Features Senior Corporate Counsel

By the time Roger LeBoeuf joined the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority three years ago, he had already built up a decades-long career in construction law. One moment stands out to him. He was sitting in a deposition where a legal counsel asked a developer about bidding wars among contractors. The developer eventually gave a wry […]

When Alex Kiles joined Airbnb as its policy senior counsel, he knew all about policymaking, having worked on both the House and Senate sides of the Hill. But he hadn’t yet learned all he needed to know. That’s because that was federal policymaking, and state and local policies regulate short-term rentals. “There were two big […]

Aisin (pronounced “eye-shin”) Holdings America is one of the largest companies no one has ever heard of, says Patti-Ann Audia. Headquartered in Northville, Michigan, a township just outside Detroit, the company is part of the Toyota Motor Group and employs more than 16,000 people at 34 different companies in North America, including four facilities in […]

Though it’s not true that the cloud can be contained in a building the size of a football field, data centers used by cloud service providers are frequently that large.  In the case of Equinix, a provider of digital infrastructure and cloud services and solutions currently celebrating its 25th anniversary, its 250 data centers are […]

Lindsey Catlett may not meet directly with Simmons Bank customers as they apply for loans, open accounts or use the other financial services the bank provides.  But as vice president and senior corporate counsel, she’s part of the team managing Simmons Bank’s day-to-day legal affairs, including integrating the teams and products from the banks Simmons […]

In a hot housing market with inventory low and there often being multiple bidders for a desirable property, cold cash has the inside track. So, what’s one to do if caught between trying to sell one house and buy another but lacking the wherewithal to consummate the deal ASAP?  Among the options: Harnessing the NAF […]

Should Mark Bach take in a Chicago Bears game, he’d be reminded of his exclusive professional status. Not that he’s one to feel special, but at last count there were fewer than 51,000 patent practitioners in the United States, and he and the others would fall more than 10,000 short of Soldier Field’s capacity. “The […]

Searching for the right partner can be a competitive pursuit. How much more favorable the odds can be when one harnesses Match Group’s global portfolio of online dating brands including Tinder, Match, Hinge and OkCupid, which have been helping people all over the world make meaningful connections for over 20 years. Yet Match Group faces […]

Thousands of hours spent on research and clinical trials—and billions of dollars. These are the starting ingredients for innovative pharmaceuticals, according to Vance Camisa.   For the ones that successfully make it to the shelves and into the hands of the public, those products—medicines and therapies—have an average protected life span of approximately eight years. Within […]

Some people watch the Super Bowl for the game and others for the commercials. On Feb. 12, 2023, Jenna Hsieh was part of the latter, interested in one particular advertisement: Dialpad’s.   The day before the kickoff, the software company’s chief marketing officer sent a company-wide e-mail with the full commercial, but Hsieh waited to watch […]