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General Counsel | Deal Closer | Legal Engine Behind Growth
Felice Gray-Kemp has spent nearly 30 years helping businesses grow with fewer missteps, smarter deals, and legal infrastructure that actually supports scale. As a longtime General Counsel and former Chief Legal Officer, she’s advised boards, closed billions in transactions, led global teams, and contributed to the significant successes of companies such as United Technologies, Amphenol, LEGO, and Cyient; in some cases, building the legal function from the ground up.
She’s not a high-level strategist who parachutes in with a memo. Felice rolls up her sleeves. She’s negotiated SaaS and supply chain deals, supported global carveouts, led workforce transitions, and helped protect reputations when companies outgrew their systems. Whether embedded with a founder-led startup or helping a PE-backed platform align its portfolio, Felice brings judgment, execution power, and a business-first mindset to every engagement.
She doesn’t just flag the risks, she shows you how to get the deal done anyway, with clean terms and no ugly surprises down the road. And if you’re wondering how she’s so good at spotting what others miss? She’s seen the ugly surprises. Experience is the best teacher, and Felice has graduated with honors.
Core Areas of Focus
Commercial Transactions & M&A Strategy
Legal Infrastructure for Scale
Cross-Border, Multi-Entity Operations
Board & Executive Team Advisory
Internal Investigations & Risk Spotting
Career Highlights
Chief Legal Officer, CaaStle – As CLO of a first-of-its-kind SaaS and logistics company, Felice led legal, HR, investor relations, and risk through years of rapid growth, and when things got hard. That kind of experience can’t be taught. It’s precisely why she now helps clients build smarter from the start—with sharper instincts, stronger guardrails, and fewer blind spots.
General Counsel, Cyient Ltd. (NSE: CYIENT) – Inaugural GC for a publicly traded global engineering and technology company with 15,000+ employees. Built the legal and compliance function from scratch, supporting complex commercial deals across aerospace, semiconductors, telecom, and healthcare.
General Counsel, LEGO (LSI) – Led legal strategy for LEGO’s largest business unit, supporting licensing, IP, marketing, employment, and commercial ops. Managed legal response to the Toys “R” Us bankruptcy, first attorney to bring a business partnership to the company through her network and reduced outside legal spend by 25% while expanding support areas—all while supporting three CEOs and a rapidly evolving team.
Deputy GC & Chief Compliance Officer, Amphenol Corporation (Fortune 500) – First in-house legal and compliance lead. Repositioned the legal function as a strategic partner and aligned operations across global teams such as aerospace, automotive, and medical device manufacturing.
Associate GC, Honeywell International – Supported a $2B+ revenue global consumer products business unit through divestiture and reorganization. Advised on employment, safety, regulatory, and product risk.
Associate GC, Chemtura (now Lanxess) – Played a central role during post-bankruptcy turnaround. Managed legal operations, ethics and compliance, and board-level support during a major corporate restructuring.
Assistant GC, United Technologies (now Raytheon Technologies) – Supported aerospace and defense business units in high-value joint ventures, procurement, trade compliance, governance, and global operations.
Bar Admissions
Connecticut
New York
Education
LL.M., Taxation – Boston University School of Law
J.D., University of Connecticut School of Law
B.A., English Literature – Yale University
Beyond the Bar
Once won a Tina Turner look-alike contest just by walking in and singing one line. (The prize? Front-row seats—and bragging rights.)
Game show alum: competed on The Chase as part of Team “Nerdy by Nature.” She’s fast on the buzzer and faster in a crisis.
Trustee of the Connecticut Science Center and active volunteer at her church’s food pantry.
Widow and proud mom of a teenage son who still thinks she’s cool—she knows that won’t last forever, but she’s making the most of it.
