AbbVie Taps Deputy to Succeed Longtime Legal Chief Schumacher

AbbVie Inc. announced Monday that its longtime law department leader Laura Schumacher will retire after more than three decades at the company and its predecessor Abbott Laboratories.

Perry Siatis, a deputy general counsel at AbbVie, will succeed Schumacher as general counsel and corporate secretary following a transition period at the biopharmaceutical company. AbbVie was spun-off a decade ago from Abbott, a suburban Chicago-based medical device and health care giant.

“It is difficult to overstate the extraordinary impact Laura has had on AbbVie over the past 10 years,” said Richard Gonzalez, chairman and chief executive of the company, in a statement. ...