Alex Tolston is senior vice president and chief legal officer at TEGNA. In this role, Tolston leads the company’s legal department and oversees all legal functions across a broad range of disciplines including corporate governance, content creation and distribution, regulatory, ethics and compliance, M&A, capital markets, and litigation and support TEGNA’s long-term direction and growth.
Previously, Tolston was executive vice president, chief legal officer and corporate secretary at Hemisphere Media Group, a U.S.-based publicly traded media company targeting the high growth Spanish-language streaming, broadcast television and cable networks business in the U.S. and Latin America.
At Hemisphere, Tolston executed the company’s growth strategy, including M&A, joint venture and sale transactions. This included the acquisition of three U.S. cable networks, two Latin American cable networks, a joint venture to create the #3 national broadcast network in Colombia, and a joint venture to create the leading Hispanic premium subscription service in the U.S, and subsequent buyout of its joint venture partner. He was instrumental in steering Hemisphere’s intellectual property strategy, including license agreements with leading U.S. and international entertainment companies and sports media rights agreements with the NBA, MLB, and professional soccer and basketball leagues in Latin America. Tolston was an integral part of a complex, three-part public sale process completed in 2022.
Before joining Hemisphere, Tolston practiced law in the corporate department at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, and was counsel to Hemisphere in its initial public offering. He began his career at Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc.
Mr. Tolston holds a B.A., magna cum laude, from Tulane University and a J.D., magna cum laude, from New York Law School. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Law School Alumni Association and sits on the Newcomb-Tulane College Dean’s Advisory Council at Tulane University.