Senior vice president and general counsel?and corporate secretary | CenterPoint Energy
Executive vice president, general counsel and secretary | Reinsurance Group of America
Executive vice president, chief legal officer, government affairs and corporate secretary | Peabody Energy
A. Verona Dorch, executive vice president, chief legal officer, government affairs and corporate secretary, is a recognised leader in the American in-house legal community and the leader of the legal...
Executive vice president, general counsel and secretary | Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings
Responsible for directing the Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings’ (AAWW) legal and regulatory affairs as well as overseeing all compliance matters, Adam R. Kokas has played a leading role in a...
Senior executive vice president, general counsel and secretary | The Walt Disney Company
Senior associate general counsel - legal operations and outside counsel management | Walmart
Originally from Arkansas, Alan Bryan spent a highly successful decade practicing with Little Rock-based Friday, Eldredge & Clark – where he eventually became partner. He decided during the course of...
Executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary | Hemisphere Media Group
Alex J. Tolston is general counsel of Hemisphere Media Group, a leading publicly traded Spanish-language media company that operates television networks in the US and Latin America. One nominator says...
Executive vice president, chief legal officer and corporate secretary | World Fuel Services
Senior vice president and general counsel | Promethean
Allyson Krause, senior vice president and general counsel at Promethean, is a highly skilled in-house lawyer with almost 10 years of experience at the helm of global legal operations for...
Executive vice president, general counsel and secretary | WellCare Health Plans
Formerly an equity partner in the intellectual property litigation department at Foley & Lardner and an associate with Latham & Watkins, Anat Hakim’s in-house legal career began with Abbott Laboratories...
Senior vice president and general counsel | Akridge
Joining Akridge, a company with 33 years of operating history that had never had an in-house legal department, allowed Andy Pace to pave the way the legal function operates for...
Executive vice president and general counsel | Apache Corporation
Anthony Lannie assumed his current position as general counsel of Apache in 2003, having served as president of Kinder Morgan Power Company and president of Shell Oil Company’s subsidiary Coral...
General counsel | SoundCloud
In 2018, Antonious Porch joined Berlin-based digital company SoundCloud, which is the world’s largest music and audio platform as its general counsel. Prior to joining SoundCloud, he served as general...
Senior vice president, chief legal officer and corporate secretary | Meritor
In addition to her time as a law firm partner, a managing partner, and a member of an eight-person law firm executive committee, April Miller Boise has been a general...
Executive vice president, general counsel | Starz Entertainment
Audrey Lee, executive vice president, general counsel of Starz Entertainment, has extensive experience in the media legal industry through multiple executive in-house positions at leading cinematic production companies. She previously...
Executive vice president, general counsel and assistant secretary | Community Health Systems
Chief strategy officer | Genius
Ben Gross, chief strategy officer at Genius, has been with the company since it started, initially handling everything from its legal affairs as its general counsel, to running its finance,...
General counsel and secretary | Blue Apron
After seven years of working in private practice and developing expertise in technology M&A, venture financings, private equity and other corporate and commercial transactions, Benjamin Singer moved in-house to join...
Senior vice president and general counsel | Betterment
Since Benjamin T. Alden joined leading independent robo-adviser Betterment in 2014, the company has grown from several dozen employees to several hundred, and has increased its assets under management by...
Chief legal officer | The Dreyfus Corporation
‘My advice [to aspiring general counsel] is to learn as much as possible about the business you support and the industry you cover’, Bennett A. MacDougall, chief legal officer of...
General counsel | GoHealth
After an eight year career in private practice in elite Chicago law firms, Brad Burd moved in-house joining the then rapidly expanding start-up health insurance provider GoHealth in 2011. Burd...
Group vice president, chief administrative officer and general counsel | Ford Motor
Executive vice president, general counsel and chief compliance officer | Gilead Sciences
Executive vice president, chief administrative officer and general counsel | United Continental Holdings
Vice president and general counsel | SimpliSafe
‘Trusted. Innovative. Practical. Three words come to mind when describing both Brian Bloch, and the company he calls home. As the vice president and general counsel of SimpliSafe, a technology...
Chief legal officer | Coinbase
In September 2018 Brian P. Brooks embarked on the latest chapter of his formidable career by joining Coinbase, the digital currency exchange platform based in in San Francisco, as their...
Executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary | Southwire Company
Executive vice president, chief legal officer, chief ethics and compliance officer and corporate secretary | Republic Services
Executive vice president, general counsel and secretary | Nestlé Waters North America
Executive vice president and general counsel Charlie Broll, leads a legal team of 15 professionals including regulatory staff at Nestlé Waters North America, and is based in Stamford, Connecticut. He...
General counsel | DreamHost
In a very short amount of time, Chris Ghazarian has seen his career transform from a legal intern to a trusted advisor for his CEO and board at DreamHost, a...
