Brian Baxter

New Jersey, New York

Correspondent at Bloomberg Industry Group

PR Person/Journalist. Healthcare and sports. Sam Cooke enthusiast.

Articles

Adobe Hires Roku’s Top Lawyer as Company Faces AI Challenges

3 weeks ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Brian Baxter

Adobe's new legal chief, Louise Pentland, will have a portfolio that includes policy issues and government relations Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg May 14, 2025, 9:30 PM UTCLouise Pentland is moving into a role vacated by Dana RaoShe’s been top lawyer for PayPal, Nokia, and Disney’s parks unitAdobe Inc. announced Wednesday its addition of Roku Inc.’s top lawyer A. Louise Pentland as its new chief legal officer.
Veteran Legal Chiefs Launch Velocity to Work Within Clients

3 weeks ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Brian Baxter

Douglas Luftman, Monica Winghart met two decades agoThey recently were signatories to Big Law amicus briefsA pair of former law department leaders and a longtime human resources executive are starting Velocity Edge Advisors Inc., an outfit that seeks to provide “on-demand” legal and people services to a range of clients looking to avoid the financial overhead that often comes with such corporate cost centers.
Robert Benton obituary

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Brian Baxter

Cultured, modest, intelligent: not words that immediately spring to mind when describing most Hollywood moviemakers. But for the writer-director Robert Benton, who has died aged 92 they are entirely apt. Combined with a sparse output, those qualities kept him on the periphery of mainstream cinema and its publicity treadmill – despite Oscar-winning successes including Kramer vs.
GM Hires IBM’s Top AI Governance Lawyer as Ex-Law Head Exits (1)

3 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Brian Baxter

General Motors Co. has hired Christina Montgomery, a 30-year legal veteran at International Business Machines Corp., as its new chief privacy and trust officer. Montgomery had a key role overseeing IBM’s artificial intelligence governance, data, and privacy program. In that position, she testified before Congress on potential AI-related regulations and served on the Commerce Department’s AI advisory committee during the Biden administration.
Chip Designer Cadence Hires New Legal Chief From Arista

3 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Brian Baxter

Cadence Design Systems Inc., a provider of tools used by engineers to make chips that enhance the power of generative artificial intelligence, has hired Marc Taxay as its new top lawyer. Taxay joined the chip design software maker after more than a dozen years as general counsel for Arista Networks Inc. Taxay resigned from Arista as of May 7, according to a securities filing by the computer networking company. Cadence then added Taxay’s online biography to the leadership page of its website.
Chip Designer Cadence Hires New Legal Chief From Arista

3 weeks ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Brian Baxter

Marc Taxay swaps computer networking for semiconductor designHe sold off about $14 million in Arista Networks stock before departureCadence Design Systems Inc., a provider of tools used by engineers to make chips that enhance the power of generative artificial intelligence, has hired Marc Taxay as its new top lawyer. Taxay joined the chip design software maker after more than a dozen years as general counsel for Arista Networks Inc.
Substack Snags New General Counsel Amid Expanding Ambitions

1 month ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Brian Baxter

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Substack Snags New General Counsel Amid Expanding Ambitions

1 month ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Brian Baxter

Adam Inglis, a Canadian lawyer, is media upstart’s law leaderHas worked in-house at OneTrust, SurveyMonkey, WorkBoardSubstack Inc., a digital media platform that is branching into alternative forms of news and entertainment, has hired Adam Inglis to fill a general counsel position that has been vacant for a few years. Inglis, who spent almost a decade working for software company SurveyMonkey Inc., recently took to LinkedIn to announce his new role as Substack’s top lawyer.
Blue Owl’s Legal Chief Surges to Top-Paid Among Asset Managers

1 month ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Brian Baxter

Blue Owl Capital Inc. gave more than $24.4 million last year to its chief legal officer and general counsel Neena Reddy, bringing a relatively new name into the elite total compensation tier of asset management lawyers. Reddy, a member of Blue Owl’s executive and operating committees, earned more than her peers at prominent publicly traded companies in the broader financial services and investment space, including those at Apollo Global Management Inc., Blackstone Inc., and The Carlyle Group Inc.
Mike Lindell’s Rebranded Media Business Hires New Legal Chief

1 month ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Brian Baxter

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