Legal - General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer

Steven S. List 630-***-**** ac1nso@r.postjobfree.com

General Counsel, Secretary & Chief Compliance Officer

Strategic Business Counsel Ethics & Compliance Complex Contract Drafting & Negotiation Risk Management

Extensive International Experience Culturally Sensitive Seasoned Expatriate Team Building & Leadership

Regulatory & Government Affairs Dispute Resolution & Litigation Outside Counsel Management

Experienced General Counsel and integral member of executive leadership teams, providing legal, compliance, and risk management advice and guidance on critical decisions and daily operations for foreign and domestic businesses. Build and lead high-performing legal teams that facilitate attainment of corporate goals. Well-versed in regulatory and compliance protocols that successfully manage and mitigate operating and transactional risk. Hands-on contributor in structuring, drafting, negotiating, and closing complex deals with government and commercial clients. Demonstrate keen business sense and exemplary analytical and practical problem solving skills. Work well with

C-suite leadership, which includes gaining adoption for implementation of new ideas.

Professional Experience

APR ENERGY, Jacksonville, FL 2011-2017

APR Energy provides fast-track, turnkey power generation solutions to customers and communities globally, with emphasis in Africa, Middle East, Latin America and Asia and is capitalized at $1B+ with 800 people supporting efforts in 15+ countries. LSE: APR (Listed 2011-2016).

General Counsel, Secretary & Chief Compliance Officer

Established and led in-house legal department, ethics, and compliance efforts for corporate governance matters, including UK-based company secretarial function for board as APR’s first general counsel. Negotiated, drafted, and approved customer and supplier contracts, led M&A transactions, created and maintained entities globally, managed outside counsel and internal staff, and participated as member of seven-person senior executive team. Responded to needs of dynamic and changing business environment.

Key Contributions:

Built robust legal practice, which included managing most significant deals and creating compliance program.

Successfully closed transactions of $1B+ and favorably settled numerous disputes.

Served as lead negotiator and lawyer to acquire GE’s $500M turbine rental business – complex transaction and partnership that enabled APR to become exclusive seller of certain GE equipment.

Developed policies and conducted compliance training for all employees, officers, and directors on US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), UK Bribery Act, trade compliance, and anti-money laundering (AML); designed and implemented compliance programs for ethics committee of board of directors, which prevented any reportable compliance issues during tenure as chief compliance officer.

Reduced outside counsel budget by almost 50% over prior years by bringing work in-house, consolidating outside counsel, and negotiating favorable fee discounts.

Created master contract repository (SharePoint) with 50+ agreements in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Arabic, which fostered self-help mentality; drafted new forms and improved existing contracts.

ACCENTURE, Sydney, AU & Chicago, IL 1998-2011

Fortune 100 global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company with $32B+ in revenues and 400,000+ employees in 200 cities in 65 countries. NYSE: ACN

Asia Pacific Director of Legal Services – Associate General Counsel Globally (2007-2011)

Provided legal counsel to $3.5B annual revenue-generating Asia Pacific business with 80,000 employees in India, Greater China, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Brunei, Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand. Member boards of directors of Australia, China, Japan, and South Korea entities and served on ASEAN geographic business council.

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ACCENTURE, continued

Oversaw legal transactions, including disputes and litigation, compliance and regulatory, and entity matters; managed $15M operating budget with external counsel. Recruited, hired, trained and grew culturally diverse legal team from 25 to 70 professionals; resolved employee relations issues and handled corrective action. Structured and negotiated complex outsourcing, consulting services, software development, license, nondisclosure, marketing alliance and reseller agreements valued at hundreds of millions of dollars.

Key Contributions:

Resolved numerous compliance issues; led and executed investigations, developed disciplinary strategies with human resources and counseled employees.

Developed country-specific compliance, corporate, and fiduciary policies, procedures and manuals for Australia, China, India, Japan, and Singapore.

Realized $5M cost savings by reducing the number of outside counsel and negotiating discounted rates with key providers, developing alternative fee arrangements, and transitioning appropriate work in-house.

