ACC STL Partners with St. Louis Business Journal To Select 2023 Corporate Counsel Award Recipients

ST. LOUIS - May 31, 2023 - PRLog -- For the past 10 years, the Association of Corporate Counsel, St. Louis Chapter (ACC STL) has partnered with the St. Louis Business Journal to recognize the top in-house counsel in the region with the "Corporate Counsel Awards."

St. Louis Business Journal's 2023 Corporate Counsel Awards recognize the best and brightest legal minds in the corporate landscape. These awards will span all levels of the corporate legal department structure, from in-house generalists and specialists to chief legal officers and general counsel, who work in nonprofit organizations or in public or private companies of any size in any industry.

The award honorees for this year are experts in M&A, compliance, human resources, and a slew of other company segments as their roles have continued to evolve to include other aspects of their respective company's overall strategy. They were selected with the help of a group of ACC STL members along with the Business Journal's editorial team.

The 2023 Corporate Counsel Award Recipients include:

• General Counsel of the Year Honoree: David Schatz, ESCO Technologies, Inc.*
• Rising Star Honoree: Alexandra Faver, CBD Kratom*
• Individual Honorees:
• Claudine Chastain, World Wide Technology, LLC
• Beverly Garner, Bunge*
• Tamar Hodges, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals*
• Thomas Larson, Anheuser-Busch InBev*
• Omar Malik, Edward Jones
• Jed Penney, Schnuck Markets, Inc.*
• Vikas Sunkari, SSM Health*

*Current ACC STL members

The Association of Corporate Counsel, St. Louis Chapter congratulates each 2023 Corporate Counsel award recipient for being leaders in the corporate counsel field and exemplifying excellence in their careers. The honorees will be recognized at an event June 15.

To read about the 2023 Corporate Counsel Award recipients, please click on the link to read the profiles of each award recipient, https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news/2023/05/02/announcing-2023-corporate-counsel-awards-honorees.html.

About the ACC STL:

The Association for Corporate Counsel of St. Louis (ACC STL), the pre-eminent professional development organization serving in-house counsel, was founded in 1987. The St. Louis chapter has more than 630 members who represent more than 100 organizations. During its 35-year-history, the ACC STL has been recognized as one of the leading chapters in the country by the national Association of Corporate Counsel, having received the Gold Chapter of Distinction in 2019-22. To learn more, please visit, https://www.acc.com/chapters/stlouis/.