Todd Walker

• Owner/Operator of Dues Camping Center, a family owned business that has provided recreational vehicle services to the South Texas market for over 60 years and is the largest RV parts supplier in Galveston County.

Responsible for law firm HR, marketing, financial, contractual, IT, insurance, employee benefits, real estate issues, document management, and business operations matters. Negotiated contracts, reviewed business processes, dealt with facilities and business issues. Performed work on web site, marketing initiatives, and client relations matters.
• Negotiated and implemented new equipment, telephone, and software agreements to significantly reduce outages and permit more efficient tracking and pass through of costs.
• Revised Employee Handbook, onboarding procedures.
• Initiated contract management system and scanning project to digitize 10,000 depositions and make them OCR searchable.
• Headed project to update and revamp firm web site, implement search engine optimization, leading to significant increase in site traffic.

Managed legal/risk management, regulatory, human resources, payroll, and benefits departments for publicly traded workers compensation insurance company.
• Implemented first securities law compliance system for newly public insurance holding company. Prepared proxy statements and conducted solicitations. Responsible for annual report/10-Ks, 10-Qs, 8-Ks, Section 16, and other 1934 Exchange Act, 1933 Securities Act, and NASDAQ compliance matters.
• Successfully implemented new Dodd-Frank proxy and governance requirements.
• Planned and conducted annual shareholder meetings.
• Prepared agendas and directors’ packages for regular and special meetings, improved security and communication by putting internet-based board portal in place and eliminating written board books.
• Served on and as counsel to Investment Committee.
• Negotiated compliance issues arising from market practice and solvency examinations with regulators.
• Negotiated and drafted wide variety of IT, Agency, Credit and Treasury, Employment, Construction, Executive Compensation, Confidentiality, and other corporate agreements.
• Negotiated Non-Disclosure Agreements and conducted due diligence for potential acquisitions, drafted diligence templates for Underwriter and Agency acquisitions.
• Monitored compliance with committee charters and corporate governance guidelines, drafted revisions when appropriate.
• Chaired and coordinated Disclosure Committee responsible for approving public disclosure materials.
• Initiated and implemented new system of annual manager review through HR department.
• Conducted and coordinated numerous investigations of HR-related issues and incidents.
• Led team that created and implemented first company-wide paperless contract and document management system.

Primarily represented clients in real estate transactions, commercial finance, regulatory compliance, business acquisitions, and general commercial matters.
• Advised large Texas grocery chain in establishing money laundering compliance program.
• Became a certified SBA 504 loan closing attorney, reviewing and approving loan agreements, leases, and construction contracts.

Responsible for securities compliance, finance and treasury, mergers and acquisitions, governance, and commercial transactions for publicly traded petroleum refiner and marketer and its publicly traded pipeline subsidiary Nustar Energy, L.P. (NYSE:NS).
• Corporate secretary for NYSE-listed parent and NYSE-listed subsidiary master limited partnership, responsible for SEC and NYSE compliance, equity-based compensation administration, governance, financial, and corporate matters for both entities and over 100 subsidiaries.
• Lead internal counsel in $600 million conveyance of pipeline and terminal property and subsequent IPO of a sponsored publicly traded master limited partnership. Thereafter responsible for governance, general partner and limited partnership maintenance and distributions, pipeline and terminal acquisitions and construction, and documentation and scheduling of committee activities, including conflicts committee.
• Negotiated off-balance-sheet lease facility for construction and acquisition of retail outlets that eventually contained several hundred stores. Negotiated a similar facility for product and crude oil inventories.
• Successfully completed numerous public offerings of debt, equity, and preferred equity securities, through shelf and 144A offerings, along with other securitizations and bank financings.
• Led team that successfully chartered single purpose national bank for 800,000 credit card accounts, creating up to $.5 million/month in profits.
• Negotiated $100 million receivables securitization facility covering wholesale accounts and credit card receivables
• Implemented digital legal matter management system.

• Performed general banking, securities, and corporate work.