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Corporate Counsel

JetBlue Legal Chief's Pay Took Flight in 2023, Even as Challenges Grounded Airline's Stock

General counsel Brandon Nelson received more in compensation in 2023 than he did in 2019 through 2022 combined, the company's proxy statement shows.
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Corporate Counsel

Kraft Heinz Promotes Legal Chief After Year in Which Her Pay Declined

Rashida La Lande has helped set the company's ESG agenda, including a goal it announced in July of reducing the use of virgin plastic globally by 30% by 2030.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

You May Not Have Heard of This Legal Chief, but His Chart-Topping Comp Far Exceeds That of Many You Have

Edward Nekritz, who is in the warehousing business, placed 11th on last year's list of highest-paid legal chiefs, surrounded by legal chiefs in far flashier fields such as tech, media and finance.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Hefty Signing Bonus, Stock Award Juiced Grainger's CLO's First-Year Compensation

The industrial supply giant had to ante up a $3.3 million in cash and stock to offset what Nancy Berardinelli-Krantz forfeited when she resigned from the power management company Eaton.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Goldman Sachs Reports 2023 Comp for CLO Kathryn Ruemmler

Kathryn Ruemmler and other top executives benefited in 2022 from the granting of millions of dollars in so-called shareholder value-creation awards. But last year, as the company retreated from an unsuccessful push into providing consumer loans for the masses, it awarded no SVC grants.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Discover CLO Scored $3M Change-in-Control Payment in 2023—And May Get an Even Bigger One This Year

Hope Mehlman, who helped engineer the $16 billion sale of her last employer, Bank of the West, before joining Discover, now is helping Discover try to sell itself for $35 billion.
3 minute read

International Edition

Canadian Survey Shows Wide Gap Between Male and Female In-House Salaries

The survey also showed that one of the greatest salary gaps, other than gender, was between hybrid, remote and on-site workers.
3 minute read

International Edition

Canadian Survey Shows Wide Gap Between Male and Female In-House Salaries

The survey also showed that one of the greatest salary gaps, other than gender, was between hybrid, remote and on-site workers.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

IBM's Soon-to-Depart General Counsel Saw Her Pay Spike 24% in 2023

IBM's compensation committee praised Michelle Browdy's work advancing the company's AI business strategy as well as enhancing its "AI ethics posture."
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Uber Hits $120B Valuation, Unlocking Huge Equity Grant for CLO Tony West

West would have forfeited the award—handed out in 2018 after he gave up the GC post at PepsiCo to join the ride-hailing company—if Uber had not reached the valuation milestone by March 2028.
3 minute read

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