General counsel, chief privacy officer and corporate secretary | Reputation.com
A highly experieinced chief legal executive with more than 25 years’ experience working with a variety of high growth technology and internet companies, Chris Sundermeier, general counsel, chief privacy officer...
Chief legal officer | FanDuel
Christian Genetski joined FanDuel, a web-based fantasy sports game with six million registered users, as chief legal officer in January 2015, as the first in-house counsel. Over time, he built...
General counsel | Vista Equity Partners
When Christina Lema joined Vista Equity Partners in 2012, it was a private equity-focused firm with two product lines, $6bn under management and employing around 50 staff, most of whom...
Senior vice president, general counsel, corporate secretary and chief compliance officer | Ingredion
Joining Ingredion Incorporated in September 1996 after an associate income partner position with McDermott Will & Emery, as well as a period as a judicial clerk at the United States...
Chief legal officer | BlackRock
Leader of the company’s legal and compliance group and a member of its global executive committee, Christopher J. Meade is BlackRock’s general counsel and chief legal officer. He has been...
Vice president, chief IP counsel | Sarepta Therapeutics
‘Christopher J. Verni oversees the contentious and non-contentious patent and trademark work for Sarepta Therapeutics. He orchestrated a successful strategy involving patent proceedings in the US and across Europe adverse...
Executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary | Conagra Brands
Chief of staff and senior director of legal operations | NetApp
1. ‘Under Connie Brenton’s leadership as senior director of legal operations, the NetApp legal department transformed from an expensive cost centre to an award-winning, barrier breaking, sales-enhancing centre. Brenton’s focus...
General counsel | Zipline International Inc.
Conor French began his career in the Los Angeles and New York offices of Latham & Watkins as an attorney in the firm’s corporate department and capital markets practice group....
Chief legal officer and head of operations | OnDeck
Cory R. Kampfer joined OnDeck as general counsel in 2011 and was promoted to chief legal officer in 2015, having previous experience as a corporate associate at Paul Weiss in...
Senior vice president, general counsel and secretary | Archer Daniels Midland
In his role as senior vice president, general counsel and secretary at Fortune 50 company Archer Daniels Midland, D. Cameron Findlay oversees the global legal, compliance, regulatory, government relations and...
Deputy commissioner, Baseball Administration and chief legal officer | Major League Baseball
Vice president and general counsel | Group 1 Automotive
‘Darryl M. Burman, Group 1 Automotive’s vice president and general counsel, was named the company’s first general counsel in late 2006. Burman led Group 1’s acquisitions of various UK auto...
Senior vice president, chief legal and sustainability officer and corporate secretary | Eastman Chemical
General counsel and secretary | Avanade
Since joining Avanade as its general counsel in 2010, David Oskandy has built a global team of 55 highly effective legal and compliance professionals operating across 24 countries. Particularly proud...
General counsel | KKR
‘David Sorkin, general counsel of KKR and a member of the executive committee, is among the most influential figures in the private equity industry. KKR has relied on Sorkin for...
Executive vice president, general counsel, chief compliance officer and secretary | Huntsman
Executive vice president of government affairs, general counsel and corporate secretary | PepsiCo
Senior vice president legal affairs, general counsel and secretary | RR Donnelley & Sons (RRD)
Formerly a federal prosecutor at the US Attorney’s Office in Chicago and one of the founding forces behind the first Inspector General’s Office for the State of Illinois, Deborah L....
General counsel and head of human resources | (FORMERLY OF) Zulily
Deirdre Runnette is a highly accomplished and skilled general counsel who has made a name for herself in the technology industry. She has 20 years of experience in private practice...
Senior vice president and general counsel | National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS)
Don L. Bell began his career working in the Washington DC office of Proskauer Rose LLP as a healthcare associate, before joining the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS)...
Chief legal officer and business affairs | Pokémon
Don McGowan, chief legal officer and business affairs at Pokémon, started at Pokémon as general counsel in August 2008, receiving the promotion to chief legal officer and business affairs in...
General counsel | Cloudflare
Douglas Kramer joined Cloudflare in August 2017 after serving in the Obama Administration for seven years. His time there was nothing short of impressive, as during the Obama Administration he...
Vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary | Vantage Drilling International
Senior vice president, general counsel, chief ethics and compliance officer and corporate secretary | United States Steel
Chief legal officer and general counsel | Prologis
‘Ed S. Nekritz performs far-reaching duties for Prologis, the largest global owner-operator and developer of high-quality logistics real estate with assets under management of $72bn. Most of its consolidated properties...
Senior vice president, general counsel | Walgreens Boots Alliance
‘Elena Kraus is a very smart professional, an excellent lawyer, a caring conscientious manager, and a fantastic business partner. Calm under pressure and politically astute, she is an asset for...
Vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary | MorganFranklin
Described by nominators as ‘exceedingly bright and hardworking’ Eric D. Reicin serves as vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary for the global organisation MorganFranklin Consulting, as well as its...
Senior vice president, general counsel and secretary | Terex
A highly proactive individual with excellent interpersonal skills who prioritises building high levels of trust with business partners through face-to-face interactions, (one of his personal mantras being “email is evil”),...
Senior vice-president, legal and compliance and general counsel | Sapphire Digital
After graduating from Seton Hall Law School and working in private practice Eric Welsh Gross joined St Josephs’ Healthcare System as associate general counsel in 2011 before leaving to join...
Senior vice president and general counsel | Major League Baseball Properties
With the estimated cost of piracy and counterfeiting projected by some estimates to reach into the trillions of dollars by the early 2020s, Major League Baseball’s (MLB) globally popular sporting...
Chief legal officer (Americas) | StormHarbour Securities
Evan R. Berman serves as the chief legal officer for StormHarbour Securities, an independent global markets and financial advisory firm founded by financial experts Antonio Cacorino, Fredrick Chapey and Sohail...
Chief legal officer, corporate secretary and senior vice president of corporate affairs | Laboratory Corp. of America
General counsel, international transactions and compliance | Honeywell International
Executive vice president, general counsel, chief compliance and ethics officer, chief risk officer and corporate secretary | ON Semiconductor
George Cave is a celebrated and experienced in-house counsel based in Arizona with copious international experience, including a seven year stint in Switzerland covering Eastern European and Chinese legal business...
Executive vice president corporate and legal affairs and general counsel | Mondelēz International
In the capacity of executive vice president, corporate and legal affairs and general counsel, Gerhard W. Pleuhs leads the legal, corporate secretarial, compliance and security functions as well as corporate...
Senior executive vice president and group general counsel, chief compliance officer | Twenty-First Century Fox
Director and senior vice president, general counsel and secretary | Enterprise Products Partners
Senior vice president and senior counsel | E*TRADE
James E. Ballowe, Jr. joined E*TRADE Financial Corporation in June 2001, supporting the legal aspects of its pioneering presence in the online brokerage industry. He was offered the opportunity to...
Executive vice president, general counsel and secretary | Forum Energy Technologies
A veteran lawyer in the offshore energy sector, James L. McCulloch has worked for over 40 years in different aspects of the industry along the Gulf Coast. This includes his...
Senior vice president and general counsel | Par Pacific
Before joining Par Pacific in July 2014, James Matthew Vaughn has accrued14 years of experience in private practice as an associate and then equity partner at Porter Hedges in Houston,...
Senior vice president legal, general counsel and corporate secretary | ConocoPhillips
Executive vice president of law and external affairs and general counsel | Reynolds American
Executive vice president of business affairs and chief legal and compliance officer | Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment (BSE)
‘Jeff B. Gewirtz is responsible for advising BSE’s board of advisory directors and executive management on key legal, business, and strategic matters for BSE’s broad sports and entertainment industry holdings....
General counsel and corporate secretary | Ipsoft
1. ‘Jerry Levine has over 10 years of legal practice experience that ranges from working in a firm, owning his own firm and being in-house. Recently, Levine entered a company...
Executive vice president, deputy general counsel and corporate secretary | Cardinal Health
Senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary | PPL
‘Joanne H. Raphael is the senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary for one of the largest investor-owned companies in the US utility sector. As general counsel, Raphael has...
Executive vice president, general counsel and secretary | Heartland Dental
John Pantazis began his career as a law clerk to Judge Richard C. Wesley before starting in private practice with Ropes & Gray in Boston. In 2012, Pantazis moved to...
Managing general counsel | Fluor
‘John Reynolds is a great counsel for a variety of issues related to construction and engineering contracts and related claims. He has vast experience of negotiating, accompanied with a commercial...
Executive vice president and general counsel | Warner Bros.
John Rogovin’s formula for success as an in-house lawyer is no-nonsense but undoubtedly highly effective. ‘Put your head down and work hard’, he says; ‘people notice’. This conscientiousness, extreme work...
General counsel and corporate secretary | The Jackson Laboratory
John Ryan, general counsel and secretary of The Jackson Laboratory, is a well-rounded corporate and commercial lawyer with over 10 years of experience in the in-house sector, as well as...
Chief legal and administrative officer and corporate secretary, office of legal and administrative affairs | Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Chief counsel, employment, benefits and governance | Marsh & McLennan Companies
Graduating law school in 1988, John Hamlin’s first professional position was as a legal clerk with Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia Hon....
Senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary | Varian Medical Systems
John W. Kuo joined US radiation oncology treatments and software maker company Varian Medical Systems in 2003, initially as associate general counsel focusing in the areas of securities, corporate governance...
Chief legal officer and general counsel | NPR
Before becoming chief legal officer and general counsel of NPR in 2014, Jon Hart spent 27 years in private practice. Hart joined Dow Lohnes & Albertson in 1986, became a...
Senior vice president, general counsel and secretary | Amgen
‘[Jonathan Graham is] senior vice president, general counsel and secretary at Amgen. [He is] advisor to the board, CEO, and senior management on strategic business, legal, governance and related matters...
Executive vice president, Global Enterprise Solutions and general counsel | NTT America
Vice president and general counsel | Minted
After making partner at Kirkland, Jordan Zamir was recruited to join Jones Day’s Palo Alto office to help grow their technology corporate practice. In addition to M&A he also spent...
Chief legal officer | QBE North America
Jose Ramon Gonzalez, chief legal officer for QBE North America, began his legal career in 1995 at the New York office of Weil, Gotshal and Manges (WGM), after completing his...
Executive vice president, general counsel and strategic initiatives | Amarin Corporation
One year before joining Amarin, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the commercialisation and development of therapeutics to improve cardiovascular health, Joseph T. Kennedy was honoured as an Irish-American by the...
General counsel, local media group | Meredith
Joshua N. Pila joined the in-house media legal industry after working in private practice in Washington DC. He moved in-house with a television broadcaster based in Providence, RI named LIN...
Executive vice president, global general counsel, corporate secretary and chief compliance officer | Gap
Julie Gruber has amassed an extremely detailed knowledge of Gap’s operations over the course of an extremely long and successful tenure with the global clothing titan. Joining the company in...
Executive vice president (external affairs), chief legal officer and corporate secretary | Duke Energy
Managing director and chief legal officer | Silver Lake
Karen King is at the vanguard of developing a more comprehensive in-house legal function at private equity firms. During her 13 years at Silver Lake, she has built a 16...
Executive vice president, general counsel and secretary | Discover Financial Services
Senior vice president, chief legal officer and secretary | American Air Liquide Holdings
Air Liquide USA has a 100 year history in the US market and today has more than 20,000 employees in more than 1,300 locations across the country. Air Liquide offers...
Executive vice president and general counsel | Hilton Worldwide Holdings
‘Kristin Campbell, executive vice president and general counsel for Hilton Worldwide, is one of the most innovative general counsels in the country. She joined Hilton in 2011 and is responsible...
Executive vice president, general counsel and chief compliance officer | US Foods Holding
Senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary | NGL Energy Partners
Executive vice president, external affairs, general counsel and corporate secretary | AbbVie
Executive vice president, corporate strategy, regulatory affairs and chief legal officer | FirstEnergy
Executive vice president and general counsel | Astellas
A highly respected healthcare legal mind, Linda Friedman, executive vice president and general counsel at Astellas, has over 30 years of experience to lead the global legal affairs for the...
Senior director, legal operations and chief of staff | Adobe
In 2004, Lisa J. Konie joined Adobe, the world-leading digital media and marketing solutions provider, as a licensing lawyer supporting outbound licensing. Over the course of the next four or...
General counsel and chief compliance officer | Battery Ventures
‘Lizette Pérez-Deisboeck is one of the most professional general counsels I have worked with. She is pleasant to work with, cooperative and always willing to help. In the many years...
Executive vice president, general counsel and chief compliance officer | McKesson
1. ‘As a young lawyer, Lori Schechter’s career ambitions did not include becoming general counsel of a Fortune 500 company. She spent many years as a well-respected lawyer in private...
Executive vice president, chief business affairs and legal officer | PayPal
With over 20 years in leadership roles and the past decade spent as a C-Suite level executive, Louise Pentland brings a global understanding of business, leadership, innovation and culture to...
Vice president - global head, GPS (manufacturing and product development) and EHS (environmental) law | Bristol-Myers Squibb
‘Luis Vilarin is a terrific commercial lawyer. Among other [things], he shaped an innovative temporary outsourcing model with an international law firm specialised in life sciences, providing support to its...
Senior vice president and senior deputy general counsel | Comcast
Lynn Charytan cites managing a team of lawyers as one of the most rewarding tasks she’s been responsible for: ‘Offering them support and recognition, along with opportunities to learn, take...
Senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary | Loews Corporation
After 30 years of excelling in private practice with the law firm Chadbourne & Parke, where he was named as a “leading lawyer” in M&A by The Legal 500 for...
General counsel, corporate secretary and chief government affairs officer | Yum Brands
Senior vice president, general counsel and chief compliance officer | Occidental Petroleum
Executive vice president, global chief administrative officer and general counsel | Walgreens Boots Alliance
Executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary | WEC Energy Group
Senior vice president, legal affairs, general counsel and secretary | eBay
Marie Oh Huber took on her role with eBay at a pivotal time for the company, providing an immediate challenge for her which she relished: ‘When I joined eBay, the...
