About

Terry Hammons is vice president, deputy general counsel, corporate, chief regional counsel and assistant secretary at Albemarle Corporation, a Charlotte, North Carolina based company that develops, manufactures, and markets engineered specialty chemicals worldwide. Hammons’ role sees him acting as chief regional legal counsel for Latin America while also overseeing Albemarle’s worldwide corporate legal activities and providing legal support to its corporate governance, SEC compliance, finance, treasury and tax functions, as well as the Lithium Resources team. His recent Latin America-based work includes overseeing Albemarle’s 2017 acquisition of 50% stake in its former joint venture, Chile-based magnesium potassium salts producer, Sales de Magnesio, and, in 2016, negotiating Albemarle lithium exploitation agreement with Chile’s economic development agency, Corfo. Before joining Albemarle in 2015, Hammons spent 12 years as in-house counsel at Air Products and Chemicals, where he held a number of positions up to assistant general counsel for corporate and commercial matters. Before that he worked as an associate at Hunton & Williams in Virginia (from 1999 to 2001) and at Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. (from 2001 to 2004). A former college football star, Hammons has been co-owner of a CrossFit affiliate in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania since 2014.