Cecily Gooch

Cecily Small Gooch specializes in partnering with legal counsel, corporate executives and boards of directors on diverse matters covering the breadth of FTI Consulting’s services. Ms. Gooch is a former senior legal executive with more than 20 years of government, large firm and in-house practice experience in both publicly traded and privately-held companies.

In addition to Ms. Gooch’s experience leading in-house legal teams, she has advised senior management and board members on diverse subjects including regulatory compliance and policy, government affairs and strategic planning, governance and investor issues, corporate transactions and environmental issues. Additionally, Ms. Gooch is proficient in litigation, retail consumer issues, marketing campaigns and sales channels, employment and compensation matters and data security and privacy.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Ms. Gooch served in various executive legal roles, including General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of TXU Energy. Ms. Gooch also served as Special Counsel of Restructuring for Energy Future Holdings, where she advised on restructuring strategy, case implementation and internal and external communications, and served as the debtor’s representative on the Fee Committee. She also served as Assistant General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer of Vistra Energy, the successor company to Energy Future Holdings.

While at Vistra Energy, Ms. Gooch implemented its transition from Chapter 11 emergence to public company operations, including listing the company on the New York Stock Exchange and implementing associated filing and reporting processes. Ms. Gooch developed, launched and managed the public company governance framework, advising on corporate governance best practices, executive compensation and associated disclosures; executing numerous board meetings, shareholder meetings and proxy processes; and responding to governance questions from executive management, directors and shareholders. She led the team that completed significant corporate transactions for Vistra Energy, including an $11 billion acquisition and merger integration that transformed the company’s Texas-based operations into a national footprint. Additionally, Ms. Gooch designed and executed a corporate ethics and compliance program, as well as advising on diverse legal and regulatory matters related to energy and consumer issues.

Ms. Gooch began her legal career as an enforcement litigation attorney for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and practiced in the Regulated Industries & Governmental Relations team of Hunton & Williams LLP.