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Amy Tu was most recently chief administrative officer at Tyson Foods Target Corporation has recruited Amy Tu as chief legal and compliance officer and corporate secretary, effective August 25. She succeeds Don Liu, who had announced his upcoming retirement and will move into a strategic advisory role. Tu is joining Target having most recently been group president for international markets and chief administrative officer at Tyson Foods. She began work at Tyson in 2017 as executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary before becoming chief legal officer, secretary and head of global governance and corporate affairs. According to her…

Jamie Gallagher has spent 16 years with the company behind shows such as The Walking Dead Jamie Gallagher, veteran general counsel and executive vice president at AMC Networks, will retire at the end of the year. The company has launched a search for a successor. Gallagher joined AMC Networks in 2008 having previously been executive vice president and general counsel for Tommy Hilfiger Corporation. Before that he spent six years at HSN, formerly known as Home Shopping Network, as executive vice president and general counsel. Earlier in his career he was group counsel at American Express Travel Related Services. Before…

Rashida La Lande had been with the food company since 2018 Rashida La Lande will join The Estée Lauder Companies as executive vice president and general counsel, effective August 19. She will report to William Lauder, executive chair, and Fabrizio Freda, president and CEO. La Lande was previously chief legal and corporate affairs officer at The Kraft Heinz Company. Her decision to step down from the company was announced on Monday in an SEC filing. She joined Kraft Heinz as senior vice president, global general counsel and corporate secretary in January 2018. She was senior vice president, global general counsel…

Katherine Moran Meeks was previously a partner at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Fox News Media, which is owned by Fox Corporation, has hired Katherine Moran Meeks as general counsel, effective August 19. She will report to CEO Suzanne Scott. Meeks is joining the company from Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, where she has been a partner in the law firm’s Washington, DC office practicing in the litigation department in addition to the appellate and constitutional law and labor & employment groups. Meeks has represented journalists and media companies in libel and other speech-based tort cases. She has litigated appeals in state…

Eileen McCarthy was most recently deputy general counsel at UiPath JetBlue Airways has appointed Eileen McCarthy, a former attorney with the company, as its next general counsel and corporate secretary, effective August 5. McCarthy was most recently senior vice president and deputy general counsel at UiPath, an AI-focused enterprise automation software company. In that role she managed a global team handling corporate governance, securities, employment, ethics and compliance, privacy, insurance, ESG, litigation, equity, transactions and general corporate matters. Before joining UiPath in 2021, McCarthy spent more than 14 years at JetBlue. According to her LinkedIn profile, she was most recently…

Louise Pentland is joining Roku from The Walt Disney Company Streaming technology company Roku has hired Louise Pentland as its new senior vice president and general counsel, effective July 23. She will succeed Stephen Kay, who is retiring in November. Pentland is joining Roku from The Walt Disney Company, where she has been executive vice president and chief counsel for Disney Experiences and Products. In that role, she has overseen all legal and regulatory matters for the unit’s various businesses, which include its global theme park destinations, cruise operations, global consumer products operations and e-commerce platform. According to her LinkedIn…

Allen has been with the company for more than four decades Mark Allen, executive vice president, general counsel and secretary with FedEx Corporation, is retiring after spending 42 years with the company. According to FedEx, he will continue in his role until September 23, 2024, then become a senior adviser until the end of the year to help with the transition to an as-yet-unnamed successor. Allen joined FedEx in 1982 having previously been in private practice. Immediately before taking on his current role in 2017 he was based in Europe as the senior vice president and international general counsel for…

James Killerlane succeeds Kristina Fink, who recently joined CVS Health James Killerlane has joined American Express as corporate secretary and chief governance officer. According to LinkedIn, where he announced the move, Killerlane was most recently corporate secretary, managing director and deputy general counsel at BNY Mellon, where he has served since 2019. Before that, he was head of securities and corporate governance at American International Group for more than seven years. Killerlane was previously managing director at Morgan Stanley and before that senior vice president at Lehman Brothers. Ahead of moving in-house, he was an attorney with Chicago law firm…

Stacy Cozad to succeed Jeff Braun, who will retire in August Home security company Allegion has hired Stacy Cozad as senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary, effective August 5. Cozad most recently was executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Ingevity Corporation. According to her LinkedIn profile, before joining Ingevity in 2021 Cozad spent five years at Spirit AeroSystems as senior vice president, general counsel, chief compliance officer (CCO) and corporate secretary. She was previously associate general counsel with Southwest Airlines Co. Before moving in-house, Cozad was counsel with law firm Cash Klemchuk Powers Taylor and…

Prabha Sipi Bhandari has also worked in-house at Deutsche Bank Prabha Sipi Bhandari has joined Paychex as the company’s chief legal officer, chief ethics officer and secretary. Bhandari most recently was senior vice president, deputy general counsel and corporate secretary at American International Group (AIG). In that role, she oversaw the company’s NYSE and SEC compliance and legal support of capital markets, M&A, cyber-security, privacy, innovation, intellectual property, information technology, procurement and real estate matters. Before joining AIG, Bhandari was senior vice president and principal deputy general counsel at Freddie Mac. Before that, she spent more than a decade at…