The In-house Transfer Window: legal moves at Travis Perkins, Mothercare and PayPal
A round-up of the latest in-house moves at companies including WeWork and Tate & Lyle
October 05, 2018 at 05:34 AM
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Travis Perkins has recruited Dairy Crest Group general counsel Robin Miller to lead its legal team, replacing Deborah Grimason, who had spent four and a half years at the company. Miller joins Travis Perkins after nearly 11 years at Dairy Crest, while Grimason has taken up a new role as GC and company secretary at ship management company V Group.
WeWork has appointed Sarah Nelson Smith as its first-ever European general counsel. She joins from KFC, where she was European legal chief officer. Nelson Smith will handle legal matters in Europe, where WeWork now has 11 different bases providing shared work spaces for technology startup subculture communities.
Mothercare has scrapped its general counsel position following the departure of Alice Darwall, who was acting group general counsel and company secretary. She replaced Andrew Eames who was interim GC and company secretary for five months until November 2017.
Ofgem has appointed former Pinsent Masons partner Euan McVicar as GC. McVicar joins the government electricity and gas regulator after five years as general counsel at Green Investment Group, previously having been a Pinsents partner for 14 years. McVicar is expected to continue working in Scotland, out of the company's Glasgow offices.
Tate & Lyle has appointed Lindsay Beardsell as executive vice-president and general counsel, following GC Robert Gibber stepping down after 28 years at the company. Beardsell joins from gaming operator GVC, where she was GC. Her new role will see her assume global responsibility for all legal issues and lead the company's legal, secretariat, quality, IP and insurance teams.
This summer also saw Leigh Murrin join PayPal as a new head of legal in Europe. Murrin replaces David Ferri, who was in the role since 2011. Since Murrin's succession, Ferri continued for a short while in a regulatory role at PayPal, but has now left the company. Murrin has previously worked at Hogan Lovells, Ashurst and Shearman and Sterling, before moving in-house to GE Capital. Before her recent appointment at the worldwide online payments system company, she was senior governance counsel at HSBC Holdings for six months.
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