Todd Bloomquist serves as Beam Suntory’s SVP Chief Legal Officer, Corporate Affairs & Secretary. He is the company’s chief legal officer and leads global corporate affairs, including oversight of strategic transactions, litigation and other disputes, intellectual property, governance, risk management, governmental relations and the global Legal, Compliance and Public Affairs functions, leading a team of over 60 professionals based in nine countries. He also serves as Vice Chairman of the Global Risk Management Committee of Suntory Holdings in Tokyo, Japan.
Bloomquist joined the Beam Suntory Legal Department in 2011 to help consummate the Fortune Brands restructuring and the company’s emergence as a standalone NYSE-listed company. He served in positions of increasing responsibility before his promotion to General Counsel in 2018 and as leader of the Public Affairs function in 2023.
Prior to joining the company, he was a Partner at Winston & Strawn LLP, an international law firm with nearly 1,000 attorneys in 16 offices in the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. He represented corporate clients in a diverse range of matters including acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and other transactions, IPOs and other equity issuances, credit facilities, bond offerings, structured debt securities, and listed company governance.