Carl Baranowski

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Carl brings decades of executive and legal leadership experience across higher education, healthcare, intellectual property, and advanced manufacturing to his practice. He most recently served as Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer for The University of Texas at Tyler, where he led strategic legal initiatives, including the formation of a new medical school, the co-development of the region’s largest health system, and the administrative merger of two UT institutions into one of the fastest-growing public doctoral universities in the nation.

Earlier in his career, Carl held legal leadership roles at several technology companies, including Texas Instruments, Gateway, Honeywell, and Jabil, where he managed legal matters across acquisitions, advanced manufacturing, intellectual property, compliance, research, litigation, and international operations. His private practice experience includes venture capital and private equity funding transactions at the Minneapolis office of Dorsey & Whitney. He also served as Director of Worldwide Best Practices at the Washington, D.C. office of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, after beginning his legal career in that firm’s Dallas office, where he advised technology companies on securities and corporate matters.

Carl has a deep background in preventive law and regulatory compliance and co-authored a leading legal reference book, Representing High-Tech Companies (Law Journal Press). He is a graduate of Stanford Law School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He holds three degrees from MIT, earned in four years, including a Master’s Degree in Strategic Studies, with a subsequent graduate fellowship at the Central Intelligence Agency.

Martindale-Hubbell has awarded Carl its highest peer- and judicial-reviewed rating, “AV Preeminent,” for 30 years. He has been Certified in Healthcare Compliance (CHC) and a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives. He was an editor of the Stanford Journal of International Law and was Phi Beta Kappa at MIT. Carl is a member of the Texas Bar.

Admissions:

  • Texas State Bar