Adrienne Randle Bond has 25 years of legal experience.  She specializes in corporate, partnership and securities law, oil and gas transactions and mergers and acquisitions. Ms. Bond is a magna cum laude graduate of Rice University and graduated Columbia University Law School (JD, 1980) as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. She is a frequent author and lecturer on corporate and securities law issues, has served as Adjunct Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Houston Law Center and Co-Chair of the Planning Committee for the 29th Annual Conference on Securities Regulation and Business Law. Ms. Bond is a past President of the Women's Finance Exchange and has been a member of the State Bar of Texas Corporation Law, Continuing Education and Venture Capital Committees. She speaks Spanish, French, and Portuguese. She is married and has one daughter.  In her leisure time, she enjoys wildlife photography and her dogs.

Kathryn Smyser’s professional experience includes transactional and litigation experience with two major Houston law firms, as well as a decade as a member of the faculty at the University of Houston Law Center, where she taught courses in the area of corporate and securities law, federal courts and federal procedure. Her current practice includes a wide range of transactional matters,  including complex corporate, partnership and securities law issues, initial business planning, venture capital and start up investments, and mergers and acquisitions. In addition, she continues to handle civil appellate matters. Ms. Smyser graduated from Rice University, Harvard University and the University of Texas Law School, where she was a member of the Texas Law Review and the Order of the Coif. She served as law clerk to former Chief Judge Carolyn King of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

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