Changing of the Guard: Changes at the Federal and State Level
with Immediate Impact for General Counsel
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Panelists
Stephanie L. Chandler
Partner, San Antonio
Corporate & Securities
Stephanie L. Chandler is a partner in the corporate section where her practice includes mergers and acquisitions, securities transactions, direct private investment, technology licensing and commercialization, and vendor and customer contracting. Industries she serves include technology, energy, health care and life sciences, and services industries. Stephanie also serves as the firmwide head of Jackson Walker’s Technology section. Her clients range from startup companies commercializing innovations to private investors and private equity firms to large privately held and publicly traded companies. Stephanie’s track record of working with clients from the earliest stages of their development through significant liquidity events, managing the legal issues related to each growth stage, allows her to bring a uniquely broad-based perspective to the matters she handles.
Rick Garza
Partner, San Antonio
Labor & Employment
Richard G. “Rick” Garza’s practice since 1987 has focused on representing employers in all aspects of employment-related matters, including formulating and drafting of employment contracts and policies and representing employers in administrative/investigation proceedings, state and federal trial and appellate courts. Rick’s depth of experience makes him a valuable resource to assist employers assess risk and formulate plans on how to deal with day-to-day employment issues. He also uses this base of experience to spearhead employment-related due diligence in corporate mergers and acquisitions.
Jesse Lotay
Partner, Houston
Energy
Jesse S. Lotay is the Chair of Jackson Walker’s firmwide Energy Practice. Jesse counsels a broad spectrum of energy and non-energy clients in transactional matters, with particular expertise in the renewable, midstream, infrastructure, trading, marketing, and hedging industries. His clients include oil and gas producers, metal manufacturing companies, service providers, gatherers, transporters, processors, interstate and intrastate pipelines, marketers, storage and terminalling operators, chemical manufacturers, local distribution companies (LDCs), municipal electric utilities, industrial gas and power suppliers and end users, power generation companies, universities, borrowers, and lending institutions. He strongly believes in working with each client as a strategic partner to provide proactive legal solutions, accomplish business objectives, address specific challenges, and maximize results.
Denise Rose
Partner, Austin
Government Relations & Public Policy
When Denise Rose came to Jackson Walker, her primary experience was in the healthcare arena; however, in the time she has been at the Firm, she has expanded her practice across the business spectrum. Denise continues to work successfully for a broad array of clients on their legislative and regulatory issues, whether those issues are environmental, healthcare, local government, licensing, or procurement focused. She is adept at navigating the nuanced and complicated Texas budget process and has successfully helped clients achieve their goals. Denise has been working in and around the Texas Capitol for two decades, and her strength is a deep knowledge of the legislative process and the people involved. She has cultivated relationships throughout the Texas Capitol and in state agencies. Denise provides effective strategic counsel to clients on a wide variety of issues, including but not limited to Medicaid and hospital finance, special utility districts, occupational licensing, health care quality, and agency rulemaking processes and requests for proposals. Denise is adept in the legislative drafting process. She represents non-profit organizations, nationally ranked hospitals, and Fortune 500 companies at the Capitol.
Patrick Tobin
Partner, San Antonio
Corporate & Securities
Patrick B. Tobin is a business lawyer who is a trusted legal adviser to companies and their owners. Patrick will help you start, grow, finance or raise equity for your business, acquire new or additional lines of business and, when conditions are right, sell your business. Patrick’s client base reflects the diversity of industries and company sizes which are in Texas or are investing in Texas businesses. He also represents large family owned businesses and their families in family office, succession planning, asset protection, diversification, acquisition, divestiture and financing transactions.
Harry Wolff III
Partner, San Antonio
Tax, Trusts & Estates
Harry Wolff III is a trusts and estates lawyer with an expansive practice focused on estate, tax and succession planning, wealth preservation and the formation, operation, and transition of closely-held businesses. He works with high net-worth individuals, families, and business owners and has extensive experience in addressing the unique challenges that arise in planning for families and managing multi-generational ownership. Harry routinely works with clients and their advisors to develop practical and flexible succession and gifting plans designed to maximize flexibility and minimize federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes.
Travis Wussow
Partner, Austin
Government Relations & Public Policy
Travis Wussow is a regulatory and Government Affairs lawyer with extensive experience solving complex regulatory and public policy problems. As an advisor and advocate, Travis assists clients in navigating and shaping their regulatory landscape, helping them maintain compliance while advancing their broader strategic goals. While Travis primarily serves clients in the energy industry, his extensive public policy experience spans healthcare, technology, education, constitutional law, and international human rights. This diverse background allows him to bring a unique perspective to his practice. Having worked in private practice, as in-house counsel, and as a senior operational executive, Travis deeply understands the needs of and challenges faced by his clients.