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In her role as senior counsel at Phillips 66, Kristina McQuaid is asked to do more than M&A. Much more.
"At first, I did not want to be a lawyer. I really enjoyed math and wanted to be a stockbroker," she says.
Now she finds herself nominated as a 2024 finalist for Senior Counsel of the Year for a Large Legal Department by the Association of Corporate Counsel's Houston Chapter and The Texas Lawbook.
In her role as senior counsel at Phillips 66, Kristina McQuaid is asked to do more than M&A. Much more. The Lawbook had the chance to ask a few questions about her work and her expectations of outside counsel. We jumped on it.
When Jenarae Garland arrived as a new managing counsel at Phillips 66, she could be excused for not being fully prepared for the part she would come to play in the $3.8 billion take-private purchase of DCP Midstream LP. She was the junior member of a three-attorney team leading the deal, ranking behind Deputy General Counsel Rob Task and Managing Counsel Maine Goodfellow. Along with their outside counsel Bracewell, the deal has also resulted in their nomination as finalists for 2024 M&A Transaction of the Year by the Association of Corporate Counsel's Houston Chapter and The Texas Lawbook.
Gindi Vincent has a website where she writes about her worries. She worries aloud about her weight. She leans into her faith. She worries about being too busy for her kids: three teens — triplets. She worries about how she will busy herself when they depart for college four years out. She is a self-described "Type-A Planner Chick" as well as serving as General Counsel for Integrated Supply Chain and Procurement for Honeywell’s Energy and Sustainability Solutions.
Vincent, Honeywell and their outside counsel Arnold & Porter have been named a finalist for M&A Transaction of the Year by the Association of Corporate Counsel's Houston Chapter and The Texas Lawbook.
For Premium Subscribers Gindi Vincent has a long and complicated title at Honeywell: General Counsel for Integrated Supply Chain and Procurement for Energy and Sustainability Solutions. Her responsibilities are even
The new laterals at Willkie — Tom Tippetts, Brandon McCoy and Chase Proctor — will be joined/supported by a few other familiar names from Willkie's New York and Texas offices.
Both sides are confirming that Texas-based Locke Lord is in merger talks with the Georgia-founded firm. Texas Lawbook 50 research shows Locke Lord's revenues in Texas stayed flat in 2023, but profits per partner increased. An analyst says he sees growth in depth and breadth for both sides in the proposed merger. This isn't the first time Troutman has tried to break into Texas.
The co-founder of Haynes Boone will be inducted into the TBHF alongside such luminaries as former NBA great David Robinson, EnCap Investments' David B. Miller and Taylor Sheridan, creator of TV's "Yellowstone" franchise.
Jacqui Bogucki, a highly regarded transactional lawyer specializing in infrastructure deals, has left Simpson Thacher for Weil, Gotshal & Manges in Houston. She's the fifth partner to join Weil's Houston office in the last year.
If ranking at the top of The Texas Lawbook's deal lists pisses off a few lawyers at Big Law firms in Texas, Kevin Henderson can live with that. In a way, he planned on it. He closed 30 transactions last year in an M&A space most of them wouldn't bother with, creating a space of his own with an unusual firm structured in an unusual way for an unusual market.
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