Ferrell Keel

Practice Areas

Financial Markets; ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance)

Career

Ferrell is a securities and corporate governance lawyer who represents clients in a broad range of complex capital markets transactions, while also helping companies navigate some of the most consequential governance issues facing public companies today. In the last two years alone, Ferrell has led billions of dollars in securities offerings, testified before both a state and federal legislature and shaped the strategy of nationally significant litigation — emerging as a nationally-recognized thought leader who is reshaping the intersection of corporate governance, public policy, and capital markets.

Ferrell’s governance practice focuses on SEC rules and regulations, state corporate law, including redomiciliations to Texas, and high-stakes shareholder activism matters. In 2025, Ferrell served as an expert witness before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services in a hearing on "Proxy Power and Proposal Abuse: Reforming Rule 14a-8 to Protect Shareholder Value” and also testified before the Texas State Senate Committee on State Affairs on SB 2337, a first-of-its-kind regulation of proxy advisors. These achievements build on Ferrell's work as the lead SEC expert on the Jones Day team that represented ExxonMobil in its 2024 lawsuit against shareholder activists — a matter widely regarded as the defining proxy season development of that year.