General counsel | National Airlines
Mark M. McMillin is the general counsel for National Airlines, a major aviation firm which is primarily a US military contractor. He began his career after being admitted to the...
Associate general counsel, global M&A | eBay
‘I have worked with Mark Mendoza in a few M&A deals [when he was] representing Yahoo! in acquisitions of Israeli companies. He is an extremely talented lawyer with strong business...
Vice president, general counsel and secretary | Lennar Corporation
Mark Sustana joined Lennar in 2005, and was required to create ‘legal and governance functions to satisfy a board consisting entirely of newly appointed members’ following the extremely difficult situation...
Senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary | Express Scripts Holding
Executive vice president and chief legal officer | Children's National Health System (CNHS)
Mary Anne Hilliard, executive vice president and chief legal officer for Children’s National Health System (CNHS), started her career as a pediatric nurse, demonstrating a passion for children’s health and...
Senior legal counsel | Fluor
‘Mary Holohan provides in-depth legal knowledge of engineering and construction, as well as procurement and services related to these industries, being a true asset for contracts and procurement practices within...
Senior vice president, general counsel, and secretary | NetApp
‘As general counsel, Matthew Fawcett has led the transformation and development of NetApp legal into a cutting-edge, award-winning organisation. After leading a major change effort to overhaul what had been...
Executive vice president, general counsel, chief corporate affairs officer and secretary | Cognizant
General counsel | Rosebud Mining
General counsel at Rosebud Mining, the third largest coal producer in Pennsylvania, Matthew Mazefsky has served in this role since June 2013. Working for a company that has 750 employees...
Executive vice president and general counsel | TCW
An expert in banking and finance law, Meredith S. Jackson, executive vice president and general counsel at TCW, is recognised for her outstanding technical ability and leadership throughout her career....
General counsel | The Georgetown Company
‘Trained at Skadden, Michael Busch is a highly regarded general counsel. He is widely respected, and relied upon by his company in this key legal and business role. He is...
Executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary | Fidelity National Financial
Executive vice president, general counsel and secretary | Live Nation Entertainment
Michael Rowles, executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of Live Nation Entertainment, a market leading live music organisation and online ticketing platform, has extensive experience in building a company...
Senior vice president, corporate and legal affairs and chief of staff, secretary | Henry Schein
General counsel and corporate secretary | Smoothie King
‘Michael Sukenik is a great, thoughtful lawyer who joined Smoothie King in March 2018 and, in the short time he has been there, built an entire legal department from the...
Senior vice president law and human resources, general counsel and secretary | Versum Materials
Michael W. Valente is the senior vice president, law and human resources, general counsel and secretary for Versum Materials, overseeing the company’s law, human resources, intellectual property, corporate secretary, communications...
Group general counsel | Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) Financial Group
Michael Zuckert joined Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in 2014 as general counsel after stints at Citibank, Morgan Stanley, The Street, and in private practice at Willkie Farr & Gallagher. Highlights...
Vice president and general counsel | Turo
Michelle Fang started her career as a trademark and business litigator at Quinn Emanuel in 2000 before moving in-house in 2004, first doing litigation at NBC Universal and then at...
Senior vice president, general counsel and secretary | U.S. LBM
Michelle Pollock has served as general counsel of US LBM Holdings, since March 2016. Pollock trained in Australia before moving to New York and working in other in-house corporate counsel...
Executive vice president, chief legal and administrative officer and corporate secretary | Office Depot
Chief legal officer, executive vice president | Booz Allen Hamilton
Nancy Laben is a highly distinguished in-house lawyer with extensive Fortune 500 and private company expertise in developing, managing and overseeing risk mitigation, litigation, corporate and legal programmes. She was...
Vice president and associate general counsel | AT&T Services
Following an extensive spell in private practice, in 2000 Neal Berinhout joined the Cingular Wireless legal department initially as chief litigation counsel. At the time Cingular Wireless was a joint...
General counsel, chief compliance officer and corporate secretary | Carestream Dental
Noni L. Ellison is Carestream Dental’s general counsel, chief compliance officer and corporate secretary. As the leader of Carestream Dental’s legal and compliance teams, she manages legal and business professionals...
General counsel and corporate secretary | TriMark USA
Otis Carter started his career at Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago in 2006 before moving to Ropes & Gray, practicing there for approximately four years and then leaving to become...
Executive vice president, legal and government affairs, general counsel, corporate secretary | Phillips 66
Head of legal, North America | Agoda
Paulette Fox has served as the head of legal, North America for Agoda since April 2018, where she is responsible for establishing an in-house counsel presence for worlds leading online...
