General counsel and secretary | Silver Bay Realty Trust Corp
Having reached GC-level just two years after moving in-house, Daniel Buechler has, in the words of one source ‘seamlessly made the transition’. He initially joined Silver Bay’s external investment manager,...
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Senior counsel | Airbnb
High-profile public law specialist Katie Biber is well known for her involvement in US Government and politics. She was general counsel for Romney’s 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns, and in...
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Assistant general counsel | Six Flags
Danielle Bernthal has been working on world-leading amusement park corporation Six Flags’ international brand expansion. ‘It is a very exciting time for the company and being integrally involved every step...
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Chief legal officer | Summit Materials
‘Anne is single-handedly building Summit’s legal department from scratch,’ says one private practice source, adding: ‘We consider her to be a rising star in the legal profession’. Summit Materials is...
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Managing director, general counsel and chief compliance officer | GSO Capital Partners
Handling legal and compliance functions for one of the largest debt investment funds in the US market, Marissa Beeney has been active in new business initiatives for GSO Capital’s fund...
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General counsel and chief compliance officer | Circle Internet Financial
A Digital Asset Transfer Agency (DATA) board member and the first general counsel of BitCoin’s creator Circle Internet Financial, John Beccia is a key figure in the world’s burgeoning digital...
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Assistant general counsel, senior counsel specialist – litigation | Roche Group
Overseeing litigation teams across multiple jurisdictions, Mary-Alice Barrett has drawn particular notice through her handling of one of the US’s largest mass-tort cases. Comprising nearly 8,000 individual cases and several...
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Vice president and chief counsel, labor and employment | Kellogg’s
Having worked with plaintiffs and as an administrative law judge, Norma Barnes-Euresti’s decision to join Kellogg’s as head of its labor and employment function was not the most obvious career...
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Chief legal officer and general counsel | GitHub Inc.
GitHub Inc. is the world’s largest repository of open source software and ‘the de facto platform for collaborating on open source software development and code’. It has attracted a large...
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Associate general counsel | The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
‘An amazing hard worker’ who ‘keeps an eye on the big picture’, Ruth Atherton is valued not only for her highly technical skill-set but for her energy and commitment to...
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