Leslie Daniel

Experience

1. Managing Counsel - Corporate & Commercial Contracts

   Motiva Enterprises LLC

   Oct 2023 — Present

   Manage team of lawyers supporting commercial and procurement businesses.• Draft, analyze, and ensure that agreements reflect commercial decisions, legal obligations, and appropriate risk mitigation. • Representative contract subject matter: terminals; pipelines; truck, rail and marine logistics; clean products, base oils, chemicals, crude and feedstocks purchases and sales; and vendor and supplier procurement contracts.• Communicate and negotiate with counsel for business partners, joint ventures, other commercial third parties, and regulatory and governmental agencies.• Identity legal risks, sensitivities, and potential problems and propose constructive, commercially realistic solutions.• Develop and conduct training for client base, covering antitrust, franchise and pricing, NDAs, attorney-client privilege, and joint venture board matters.• Lead counsel on the divestment of 25 clean products terminals plus a long-term commercial arrangement with the buyer.• Advise on all aspects of joint venture activities, including formation, amendments to governing documents, project development, acquisitions and divestitures, financing, and environmental issues; coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure proper contractual compliance, governance approvals, and board engagement.• Collaborate with other lawyers and internal support functions; engage and manage outside counsel as necessary.

Education

• Wake Forest University School of Law

  Doctor of Law (J.D.), Law

  2010 — 2013

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Rhetoric & Writing

  2005 — 2009

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Public Relations

  2005 — 2009