Executive vice president and general counsel | Marsh & McLennan Companies
Peter Beshar began his legal career in government, firstly for a federal judge in New York and then as special assistant to former secretary of state Cyrus Vance, as part...
Global general counsel | Allianz Global Investors
Peter Bonanno joined Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) as United States general counsel in 2012 when the firm was undergoing significant restructuring. In adapting the legal and compliance function, he challenged...
General counsel, corporate development | Mars, Incorporated
Since joining the Mars legal leadership team in 2005, Peter M. Seka, general counsel, corporate development has built a proven track record of success on many of Mars’ most complex...
Senior vice president and chief legal and compliance officer | Schneider Electric
‘Every day, Peter Wexler deals with a different problem on a different continent as chief legal and compliance officer of Schneider Electric, a Fortune 500 global energy management company with...
Global chief intellectual property counsel | Imerys
‘As Imerys’ global chief intellectual property counsel, Radha Murphy leads the IP department and works with Imerys’ various business units around the world to develop and implement systems for managing...
Senior vice president, general counsel | IPG - Intertape Polymer Group
Randi M. Booth, senior vice president and general counsel, oversees the legal function for the Intertype Polymer Group. Her remit includes governance matters, corporate contract matters, litigation, securities and regulatory...
Senior vice president, global general counsel and corporate secretary | Kraft Heinz
Executive vice president, chief legal officer and secretary | Northwestern Mutual
Executive vice president and general counsel | Marriott International
Rena Hozore Reiss, executive vice president and general counsel of Marriott International, rejoined Marriott as general counsel in December 2017. She had served as executive vice president, general counsel and...
Senior vice president and general counsel | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
‘I have had the honour and pleasure of working with Richard S. Boskey of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (“DFCI”) on a significant number of matters. Boskey is a fantastic general counsel...
Senior vice president, general counsel and secretary | ManpowerGroup
Joining ManpowerGroup as general counsel in 2013 after a private practice career on Wall Street, and an in-house career operating both with start-up firms and a large multinational in the...
Executive vice president and chief legal officer | Belmond USA
Before joining the hotels industry, Richard M. Levine established his in-house credentials in the private equity sphere having started his in-house career as general counsel for Credit Suisse’s private equity...
Chief legal officer | Aspen Dental Management
After clerking for the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, Richard Parr spent six years in private practice with major law firms before...
Executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary | Charter Communications
Senior vice president, legal, general counsel and corporate secretary | Luminex Corporation
General counsel | PrecisionHawk
‘Previously general counsel at RedHat for 12 years, Rick Statile is now general counsel at PrecisionHawk, a leading provider of drone technology for the enterprise. PrecisionHawk’s client list includes Fortune...
Executive vice president, chief legal and compliance officer and corporate secretary | Pier 1 Imports
Robert Bostrom has been at the forefront of the New York City legal scene for many years, having practiced in the finance sector both privately and in-house during the boom...
Senior executive vice president, general counsel, secretary and chief corporate governance officer | BB&T
General counsel and managing director | EIG Global Energy Partners
After a strong private practice career, and proving that he could successfully organise and grow project finance departments at three different law firms, in April 2008, Robert L. Vitale left...
Vice president and general counsel | Lumina Networks
Robert Scott Weber, vice president and general counsel at Lumina Networks, started his career as a litigator in private practice and made the move in-house over 20 years ago. He...
Senior vice president, general counsel and chief labor relations officer | HCA Healthcare
‘Robert Waterman, senior vice president and general counsel of HCA since 1997, is a legal pioneer in the healthcare industry. Waterman oversees the 116-lawyer legal department at Nashville-based HCA Healthcare,...
General counsel, vice president law and human resources | KLX
‘As general counsel and vice president, law and human resources of KLX, Roger Franks serves as a key member of the company’s senior management team. KLX is the world’s leading...
Senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary | AGCO
Having joined AGCO in 2000, Roger Batkin has extensive knowledge of the world-leading agricultural solution provider’s operations, which he draws upon as the company’s senior vice president, general counsel and...
Executive vice president, chief legal officer and secretary | Colony NorthStar
Having previously been an associate, and then a partner, at Rogers & Wells, which merged into Clifford Chance, working primarily on M&A and private fund formation, Ronald M. Sanders, joined...
Executive vice president, general counsel, corporate secretary and government affairs | Dean Foods
A Fortune 500 company, Dean Foods is a food and beverage company with 16,000 employees and annual sales of approximately $8bn. In 2016, the firm hired the highly experienced Russell...
Executive vice president and general counsel | Jackson Square Aviation
Ryan Opeka began his career in private practice at Veddar Price, working in its global transportation finance division. There he organised aircraft and railcar transactions and developed his skill in...
