FMC Technologies Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary Jeffrey Carr recently received the Distinguished Legal Service Award from LexisNexis and Corporate Legal Times in recognition of his innovative risk-reward fee structure, known as FMC-ACES™ (Alliance Counsel Engagement System). With ACES, FMC Technologies seeks to align its interest in rapid, successful, and cost-effective resolution of legal disputes with a fair compensation model for its outside law firm and legal service suppliers. ACES requires FMC Technologies’ preferred law firms and service suppliers to share a pre-defined level of risk when engaged in FMC Technologies legal matters, after agreeing upon the success criteria for early case resolution. FMC Technologies’ strategic partners then receive significant financial incentives and performance rewards in return for the successful outcomes produced by their work.

Prior to this appointment, Mr. Carr was the associate general counsel for FMC Corporation and was responsible for the legal affairs of FMC’s $1.5 billion Energy and Airport Systems business groups. He joined FMC Corporation as international counsel. FMC Technologies provides advanced building control systems that reduce building operating expenses, increase productivity and provide a safe, comfortable working environment.

Prior to joining FMC, Mr. Carr practiced international trade law in Washington, DC with Willkie Farr & Gallagher and Wald Harkrader & Ross and was a judicial law clerk to the Hon. Murrary M. Schwartz (USDC-Del). He also founded and managed International Advisory Services Group, Ltd., an international trade policy, investment banking, and commercial consulting firm with offices in Washington, Prague, and Manila. Mr. Carr has extensive experience as a corporate attorney involved in commercial counseling, litigation and arbitration matters, negotiations involving international joint ventures, acquisitions, divestitures, privatizations, international trade law, customs, and export control.

Mr. Carr is a received a BA with honors from the University of Virginia. He received a law degree with honors from the Georgetown University Law Center where he was an articles editor for Georgetown Law Journal. In addition, while at Georgetown, he completed more than 30 hours of post-graduate study in the areas of international economics and foreign policy.