Louie Pastor. Courtesy photo.Icahn Enterprises' No. 2 In-House Lawyer Moves to Xerox as New GC
Louie Pastor, who on Wednesday was named executive vice president and general counsel at the Norwalk, Connecticut-based company, is Xerox's third GC in three years.
October 03, 2018 at 02:29 PM
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Xerox Corp. has a new top lawyer—its third in as many years.
The Norwalk, Connecticut-based company announced Wednesday that it has named Louie Pastor as executive vice president and general counsel. He succeeds Sarah Hlavinka, who joined Xerox in January 2017 and recently left to become senior VP, GC and corporate secretary at energy and water-resource management technology company Itron Inc.
Pastor most recently served as deputy GC at Icahn Enterprises for more than five years. In that role, he oversaw numerous long-term strategic initiatives, including the acquisitions and dispositions of various operating companies, and investments in and engagements with various public and private companies, according to a statement announcing his appointment. He also was responsible for the legal departments of the various operating subsidiaries of Icahn Enterprises, it said.
Pastor declined to comment at this time on his new position.
According to a January 2018 Corporate Counsel report, at Icahn, he was part of a two-lawyer legal department that represented billionaire investor and top Xerox shareholder Carl Icahn in his proxy fight with Xerox. (In a win for Icahn, a Manhattan state Supreme Court justice last May enjoined Xerox's “massively conflicted” merger with Fujifilm Holding Co., which would have provided no cash payment to company shareholders. The judge also greenlighted the election of new board members at an upcoming shareholder meeting.)
At Xerox, Pastor will oversee all of the company's legal affairs, including legal aspects of its various strategic initiatives, and lead its corporate security, government-related and public-policy activities on domestic and international affairs, according to the Xerox statement. He also will serve on the company's executive committee, it added.
“Louie's legal expertise and sharp insight will be instrumental in rebuilding Xerox into a technology powerhouse,” Xerox vice chairman and CEO John Visentin said in the statement.
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Pastor began his legal career as a corporate associate in the New York office of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Hlavinka, Pastor's predecessor, was hired at Xerox about six months after its former GC Don Liu left to take over the legal department at Target. According to a November 2013 profile of Liu in Corporate Counsel affiliate InsideCounsel, the Xerox legal department had at that time an in-house team of 150 lawyers who handle the company's legal affairs, including litigation and patent acquisition.
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