Australia and New Zealand 2016
Group general counsel and company secretary | Asciano Limited
Lyndall Stoyles
Group general counsel and company secretary | Asciano Limited
Group general counsel and group executive - sustainability, external affairs and legal | Telstra
Group General Counsel & Group Executive, Sustainability, External Affairs and Legal | Telstra
Executive general manager, people, communications and governance | Caltex Australia
Executive general manager, legal and corporate affairs | Caltex
Firmly established within the market as Australia’s largest fuel network, Caltex supplies one third of Australia’s transport fuel and has gained a reputation for providing a safe and reliable supply...
As general counsel to leading infrastructure business Asciano, Lyndall Stoyles has been recognised for the positive and effective way she has partnered with the business. ‘I structured the team to ensure we have the right expertise and skills-mix to partner with the businesses we support’, she says. Stoyles has also developed a program to deepen understanding of the business. ‘This has two key benefits’, she explains. ‘First, the better the lawyers understand the business, the better support they provide by proactively managing legal issues and risk; secondly, it provides great opportunities for our lawyers to develop professionally, particularly in their management skills’. ‘Getting traction with certain functions’ and getting them to understand the legal team’s value-add, has not always been easy, Stoyles concedes. ‘We’re there to complement and support them, not compete with them’.
