Aviation services company Bristow Group Inc. has landed former General Electric Co. in-house leader Victoria Lazar as its next general counsel, vice president and corporate secretary. 

Lazar succeeds Timothy Knapp, who departed the Houston-based company last year as part of a restructuring effort to reduce costs. The Bristow Group's deputy general counsel, Bo Underwood, took over as acting GC in the wake of Knapp's exit. 

Bristow, which describes itself as the “world's leading industrial aviation service provider,” has a global aviation fleet and offers helicopter transportation, search and rescue, and aircraft support services to government and civil organizations. The company filed for Chapter 11 protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas in May.