On March 13, the Texas Legislature introduced HB 5007, which, if enacted, would establish the Texas Committee on Foreign Investment, the first U.S. state regime tasked with screening foreign investments on national security grounds. The proposed TCFI is not an entirely new idea; indeed, it closely mimics the responsibilities and purpose of its national regulatory counterpart, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
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Kathryn Hand’s first job out of college in 2013 was, in her words, “not-so-great — it felt mindless to me. I knew I needed a career that was going to be challenging,” she told The Texas Lawbook.
In the dozen years since, Hand obtained her law degree, spent five years getting trial experience and has spent the past two years scoring litigation achievements as senior counsel for litigation at Canada-based midstream energy giant Enbridge, including winning a case at the Ohio Supreme Court in which hundreds of millions of dollars were at stake. Citing her remarkable achievements in such a short time, the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Houston Chapter and The Texas Lawbook have named Hand as one of two finalists for the 2025 Houston Corporate Counsel Award for Rookie of the Year.
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