General counsel executive vice president and secretary | Healthsmart
As an administrator of health plans for self-funded employers, HealthSmart provides care management solutions, electronic information services and prescription solutions. General counsel Sarah Bittner joined HealthSmart initially as associate general...
Senior vice president, general counsel | Baxter International
As the senior vice president and general counsel of Baxter, one of the world’s largest medical technology companies that operates in over 100 countries with annual revenues in excess of...
Chief legal officer | William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
After a career in private practice including in-house positions at Morgan Stanley and a stint as a general counsel of a public company, Seth Krauss joined William Morris Endeavor Entertainment...
General counsel and corporate secretary | NII Holdings
Shana C. Smith, vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of NII Holdings, is responsible for advising senior management and the board of directors on all legal matters for the...
Executive vice president, chief legal officer and general counsel | New York Life Insurance
Executive vice president, general counsel and chief administrative officer | CenturyLink
General counsel | New Enterprise Associates
Stephanie Brecher, general counsel of New Enterprise Associates (NEA), began her career as a federal court law clerk and in private practice at several top law firms after graduating from...
Vice president, deputy general counsel and assistant secretary | Sherwin-Williams
Senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary | Adtalem Global Education
Executive vice president, general counsel and secretary | Aramark
Steve Reynolds is highly distinguished in the US in-house legal market having been named the global general counsel of two Fortune 200 companies in his career. Prior to taking his...
Senior vice president and general counsel | Catalent
Steven L. Fasman operates as the senior vice president and general counsel for Catalent, working within a highly regulated industry with over 30 factories spread across five continents. This has...
Senior counsel, vice president | Citizens Bank
‘As a litigator turned regulatory consultant turned business line attorney, Sumeet H. Chugani has worked tirelessly to sharpen his legal craft and increasingly add skill sets. Presently, Chugani is the...
Executive vice president and general counsel | Allstate
Susan L. Lees offers an almost unparalleled level of experience to her company Allstate, having been with the company for approximately 30 years straight after finishing law school, originally in...
Executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary | Advance Auto Parts
Executive vice president - general counsel and corporate secretary | The Home Depot
Executive vice president and general counsel, law and regulatory affairs | Aetna
Chief counsel, intellectual property | Bridgestone Americas
‘Thomas Kingsbury is a very busy man. As chief IP counsel for Bridgestone, he is charged with protecting and enforcing some of the world’s best-known and respected brands (including BRIDGESTONE,...
Executive vice president, chief policy and external affairs officer and general counsel | CVS Health
Executive vice president, general counsel and secretary | Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc
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For over 30 years, The Legal 500 has been analysing the capabilities of law firms across the world. The GC Powerlist is the latest publication from The Legal 500, turning its attention to the in-house function, and recognising those corporate counsel who are driving the legal business forward. The latest edition is the GC Powerlist: United States, which identifies an array of the most influential and innovative in-house counsel working in the region…read more
We have canvassed opinions from law firm partners and in-house counsel across the US, to identify corporate counsel that have been instrumental in changing or forming opinions within their company or industry; developing brilliant technical solutions to complex issues; creating innovative structures to ensure that the in-house function is driving the business forward; or providing a business working model that other corporate counsel should follow. Our team of experienced researchers assessed the nominations, speaking both to general counsel and nominating lawyers to finalise each list. The GC Powerlist: United States features not just information on why that individual has made the list, but also comment from those in-house lawyers about how they have helped shape innovation in the legal industry.
If you have feedback on the GC Powerlist: United States, or wish to nominate other in-house individuals (either in the US or global), please do get in touch at corporatecounsel@legal500.com.
We hope that this listing will stimulate debate around the role of the in-house lawyer and help corporate counsel with possible improvements and efficiencies in running their departments.
David Burgess
Publishing Director
Corporate sustainability is increasingly important for business success; but the GC’s role in helping to drive corporate sustainability is less well understood. Members of the Powerlist drive some of the world’s best legal teams. I would like to take this opportunity not only to congratulate them on their recognition in the Powerlist, but also to share my excitement at the great opportunity they have to learn from each other and to drive the corporate sustainability agenda in their businesses, with corresponding benefits for themselves, their businesses, and the wider world.
What is sustainability, and why is it important?
The United Nations Global Compact defines sustainability as a company’s delivery of “long-term value in financial, social, environmental and ethical terms.”
This definition makes it clear that sustainability is not about abandoning profits – on the contrary, businesses need to make sufficient profits to ensure their continued flourishing.
