Gary Touchstone

As divisional general counsel, I partner with business leaders to provide practical legal and business counsel to achieve extraordinary business results. I excel at helping growth businesses increase revenue with reduced risk utilizing practical and actionable advice, drafting and negotiating contracts to close sooner and being an integral part of the executive team.Experience as General Counsel, Divisional Counsel, & Corporate Secretary. Private equity and public companies, IPO, strong international experience, strategy, contracts, licensing, strategic partnerships, compliance, governance, litigation management, data privacy and commercialization, mergers and acquisitions. In my current in-house role, I've stepped up in company size and represent American Airlines, the world's largest airline, for a variety of strategic and commercial matters on a global basis. I serve on the CCO executive team and act as division counsel for global sales and distribution. Additional responsibilities include standing teams on data privacy and revenue generation, and acting as primary counsel for marketing, digital and physical customer experience, digital sales channels and premium services. Assist in legal department leadership and administration. I've also planned and executed strategic and commercial aspects for the largest division of a $3.0 billion publicly traded global information technology company with 10,000 employees and operations in 62 countries, specializing in travel technology, software platforms and tools, and travel sales and distribution (corporate, consumer and supplier) . Specialties: Strategic planning, practical legal advice, executive counseling, domestic and international commercial transactions, data privacy and big data commercialization, software as a service (SaaS), technology licensing, compliance, mergers and acquisitions, contact drafting and negotiation, procurement and litigation management.Multiple year finalist in Dallas Business Journal Best In-house Counsel awards.Let's connect: Gary Touchstone [email protected] 817-219-0370