Luminar Technologies Inc. gave its new chief legal officer Alan Prescott nearly $30 million in total compensation last year to lure him away from Tesla Inc.
Prescott, a former safety engineer and in-house lawyer at Ford Motor Co., served as senior counsel for autonomous vehicles at Uber Technologies Inc. prior to joining Tesla in 2017. He became acting general counsel and corporate secretary for Elon Musk’s electric automaker in late 2019.
Tesla is just one of several Musk-controlled entities that has cycled through law department leaders in recent years.
Luminar is a laser sensor startup backed by billionaire Peter ...
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