Charlotte Rasche has handled more than 30 M&A transactions for Prosperity Bank – first as a lawyer at Bracewell and now as the financial institution’s chief legal officer. None of those deals, however, were close to being as large or important as Prosperity’s $2.1 billion purchase of Plano-based LegacyTexas Bank a year ago. Working with Bracewell’s Will Anderson, Rasche completed one of the largest bank deals in Texas history in less than five months. Rasche and Anderson are the winners of the 2020 Houston Corporate Counsel Award for M&A Transaction of the Year.
Chevron’s Alyssa Schindler Knows Firsthand the Difference Pro Bono Lawyers Can Make
The 2020 Houston Corporate Counsel Award for Creative Partnership goes to Chevron senior counsel Aylssa Schindler and Lauren Brogdon of Norton Rose Fulbright. The duo normally handle multimillion-dollar transactions and lawsuits, but they came together to co-engineer a major pro bono effort involving more than 20 lawyers from the energy giant and the global law firm to help 10 low-income victims of Hurricane Harvey.
Christina Ibrahim – A Transformational Chief Legal Officer
Christina Ibrahim’s accomplishments at Weatherford International include multiple large M&A deals and guiding the oil services company through a highly successful bankruptcy and restructuring that eliminated $6 billion in debt. But her achievement was much different, much deeper and much more important. The Association of Corporate Counsel Houston and The Texas Lawbook award the 2020 Houston Corporate Counsel’s General Counsel of the Year Award for a Large Legal Department to Ibrahim.
TX Minority Counsel Program: ‘Living Through History is Not Easy’
Diversity and inclusion must be personal. Making history and even just experiencing it can be difficult. Words followed up by actions on mandatory diversity by corporate general counsel equals progress and success. These were the messages that came from the Texas Minority Counsel Program’s two-day annual meeting.
Food Law Expert Lauren Medoff Moves from AdvoCare to 7-Eleven
The Dallas in-house lawyer and ACC-DFW board member said it was her goal to join “the most talented team of attorneys in DFW.”
2020 DFW Outstanding Corporate Counsel Awards Nominations are Open
The Texas Lawbook and the Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel are now accepting nominations for the 2020 DFW Outstanding Corporate Counsel Awards. GCs and in-house counsel faced challenges like no other year and they did it with great success. Now, it is time to recognize and celebrate those achievements.
CenterPoint Energy Associate GC Judy Liu – An ‘Air Traffic Controller’ Managing a 150 Case Litigation Docket
Judy Liu was 6 when she and her mom arrived in the U.S. from Taiwan. She learned English in less than three months, mainly by watching Sesame Street, but she also discovered that kids in Texas were not always so welcoming. Even so, Liu survived and thrived and is the quintessential immigrant success story. Four decades later, Liu one of the top lawyers at CenterPoint Energy, managing about 150 active lawsuits. She is also the 2020 Houston Corporate Counsel Award for Senior Counsel of the Year for a Large Legal Department.
2020 Houston Corp. Counsel Award: How Mindy Harper Won the Mattress Wars
Mattress Firm senior counsel Mindy Harper had been on the job only a few months when the Houston bedding company became embroiled in a multi-year, bet-the-company dispute that was litigating in 14 states – all happening as Mattress Firm went through a $3 billion bankruptcy and restructuring. “Mindy was the quintessential ‘grace under fire’ since the date she started at the company,” Houston lawyer John Thomas said.
Mattress Firm’s Daria Russell: ‘Takes a Holistic Approach to Problem-solving and Never Cuts Corners’
Daria Russell is the granddaughter of sharecroppers. She worked hard, went to Harvard Law and worked at a global law firm. Now she is senior counsel at Mattress Firm where she has handled more than a dozen M&A deals and guided the retailer through bankruptcy restructuring. She is also the 2020 Houston Corporate Counsel’s Senior Counsel of the Year for a Small Legal Department. This is Daria Russell’s story.
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GC Kindel Nuno Leads Mattress Firm Through Crises and Minefields
Mattress Firm GC Kindel Nuno does not mince words about December 2017: “It was horrible – among the worst days of my professional career.” Nuno had led MF through two-dozen M&A deals to make it a national bedding retailer with 3,600 stores and $3 billion in revenues. But then, Mattress Firm’s parent company was accused of accounting fraud and the Houston retailer was staring at bankruptcy. Thankfully, MF had Nuno as its legal guide.
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