Toasting Last Year’s Winners and This Year’s Judges
The Texas Lawbook hosted a soiree honoring last year’s award winners, this year’s judges and ACC-DFW leadership. This is the inaugural DFW Outstanding Corporate Counsel Awards Alumni reception.
Capital One’s Elizabeth Chostner Engineered ‘Historic’ Mortgage Portfolio Sale
When Capital One’s financial services division decided to exit the mortgage origination and servicing business in 2017, it had a pretty sticky problem: How do you shed a portfolio of 113,000 mortgages valued at $17 billion in an orderly and cost-conscious fashion? Apparently, you task your Assistant GC Elizabeth Chostner to deal with the details.
Brooks & Talbott – Two EnLink Lawyers, One Team, Lots of Growth
EnLink Midstream Partners CLO Alaina Brooks and Deputy GC Kendall Talbott have been a team for a half-dozen years. Together, they implemented a $13 billion simplification, brought several midstream projects online, eliminated dozens of nuisance lawsuits and sold a $3.12 billion interest in EnLink. Now they’re finalists for an ACC-DFW award.
Adeptus GC Tim Mueller: IPO, Bankruptcy, Private Equity in Three Years
Adeptus Health General Counsel Tim Mueller has seen good times and bad times. During a three-year period, Adeptus experienced wild expansion, did an IPO, had its market cap hit $1 billion, filed for bankruptcy and restructured with a new plan for steady growth. Through it all, Mueller's legal counsel has been both sound and poised. The Lawbook has the story.
Interstate Batteries GC Kelvin Sellers is ‘Outrageously Dependable’
Interstate Batteries’ Kelvin Sellers has crafted partnership agreements with 200 retail stores, penned sponsorship contracts with NASCAR’s Kyle Busch, engineered the 19 percent acquisition of Aqua Metals and helped the company’s expansion into South America and China. Now, he is a finalist for the 2018 Outstanding Corporate Counsel's GC of the Year Award.
Scott Young is Toyota’s Lawyer for Real Estate Law, Corporate Transactions and Pro Bono
As managing counsel for Toyota Motor North America, Scott Young is the automaker’s leading legal expert on commercial real estate development, lease negotiations and corporate transactions. He's also developed a well-earned reputation for pro bono and public service.
Chasity Henry Drives Big Deals and Diversity
Kimberly-Clark Assistant GC Chasity Henry has been involved in several large corporate M&A, but her most important success is one she started with little fanfare. As founder of the NEW Roundtable, Henry is helping women of color achieve new successes in the legal profession. She is a finalist for the 2018 Outstanding Corporate Counsel's Diversity of the Year Award.
NGP’s Christina Sanders: Finalist for DFW Corporate Counsel Rookie of the Year
Christina Sanders is just 33 and been an assistant GC at NGP Energy less than a year, but she's already had a big impact at the Dallas private equity firm, including a major role in a $1.65 billion acquisition and an IPO for a portfolio companies. Sanders success, according to ACC-DFW and The Texas Lawbook, make her a finalist for the 2018 Outstanding Corporate Counsel’s Rookie of the Year Award.
NTTA’s Dena Stroh – GC of the Year Finalist in DFW
Despite being just 45, Dena Stroh has become one of the most influential lawyers in North Texas. She is the GC of the North Texas Tollway Authority, past president of the Dallas Women Lawyers Association, a leading voices in the Texas legal profession for gender and ethnic diversity and a “damn good lawyer.” The DFW Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel and The Texas Lawbook are pleased to announce that Stroh is a finalist for the General Counsel of the Year Award for a Small Legal Department.
Pioneer Natural Resources’ Mark Berg is Outstanding Corporate Counsel Lifetime Achiever
Mark Berg is one of the most influential lawyers-turned-corporate executives in the entire oil and gas industry. His legal work and dealmaking acumen turned Irving's Pioneer Natural Resources into a $30 billion energy giant. The DFW Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel and The Texas Lawbook are pleased to present Berg with its Lifetime Achievement Award at the Outstanding Corporate Counsel Awards on Jan. 24.