Yvette Ostolaza

Since October 2013, Ms. Ostolaza has been a partner at Sidley Austin LLP, an international law firm, where she serves as a member of the firm’s Management and Executive Committees, the Global Co-Chair of its Litigation Group, and as the Managing Partner of the Dallas office. Ms. Ostolaza has spent her career developing a global practice representing public and private companies, board committees, and directors and officers in high-profile litigation, investigations, shareholder activism and regulatory, governance, and crisis management matters across a wide variety of industries. The daughter of Cuban immigrants, Ms. Ostolaza is a native Spanish speaker.

Ms. Ostolaza has received numerous awards, including being recognized as a “Thought Leader” at Corporate Counsel’s 2019 Women, Influence & Power in Law Awards. Ms. Ostolaza has been selected as one of 20 “Women of Excellence” nationally by Hispanic Business magazine. In 2018, Ms. Ostolaza received the Anti-Defamation League’s prestigious Schoenbrun Jurisprudence Award for her outstanding leadership and exemplary contributions to the community. Ms. Ostolaza also received the Texas Lawyer’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015, and was also named by that publication as one of ten “Winning Women” and as a “Woman to Watch.” Ms. Ostolaza has been recognized by the Texas Diversity Counsel as one of its “Most Powerful and Influential Women,” by Latino Leaders Magazine as one of its “Most Powerful Latino Lawyers.” She is also a past recipient of Girls, Inc.’s annual “Woman of Achievement” award, an award that recognizes leadership and accomplishments that inspire and increase opportunities for girls and women.