Victoria R. Husband

Victoria (“Vicky”) Husband serves as Consulting Counsel in the firm’s General Counsel and Corporate practice groups, leveraging her extensive experience in corporate law, compliance, risk management, commercial transactions, and dispute resolution. Her career, spanning the research, technology, and real estate sectors, demonstrates a proven ability to guide businesses through complex regulatory landscapes while enhancing operational efficiency and mitigating legal risks.

Drawing upon her experience as a former Deputy General Counsel for a U.S. publicly traded multinational company and EVP, Head of Legal and Chief Compliance Officer for a private company, Vicky brings a wealth of practical knowledge to her practice. In these pivotal roles, she led legal and compliance teams, expertly navigating a wide array of intricate legal and business challenges. Her expertise encompasses managing contract negotiations, data protection, employment law, global business operations, and effectively resolving business disputes, including those involving vendors and consumers. Notably, Vicky has a strong history of developing and implementing comprehensive compliance management programs and robust risk management frameworks tailored to organizations of diverse sizes, industries, and risk exposures. She also has a demonstrated track record of providing strategic legal advice on business transactions and corporate governance.

Vicky’s talent for translating intricate legal matters into actionable business strategies makes her an invaluable asset to the firm and its clients. Her deep experience ensures clients receive comprehensive legal support that not only safeguards their businesses but also fosters sustainable growth. Whether advising on business transactions, navigating regulatory complexities, or overseeing risk management initiatives, Vicky delivers the strategic guidance essential for businesses to succeed in today’s dynamic legal and commercial environment.

Representative Experience

Vicky’s practice focuses on complex corporate and commercial transactions, outside general counsel services, and compliance and risk management.

 Corporate and Commercial Transactions

• Structured, negotiated, and drafted a large volume of commercial agreements, including master services agreements, SAAS agreements, data protection agreements, purchase and sale agreements, and leases; developed contract templates and implemented contract management best practices for a real estate investment, development, and management platform.
• Developed and implemented contract management best practices and revised contract templates, streamlining contracting process and improving operational efficiency in sales cycle for a global technology and services company, negotiated and managed a high volume of complex commercial agreements, including master services agreements and data protection agreements.
• Negotiated and managed hundreds of commercial contracts, including master service agreements, licensing arrangements (data, technology, and other IP), copyright transfer agreements and COI disclosures for manuscript publication in medical journals, and compliance frameworks for real-world evidence development for a pharmaceutical research company.

  Outside General Counsel

• Provide strategic and tactical guidance on new businesses, products, and services to leverage intellectual property assets, assess regulatory risk, structure business and commercial transactions, and implement protective measures for intellectual property, technology, and brand assets for a professional services company.
• Structured and managed all legal and compliance work related to the formation and ongoing administration of various licensed companies, including real estate brokerages, a mortgage brokerage, a title company, an insurance producer, and a captive insurance company, ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Developed a privacy policy and process to ensure compliance with state data privacy laws for a real estate company with operations in ~25 states; updated and/or created data privacy, record retention, information classification, and information security policies and related legal documentation and agreements and successfully managed data privacy incident issues.
• Led subject matter-specific and cross-functional legal and compliance risk assessments through expert coordination, analyze findings for executive-level presentations, guide executive decisions, and implement change management strategies.
• Supervised a real estate management company’s litigation team in managing all legal disputes, including consumer, vendor, and other third-party claims, and government complaints, focusing on effective dispute resolution and settlement negotiation to minimize legal exposure and costs.

Compliance and Risk Management

• Developed and led various comprehensive compliance programs for a real estate investment, development, and management platform encompassing regulatory tracking, policy development, live and virtual training for 1,000+ employees, and implementation of critical compliance software tools, while partnering with business units to ensure adherence to all applicable federal, state, and local laws, including FHA, UDAP, TCPA, FDCPA, FCRA, FCPA, AML, and landlord-tenant laws.
• Developed, implemented, and managed the corporate compliance program for a global technology and services company, including developing and implementing compliance policies and training programs, integrating processes to manage compliance risks (e.g., anti-bribery/FCPA, trade sanctions, insider trading, and antitrust), localizing the program and extending it across geographies and to newly acquired entities, monitoring effectiveness, and overseeing reviews and investigations.
• Drove project compliance and risk mitigation by partnering with sales, business development, finance, and scientific teams of a pharmaceutical research company to ensure adherence to contract terms, company policies, and regulatory requirements (HIPAA, Anti-Kickback Statute, Sunshine Act, and corporate integrity agreement).
• Managed a multi-million-dollar insurance program for a real estate company, including coverage placement, claims oversight, annual audits, and loss prevention strategies.