Formalized hiring and training programs, including orientation and mentoring initiatives, which improved retention, reduced unforced attrition to 5%, and increased employee engagement by 10%.

Global Legal Lead – Health & Public Service (2002-2011)

Counseled CEO and COO of $4B global public health and government services business and participated as member of executive leadership team. Managed 45-person global legal team. Reviewed and approved all major contract variances, resolved disputes, addressed operating and employee relations issues, and maintained compliance with government procurement regulations.

Key Contributions:

Influenced business growth from $2B to $4B; collaborated to negotiate risk-adverse contracts while maintaining industry-leading “win” rate.

Instituted streamlined approval process for government contracts in US and emerging markets.

Government Compliance Officer and North America Legal Lead – Health & Public Service (2002-2007)

Created compliance practices to work with government clients. Led 12-person team that contributed to aggressive growth of group by negotiating risk-balanced government agreements; revenues doubled from $1B to $2B.

Key Contributions:

Developed, instituted, and led government compliance program. Established and deployed comprehensive, leading-edge training of US and Canadian federal practice employees on government contracting, including online, instructor-led, and annual certifications.

Drafted policies and procedures to ensure compliance with the FCPA, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Anti-Bribery Convention, and other anti-corruption laws and regulations which prevented any reportable compliance issues during tenure as Government Compliance Officer. Collaborated with human resources to investigate and discipline employees who violated policies.

Authored and recorded Accenture’s mandatory government compliance video for training employees around the world on contracting with governments in accordance with the highest ethical and legal standards (which helped Accenture to become one of the world’s most ethical companies).

Reversed two US federal government termination for cause orders within 60 days of issue, facilitating attainment of satisfactory past performance scores for services.

North America Legal Lead – Utilities (1998-2002)

Led 4-person team supporting all transactions and legal issues with utility companies in North America.

Key Contributions:

Structured, drafted, and negotiated multi-million dollar agreements with utility companies.

Resolved and settled $700M claim from large Midwestern electric utility on terms favorable to Accenture.

Reviewed all public presentations and corporate communications to maintain compliance with worldwide quiet period, ensuring timely IPO announcement by avoiding incidents.

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Education & Credentials

DEPAUL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW, Juris Doctor, Chicago, IL

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN – MADISON, Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Madison, WI

Bar Admissions: Supreme Court of Illinois; US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois; Authorized House Counsel, Florida Bar

Professional Affiliations: American Bar Association; Association of Corporate Counsel; Florida Bar Association

Presentations & Publications

Anticorruption Compliance Programs Benchmarking: Program Implementation Best Practices, American Conference Institute, Miami, Florida 2017

Holland & Knight General Counsel Roundtable – Working from the Inside Out, Jacksonville, Florida 2017

Trends in Anticorruption Enforcement and the Best Practices of International Companies that Work in Tough Neighborhoods, The Connex Group, Plano, Texas, 2015

Interactive Town Hall: Building a Culture of Compliance: How to Increase Employee Engagement and Train Your Employees and Third Parties, Anticorruption Bootcamp, Miami, Florida, 2014

What is Keeping the General Counsel Up at Night? Consero’s General Counsel Forum, Ponte Vedra, Florida, 2013

Legal’s Role in the Quality Assurance Process, The Accenture Way to Negotiate, Commercial Essentials, Accenture’s Code of Business Ethics, and Government Compliance and Anticorruption, for Accenture in the US and Asia Pacific, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

Women in the Workforce, International Women’s Day, Australia, 2008, 2009, 2010

Challenge of Gifts & Hospitality in South East Asia, Anticorruption South East Asia Summit, Singapore, 2008

Compliance Risks: How to Focus Your Energies on the Biggest Issues, Corporate Ethics & Compliance in Asia Conference, Hong Kong, 2008

Government as Client Compliance Manual, Accenture, December 2006

Co-Author, Legal Web of Wireless Transactions, Rutgers University Computer Technology & Law Journal, January 2003

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