David M. Kastin has been appointed by Clever Leaves – the multi-national operator and licensed producer of pharmaceutical-grade cannabinoids – General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. Kastin will handle the Company’s global legal activities and policies and support the CEO and Board of Directors as Clever Leaves prepares to become a public company. Recently Kastin has worked as General Counsel and […]
Katherine Pryor Burgeson has decided to retire as executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of Ingevity Corporation. Burgeson, taking part in the company’s early-retirement program.
Eastman Chemical Co., hard-hit by the coronavirus-induced stock rout, has hired Kellye Walker to be its chief legal officer; she starts April 13. She succeeds Clark Jordan, who has been serving as Eastman’s interim CLO
NOVA Chemicals Corp. has hired Byron Romain to be vice president and general counsel. He will be responsible for leading all operations of legal including in-house attorneys, external legal affairs, intellectual property rights, corporate and
How’s this for a long goodbye? Pittsburgh-based Koppers Holdings Inc, a supplier of treated wood products, announced that Steven Lacy, its chief administrative officer and general counsel, will retire after a 20-year career with
Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. has named Brian Berube senior VP and general counsel, effective July 15. He will be responsible for all legal functions and will report directly to Axalta’s CEO Robert Bryant. The company
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The struggling photography legacy company Eastman Kodak Co. has shuffled its in-house legal chiefs. Roger Byrd succeeds Sharon Underberg, who has quit to lead the legal department of a tech company. Byrd joined Kodak in 2015
The chemical and industrial multinational Celanese Corp. has hired A. Lynne Puckett (in the photo above) to be its next senior VP and general counsel. She begins on February 13. Formerly general counsel at Colfax Corp.,
The “agrochemical” company FMC Corp.is promoting Michael Reilly to executive vice president, general counsel and secretary, effective April 1. He will assume the role when Andrea Utecht, who occupies that post now, retires March. Reilly (
Scott Partridge, former vice president of global strategy for Monsanto, now part of Bayer, has been named the company’s general counsel for the United States. He succeeds former gneral counsel Jan Heinemann, and reports
