Angela B. Styles
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Government Contracts
- Contract & Grant Compliance and Administration
- CHIPS Act
- Cybersecurity, Privacy & Data Protection
- Government Contracts & Supply Chain
- Government Contracts & Grants Policy
- Claims, Disputes & Litigation
- Bid Protests
- False Claims Act/Qui Tam Defense
- Labor & Employment Issues Affecting Government Contractors
- Regulatory
- National Security
- Disputes & Investigations
- Education
- Technology
- Cost Accounting & Pricing
- Security Clearance
- Government Contracts Intellectual Property & Data Rights
- Freedom of Information Act
- General Services Administration Contracting
- State & Local Procurement
- Government Contracts Mergers & Acquisitions
- Suspension & Debarment
- Small Business Issues
- Semiconductors
- Metaverse
- Cloud Computing & Data Storage
- Aviation, Space & Defense
- Inspector General Investigations
- Advises through the full life cycle of the federal contracting and grants processes with a focus on critical supply chain issues related to implementation of National Defense Authorization Act Section 889 and the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC)
- Extensive experience in contracting matters with the departments of Defense, Commerce, Energy, Interior, Homeland Security, Labor and Veterans’ Affairs, as well as the General Services Administration. Deep experience with Paycheck Protection Program.
- Served as Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) at the White House.
With a practice spanning more than 25 years, Angela is among the most prominent government contracts and grants lawyers in the United States.
She is recognized for her deep experience in government procurement policy, cost and pricing issues, commercial item contracting, Other Transaction Authority agreements and compliance. Angela also assists clients in matters involving:
- CHIPS and Science Act
- Suspension and debarment
- Procurement integrity
- Civil false claims
- Anti-Kickback Act
- Schedule contracting
- Leasing
- Complex internal investigations
- Intellectual property
- Buy American Act and Trade Agreements Act.
She brings to bear her experience as an administrator for federal procurement policy within the OMB, a position that required confirmation by the U.S. Senate. For eight years, Angela also served in the role of executive director of the Defense Industry Initiative on Business Ethics and Conduct. Angela is also a member of the Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory, which was established by the University of Chicago, and chairs the audit committee of the laboratory.
Angela has testified about complex federal procurement issues at more than 30 hearings before committees for the Senate and U.S. House of Representatives, including:
- Senate Armed Services
- Senate Government Affairs
- House Armed Services
- House Veterans’ Affairs
- House Small Business
- House Government Reform.
Angela’s previous private practice experience includes chairing the government contracts practice at another international law firm and serving as that firm’s chair. She also worked as legislative aide for Congressman Joe Barton and the Governor of the State of Texas. Angela was also recently elected as a member of the University of Texas Chancellor’s Council Executive Committee and is a board member of the Texas Historical Foundation.
- Representation of multiple companies and universities operating within the National Lab complex.
- Successful representation of clients in suspension and debarment matters before nearly every federal agency.
- Successfully represented a large aerospace company before the Air Force Suspension and Debarment Office after receiving a show cause letter related to a subsidiary’s plea agreement.
- Advised a national commercial architecture firm regarding a closeout of an Administrative Agreement with the Department of Veterans Affairs.
- Represented a contractor for the National Job Corps in a successful appeal of a Department of Labor contracting officer decision that denied an overhead and general and administrative claim on a Job Corps contract to the Civilian Board of Contract Appeals.
EducationJ.D., University of Texas School of Law, 1994
B.A., University of Virginia, with honors, 1990
J.D., University of Texas School of Law, 1994
B.A., University of Virginia, with honors, 1990
Bar AdmissionsDistrict of Columbia
Texas
District of Columbia
Texas
- Chambers USA, Leading Practitioner in Government Contracts, USA, Nationwide, 2008-2024; described as a “highly trusted adviser on all things government contracts-related.”
- The Legal 500 US, Government Contracts, 2019-2024.
- Office of Management and Budget, Outstanding Service Award.
- General Services Administration, Commendable Service Award.
- Federal 100 Award.
- Board member and chair of audit committee, UChicago, Argonne National Laboratory.
- Champion, Center for Women in Law
- Board member, Texas Historical Foundation.
- Member, University of Texas Chancellor’s Council Executive Committee
- Founder and co-President, Das Leben Foundation
- Former Board member, Public Buildings Reform Board
- 4th Networking & Leadership Forum for Women in Defense and Aerospace Law & Compliance, “Views from General Counsel: Successful Strategies to Enhance Your Compliance Program,” February 5, 2019, Washington, D.C.
- ABA Section of Public Contract Law Annual Meeting, “How the Sausage Gets Made: FAR/DFARS Rulemaking and the Interplay Between Administrative Law and Procurement Law,” August 2018, Chicago, Illinois.