It is more a recognition that the business, economic and societal landscape has changed significantly in the last few years, and that these changes – ranging from the ongoing fallout of the Global Financial Crisis, the increasing anxiety about climate change, the renewed focus on diversity in the light of movements such as #MeToo, and many more – have resulted in governments, shareholders, consumers, employees and other stakeholders placing greater emphasis on concepts such as governance, accountability, transparency, compliance and the “social licence to operate”. In addition, despite the political rhetoric in the US, business continues to be global and interconnected – and this interconnectivity means that risks to sustainability can come from an ever-increasing number of sources.
Managing these increasing stakeholder expectations has obvious benefits in relation to managing downside risk from litigation, negative publicity, and so on. But managing these expectations is also increasingly a source of upside, too: witness the increasing focus on “ESG” measures in stock screening, or the importance of corporate culture and responsibility for attracting the best and brightest young recruits.
Why should GCs be involved in driving sustainability?
Managing stakeholders’ increasingly demanding expectations in the area of sustainability will require leadership and knowledge. I believe that GCs are extremely well placed to offer that leadership and knowledge, for several reasons.
Firstly, many issues in relation to sustainability are couched in terms of risk management and risk mitigation: both key parts of the fundamental skillset of the GC.
Secondly, sustainability is an issue that touches every part of business strategy and operations – and GCs’ remit already makes them extremely conversant with all parts of the business, whether in relation to regulations, contracting or dispute resolution.
Finally, we are seeing a trend whereby “soft law”, voluntary standards and best practice in sustainability are increasingly becoming enshrined in “hard law”, meaning that managing sustainability is increasingly becoming an issue for legal counsel to consider in any case.
Over the last few years, my colleagues and I, in collaboration with the United National Global Compact, have spoken on the subject of sustainability to dozens of GCs in businesses operating in all sectors across the world. These conversations uncovered a plethora of ways in which GCs can and will drive corporate sustainability – ranging from tying compliance programmes to business ethics and values, using big data tools to track trends and risks and take preventative action, conducting human rights and supply chain due diligence, establishing redress mechanisms via strengthening traditional judicial institutions alongside tailored private alternatives, and many more.
This wide range of activities not only drives the sustainability agenda, but also showcases the value that the GC brings to the table in the boardroom. I invite all participants in this year’s Powerlist to talk to their teams, their wider businesses and each other on the subject of corporate sustainability: this will help GCs to create and protect value within their organisations, and also align corporate strategy with corporate sustainability which will ultimately benefit us all.
You’ve made the GC Powerlist! Incredible and so well-deserved. We salute you and all those who helped you get to this place, because regardless of how amazing you are individually, we know that no one succeeds alone. It takes partnership, collaboration, mentoring and a strong support network.
Celebrate for sure, but please, don’t rest on your laurels. Always remember the definition of power:
pow ● er; /’pou(ₔ)r/
“the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events.”
That’s an incredible responsibility and we urge you to not take it lightly. As a member of the GC Powerlist, you have in your hands the ability to facilitate, not stifle, the benevolent disruption of the legal industry. How? You and your company can choose innovation rather than stagnation; diversity rather than uniformity; globalisation rather than isolationism. You can embrace new models, the intelligent use of AI and technology, operational efficiencies and the abolishment of the eight most dreaded words in our industry: “Because that’s how we’ve always done it before.”
We formed ElevateNext in 2018 with all of these principles in mind. ElevateNext (www.elevatenextlaw.com) is a woman-owned, new model law firm that sits alongside the award-winning global law company, Elevate Services (www.elevateservices.com). We took everything we learned from our decade-long experience running Valorem Law Group (nationally known since 2008 for starting the conversation on using Alternative Fee Arrangements) and joined forces with Elevate to give customers a one-stop solution for any law department or law firm need. Elevate provides the technology, consulting, managed services, staffing, and legal operations, while ElevateNext handles all aspects of the practice of law. The right people doing the right thing at the right price – and always at a fraction of the traditional law firm price.
Are you worthy of this award? You better believe you are. But the better question is: what will you do with it? How will you live up to the power of the Powerlist? What will you do to further the profession and those in it? We have faith in you, and we are inspired by you. We can’t wait to see how you harness your power, and we hope that ElevateNext Law and Elevate Services will be right there with you, pumping our fists in the air as you flourish and thrive and achieve.
The Legal 500 was thrilled to join a selection of top Jones Day partners and a hand-picked group of 15 the most prominent GCs in Hong Kong for a freewheeling and no-holds-barred discussion on geopolitical risk management at a time of global transition. Steve Brogan, managing partner of Jones Day from 2002-2022 flew over to lend his considerable expertise to the discussion, as did Partner-in-Charge Hong Kong Joelle Lau. Joining them to give expert briefings on the topics of the day were partners Peter Wang, Dr Qiang Xue, James Fidler, Samuel Ngo and Charles Chau. The conversation moved from sanctions and counter sanctions, to the increasing pre-eminence of the Asian economy, to the philosophy of the rule of law in times of crisis.