Affirm Taps Ex-Toyota Unit GC as Post-IPO Legal Head (Correct)

Affirm Holdings Inc., a financial technology company that went public earlier this year, will see former Toyota Financial Services General Counsel Katherine Adkins take over as its top lawyer next month.

San Francisco-based Affirm, which raised roughly $1.2 billion through an initial public offering in January, announced Monday that Adkins will succeed Sharda Caro del Castillo as chief legal officer on June 30.

The company, which provides point-of-sale financing to online customers, hired Adkins after she spent a decade as legal chief for the Toyota’s captive financial services arm, the largest non-bank financial institution in the U.S. Adkins, ...