How a Career Law Firm Lawyer Landed in the GC Seat at Rivian
"My job is to stay calm with all the chaos around me," said Rivian general counsel Neil Sitron. "At Rivian, things change at a moment's notice."
November 22, 2021 at 04:34 PM
5 minute read
Automotive
The general counsel of Rivian Automotive, the newly public electric truck-maker with a market value higher than either Ford or General Motors, had been a corporate transactional attorney for a dozen years when company founder and CEO RJ Scaringe persuaded him to take the in-house plunge four years ago.
Neil Sitron, general counsel of Rivian Automotive. Courtesy photo "The more we talked, the possibilities seemed virtually endless," said Neil Sitron, who was a lawyer at Crowell & Moring in Washington, D.C., at the time. "RJ has this magnetism. He feels so passionate about electric vehicles and, more importantly, sustainability."
"It brings you in," he continued. "There are few opportunities in your life when you can literally change the world—especially as a corporate lawyer."
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