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United States 2019

Anat Hakim

Executive vice president, general counsel and secretary | WellCare Health Plans

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Anat Hakim

Executive vice president, general counsel and secretary | WellCare Health Plans

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When Abbott’s pharmaceutical research business separated to become Abbvie in 2013, Anat Hakim moved from heading IP litigation, to leading one combined team covering all disputes. ‘That was a significant...

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Formerly an equity partner in the intellectual property litigation department at Foley & Lardner and an associate with Latham & Watkins, Anat Hakim’s in-house legal career began with Abbott Laboratories in 2010, and she operated in the role of divisional vice president and associate general counsel for litigation between 2012 and 2016. Hakim was an extremely high achiever at Abbott, accomplishing a number of very impressive achievements: ‘I had an exceptional winning litigation record at Abbott Laboratories, including prevailing in appeal overturning largest patent verdict in US history, and defeating a $1bn False Claims Act at trial’. Joining WellCare as general counsel in September 2016, Hakim hit the ground running. ‘I closed five acquisitions at WellCare between 2016 and 2018 including the acquisition of Meridian Health, a $2.5bn acquisition and the largest in WellCare’s history’, she explains. She has also had a major effect on the internal workings of the WellCare team during this time. ‘I have reorganised and transformed the legal department by upgrading talent, making technology enhancements, [and] restructuring the department to better align with our business partners, introducing industry standard KPIs along with training and education, and focusing on developing a high performance culture’ she explains. ‘As part of the reorganisation, I created a regional counsel model which placed attorneys in WellCare’s various markets for the first time. Today, more than half of our legal department is located in our markets across numerous states. I also created national practice groups focused on providing legal support for various areas of business priority and launched a new legal operations group in the legal department focused on key value-add efforts’.

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