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William Turcotte’s Big Year: Bankruptcy, Two Major Mergers, a Pandemic, Marriage and a Cowboy’s Common Sense - Growing up the son of a South Texas rancher and educator, William Turcotte learned about facing tough times, long days of manual labor and the importance of a great education. Turcotte needed those principles the past two years as the general counsel at Noble Corporation. In a matter of months, he led the offshore drilling contractor in and out of bankruptcy, eliminating $3.4 billion in bond debt. Only weeks after emerging from Chapter 11, Noble acquired Pacific Drilling. In November 2021, Turcotte and Noble were at it again, closing a $3.13 billion all-stock merger with Maersk Drilling.

“The joke was ‘You can always sleep when you’re dead,’” Turcotte told The Texas Lawbook. The Association of Corporate Counsel’s Houston Chapter and The Texas Lawbook have named Turcotte as one of two finalists for the 2022 Houston Corporate Counsel Award for General Counsel of the Year for a Small Legal Department. May 19, 2022Mark Curriden
2022 Houston Corporate Counsel Award for Lifetime Achievement: Archrock GC Stephanie Hildebrandt - For three decades, Stephanie Hildebrandt has been general counsel in some of the biggest and complicated civil lawsuits and M&A transactions in Texas. She's been the GC at Archrock, a Houston-based provider of natural gas contract compression services, where she led the company’s $1 billion take-private transaction of Archrock Partners. Hildebrandt spent more than a decade as general counsel at Enterprise Products, where she supervised three huge acquisitions for the company, including the $4.4 billion merger with Oiltanking Partners, the 2011 purchase of Duncan Energy for $2.4 billion and the 2009 acquisition of Teppco Partners for $3.3 billion.

This Thursday evening, the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Houston Chapter and The Texas Lawbook are honoring Hildebrandt with the 2022 Houston Corporate Counsel Award for Lifetime Achievement. May 18, 2022Mark Curriden

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