Kevin Colby helps GOWell Petro seize business opportunities—and avoid compliance land mines—in its many markets, from Azerbaijan and Egypt to Indonesia and Mexico. Courtesy photo'The Show Must Go On': Solo-GC-of-Year Kevin Colby Pulls Off Perpetual Juggling Act
"Unless there’s something where they really need a specialist, I pretty much can do it. And they have enjoyed this ability. Not to mention that I can negotiate things in Spanish and Portuguese," said Colby, general counsel of GOWell International Inc.
November 22, 2024 at 07:19 AM
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Kevin Colby is a busy man. As the only in-house lawyer at global energy technology company GOWell International Inc. he has to be flexible. “Sometimes, I have meetings at 7 a.m. and other meetings at 9:30 p.m. It depends on what has to be done,” he said. "For what I'm doing, there's no way this would be a 9-to-5 job. For a GC, you've just got to do what you've got to do.”
Colby, winner of Corporate Counsel's 2024 Solo GC of the Year Award, has been a one-man legal department for more than a decade, since joining GOWell from Camara & Sibley, a boutique firm in Houston. But the company, which was founded in China before expanding to open research and development centers in Houston and Dubai, originally had a very different approach to doing legal work.
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