The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will have a new general counsel when the new year comes around. It has appointed Michael Strauss to succeed Marie-Anne Birken, who is retiring at the end of the year.The bank, which dates from the fall of the Iron Curtain and whose mission was to rebuild Central and […]
Credit card company Discover has a new chief legal officer and general counsel: Wanji Walcott. She replaces Discover’s former general counsel Kelly McNamara Corley, who retired earlier this year after 36 years with the company. Walcott came from PayPal, where she was general counsel and has led the company’s legal department since 2017. While there, she […]
New York-based financial services company MSCI Inc. announced that Frederick Bogdan will retire from his position as MSCI’s general counsel on January 2, 2020. Robert Gutowski (in the photo above), currently the deputy general counsel, compliance chief and head of internal audit, will succeed him Mr. Bogdan will remain with the company for a transition […]
Lincoln, Massachusetts-based Athena Capital Advisors, a privately owned investment advisor with $5.5 billion in assets under management, has promoted Dana O’Brien (in the photo above) to general counsel. She joined Athena in 2014 and was its deputy GC and chief compliance officer–a role she’s keeping in her new, elevated job. Leonard Lewin, Athena’s general counsel for […]
The cryptocurrency trader platform Coinbase has poached a lawyer from the realm of standard currency and financial services. Brian Brooks, formerly the general counsel of the mortgage lender Fannie Mae, is to lead Coinbase’s legal department. In his blog, Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong writes that the hiring of Brooks is part of the […]
Janus Henderson Group plc have promoted Michelle Rosenberg p to the position of general counsel and secretary of Janus Henderson Investors. Rosenberg will oversee both the legal and internal audit functions and will report to Co-CEO’s Richard Weil and Andrew Formica. She is based in Denver and will be a member of the firm’s executive committee. Before […]
Do you think you have it tough when it comes to reporting requirements? Be grateful that you aren’t based in Kenya. The government there has proposed a new law requiring certain professionals, like lawyers, trustees, and accountants to report “suspicious” deals worth over sh1 million, or about $10,000, to the Financing Reporting Centre. Specifically, the […]
The “fintech” sector continues to be hot, and one sure sign is that Nomis Solutions has hired Douglas Luftman to be its general counsel. Luftman has made the circuit of many of Silicon Valley’s innovators, having worked in-house at companies such as NetApp, Palm, and Intel Corp. Before then, he toiled in private practice at […]
It’s not exactly an asset rummage sale. But the vast majority of Canadian executives—84 percent—say that they expect to divest in the next 12 months. That’s according to the latest EY Global Corporate Divestment Study. The survey authors say that last year a sizeable amount of respondents, some 73 percent, indicated plans to conduct more […]
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