John M.
Baumann, ESQ.
Speaker - Facilitator -
Consultant Attorney
Executive Officer - Secretary - Director
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Accomplished General Counsel,
Executive Officer, and business leader with a strong portfolio of successes
providing in-house legal services for over 22 years.
- Successfully accomplished critically
important projects including sale of the company to an international company at
a 63% premium to market and establishing and maintaining a proactive prevention
program which has resulted in no harassment lawsuits in the past 10 years, no
union certification in last 12 years, and a 75% reduction in workplace injuries
with estimated saving of over $10M.
- Broad range of legal knowledge and
experience including mergers, acquisitions, government tax incentives,
securities, financing, SOX, international, environmental, insurance, employment,
labor, trials, litigation, collections, ERISA and general corporate.
STEEL
TECHNOLOGIES INC.
Louisville, Kentucky
General Counsel and Secretary |
1996-2008 |
Promoted from Counsel in 1996 to
Counsel/Secretary/Human Resource Manager in 1997 to General Counsel &
Secretary in 2001 overseeing a three-person law department. Designated Executive
Officer in 2007. Responsible for closing five acquisitions resulting in growth
from 7 plants with $300M in sales to 25 plants with $1.3B in sales. Negotiated
$532M purchase agreement with Mitsui and successfully completed closing in 2007.
Major Contributions:
- Established, implemented and
maintained a Proactive Prevention™ program.
- Identified and negotiated over $2M in
government incentives and state tax savings.
- Successfully obtained recovery of
$500k in 12 year-old written-off collection suit.
- Completed successful Secondary
Offering and Private Placement raising $97M.
- Instituted program of union avoidance
resulting in no campaigns since 1999 (4 in previous 4 years).
- Successful campaign resulting in the
decertification of union at plant in northern Indiana.
- Instrumental in development of, and
long-time executive officer of, offshore captive insurance co-op which grew from
12 to over 200 member companies and saved the company over $2M in premiums.
- Through various joint ventures,
experience with international as well as certified minority companies.
- Strategy formulation and hands-on
participation in the successful resolution of all company lawsuits including
arguing before the Sixth and Seventh Circuit Federal Courts of Appeals.
TOSCO
CORPORATION
Assistant General Counsel, Linden, New Jersey |
1993-1996 |
Created law department for start-up company
following the $700M purchase of a New Jersey refinery from Exxon including
negotiation of successor agreement with Teamsters with significantly reduced
workforce.
EXXON
CORPORATION
Trial Attorney, Houston, Texas
Oil and Gas Attorney, New
Orleans, Louisiana
Refinery Attorney, Linden, New Jersey
|
1986-1993 |
RELATED EXPERIENCE
UNIVERSITY
OF LOUISVILLE COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
Louisville, KY |
2006-Present |
THORNTONS,
INC.
Louisville, KY
Advisory Board Member |
2002-Present |
KENTUCKY
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Frankfort, KY
Board Member |
2004-2008 |
EDUCATION / BAR
ADMISSIONS
Juris Doctorate,
Cornell Law School,
Ithaca, NY 1986 Research Assistant, Professor James
Henderson.
Bachelor of Business Administration, University of
Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA 1982
 Summa Cum Laude,
Management Honors.
Texas 1986, Louisiana 1990, New Jersey 1993,
Kentucky, 1994
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