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP) of the joint United Nations Development Programme/World Bank. In the private sector, Mr. Godley has been a management consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton, served on the boards of two banks and several energy companies, was chairman of the board of an energy trading company. He has been in the general practice of law for corporate business clients with Bracewell & Giuliani LLP for almost 20 years. He has served as the managing partner of the Washington office and on the firm's management committee.