Chief Legal Officers / General Counsel / Compliance Officers

• Jeff Beatrice, former Federal Prosecutor and General Counsel for Anti-Money Laundering at Citigroup, Joins Bradley Arant Boult Cummings [Source]
• Deborah Collum, appointed General Counsel at NEC Energy Solutions [Source]
• Tom Melbye Eide, will take on the role of General Counsel for BG Group on September 1.

Graham Vinter is set to retire as General Counsel later this year. The moves were confirmed before it emerged that BG was the target of a takeover by Royal Dutch Shell and it is currently unclear how the takeover will affect both companies' in-house legal teams. [Source]

• Kevin M. Lastorino appointed Corporate Chief Legal Officer of the Robert Wood Johnson Health System

Lastorino has more than 20 years of experience representing health care industry service providers and investors as outside general counsel and for specific corporate and regulatory matters. [Source]

• Alan McKnight has joined Regions Wealth Management as chief investment officer, and John Parker has been named head of Regions Institutional Services. [Source]
• Allan J. Sullivan has become the new General Counsel to the Vermont AHS (Agency of Human Services). [Source]

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- Gina Ponticello

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