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David Dawson serves as Winstead’s Chairman and CEO. In his role, David works closely with Winstead’s board of directors and leadership teams to develop and implement strategies for delivering the highest quality service to clients. Based in Austin, Texas, David’s practice focuses on the development and financing of public private projects involving governmental entities at the local, state, and federal level. He has represented developers, governmental entities, underwriters, and investors in airport, toll road, convention center hotel, military housing, and built-to-suit GSA lease transactions. A graduate of the UT McCombs Business Honors Program, David began his professional career in investment banking with CS First Boston before attending UT Law School. He joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in 1994, practicing corporate and public finance law before moving to Winstead in 2003. David is a former executive committee member of KIPP Austin Public Schools, Inc., which is part of a national network of high performing charter schools serving underprivileged youth. Winstead PC is a national business law firm with more than 350 attorneys. The firm provides a full range of business legal services to some of the most recognized and respected companies across the country and throughout the world. Winstead has offices in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio and The Woodlands, Texas, and Charlotte, North Carolina. For more information, visit: winstead.com.

Graciela Gomez Cowger is a Chief Executive Officer at Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt and Shareholder at Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt and is based in Vancouver, Washington. She has worked as Managing Partner at Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP; President, Director, and Shareholder at Marger Johnson; and Development Engineer at HP. Graciela studied at University of Washington between 1994 and 1997 and San Diego State University - SDSU between 1984 and 1989.