Yvette Ostolaza is a member of Sidley Austin’s management and executive committees, the managing partner of the Dallas office, a global co-leader of the litigation practice and a member of the firm’s COVID-19 task force. She devotes a large part of her practice to advising boards on compliance issues and internal investigations. Since December, she’s also been an independent director on Lionsgate’s board.

With more than 2,500 publicly traded companies calling Texas home, COVID-19 and the related economic crisis are keeping board members extra busy with emergency meetings to address unforeseen finance and liquidity emergencies, supply-chain problems, insurance claims, activist investor headaches, and a range of challenges caused by shelter-in-place orders.