Nubank, the leading digital bank in Latin America, has appointed Sarah Wilson (pictured) as its new chief legal officer.
The Brazilian fintech has had an open position for its next legal chief since the departure of Elita Ariaz in early 2025. Ariaz is now general counsel at Brazilian bank Safra.
Wilson is based in New York, and joins from payments technology company Circle, which she joined in January 2024, becoming GC the next year. She previously held other senior roles at Duly Health and Care and Ventas, Inc, before which she was an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell for nearly six years.
David Vélez, founder and CEO at Nubank said: ‘Sarah brings a combination of legal depth, business judgment and experience navigating moments of significant complexity. Her track record across public markets, M&A, governance, and highly regulated industries will be valuable as we continue to pursue growth in our core markets, reshape Nubank around AI, and expand internationally with discipline.’
Elsewhere in the US, Catherine So has departed her role as GC at luxury jeweller Tiffany & Co, to join Michael Kors and Jimmy Choo parent company Capri Holdings as chief legal and sustainability officer.
So has spent the last five and a half years as GC at Tiffany & Co. She joined the company in 2015 as vice president and associate GC, and became general counsel and senior vice president for legal in 2021.
Earlier in her career, she spent six years at Merrill Lynch, as director of global wealth management litigation and then as first vice president for employment law. She also spent time as an assistant US attorney in the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, and as an associate at Debevoise & Plimpton.
Nvidia-backed data centre and cloud infrastructure company Nscale has hired Adam Rosman as chief legal officer.
Rosman joins from Fortune 500 fintech Fiserv, where he spent five years as chief legal officer and chief administrative officer.
Speaking about his new role Rosman commented: ‘Nscale is building the infrastructure and software layer powering the next industrial revolution. Joining at this moment as the company scales globally is a rare opportunity, and I look forward to being part of this management team which has such genuine operating depth and expertise.
‘I am excited to lead and build Nscale’s legal, regulatory, and governance functions for the next phase of the company’s growth and expansion.’
Taking over as chief legal officer at Fiserv is internal promotion Eric Nelson. Nelson has been with Fiserv since 2006, starting as assistant GC and becoming co-GC in 2021 and GC in 2023. He began his legal career at Gibson Dunn.
Live Nation Entertainment has hired Da-Wai Hu as its next general counsel, as current GC Michael Rowles is set to step back.
Hu will join Live Nation on 2 November from pet food retailer Chewy, where he has spent nearly three years as GC. Before that he spent just under two years at Checkout.com, and over a decade at Amazon in a range of senior legal roles. Earlier in his career, he worked at Sullivan & Cromwell as an associate and at Paul Weiss as a counsel.
UK-headquartered legal AI provider Luminance has turned to the US for its new GC, appointing Don Riddick as chief legal officer after the departure of Harry Borovick.
Borovick, who is based in the UK, has left the company after four and a half years leading the legal function.
Riddick, who will be based in the US, joins from AI infrastructure startup amotivv, where he spent the last ten months as founding principal and chief of strategy.
Earlier in his career, Riddick held senior legal roles at IBM, McKesson, TSYS and Featurespace.
AI infrastructure company Fireworks AI has hired Janel Thamkul as GC. From 2023 to May this year, Thamkul worked at Anthropic, where she was deputy general counsel. She began her career at California firm Farella Braun + Martel LLP, and moved to Google after nearly seven years.
Elsewhere, Angel Willis is set to leave her role as global GC at The Kraft Heinz Company. Willis has been with the company since 2024, joining from packaging and container manufacturer Sealed Air Corporation, where she was GC.
Sterling Infrastructure has appointed Katherine Hargis as GC, following the departure of Mark Wolf after a six-year tenure. Hargis joins from Houston-based Key Energy Services, where she spent 13 years, becoming GC in 2017.
Finally, Warner Bros. Discovery senior vice president, legal, M&A Dan Weinberger has left the company, with his exit coming just before Warner Bros completed its $110bn merger with Paramount.
Weinberger spent the last 18 years in different legal roles across Warner Bros. Entertainment, Warner Media, and Warner Bros. Discovery.
He has joined The Walt Disney Company, where he will take the role of deputy general counsel, corporate transactions.
The hire comes as Disney is set to streamline its legal department, according to a leaked memo seen by Legal Business.
