In-house Legal Appointments

Discover hires interim CLO ahead of $35bn mega-merger with Capital One

Kelly Welsh is replacing Hope Mehlman, who is leaving at the end of this month

Browne Jacobson hires former SRA enforcement head as first general counsel

Regulatory specialist Oliver Sweeney returns to firm where he started his legal career

Crypto asset manager CoinShares hires former Sidley Austin lawyer as group GC

Lisa Avellini replaces Graeme Dickson, who departed in September to join Algorand Foundation

Former Fried Frank, Orrick partner hired as CLO of Episcopal Church Pension Group

Julian Chung will replace Nancy Sanborn, who is retiring at the end of December

Kraft Heinz ends hunt for GC replacement with Sealed Air hire

Angel Shelton Willis replaces Rashida La Lande, who left for Estée Lauder Companies in August

Boldyn Networks adds former O2 GC as UK and Ireland legal head

Edward Smith resumes in-house career after three years in private practice at Shoosmiths and DLA Piper

Mastercard CLO departs for Coherent as payments giant names new GC

Rob Beard leaves card giant after just under 15 months, with Americas GC Tiffany Hall promoted to GC

US network TV business Tegna makes second CLO hire in less than a year

Alex Tolston comes in to replace Lauren Fisher, who exited the company in September

Houston-based Brock Group hires GC from Booster

Shenna Bradshaw brings 15-years of in-house experience across the industrials sector

CMA taps Linklaters, European Commission as part of trio of senior legal appointments

Emma Cochrane joins from Linklaters, while Lourenço Ventura returns from the EC

Bitcoin start-up Thesis hires former Cooley lawyer as GC

Katherine Snow joins from crypto data platform Messari, where she was CLO

Huel and WeTransfer-backer Highland Europe hires GC from Osborne Clarke

Josephine Healy replaces Rini Banerjee, who left the VC fund back in April

US rail operator Amtrak promotes deputy GC to replace retiring legal chief

Byl Herrmann succeeds Eleanor Acheson, who has been in the role since 2007

IMF appoints only second woman legal head in 80 years as deputy promoted to GC

Yan Liu will replace Rhoda Weeks-Brown, who is stepping down at the end of this month

eBay lines up TriNet legal head as next CLO

Samantha Wellington replaces Marie Oh Huber, who left the e-commerce giant in June

Royal Tulip luxury hotel brand-owner Louvre promotes ex-Moet Hennessy legal manager to GC

Grégoire Bouffard will replace Benjamin Dornic, who announced he is leaving the hotel group

US music publisher the Royalty Network taps Quinn Emanuel for first GC

Daniel Abowd returns to company after three-year hiatus, including spell at the US litigation heavyweight

Tinder-owner Match Group hires former Twitter GC as next CLO

Sean Edgett replaces Jared Sine, who left in February to join GoDaddy

Panodil-maker Perrigo hires Haleon interim GC as legal head

Charles Atkinson to replace Todd Kingma, who retires from Perrigo for a second time

US real estate group Amherst hires Lendlease Americas’ GC as legal head

Peter Campbell takes over the GC role from Gabriel Steffens

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