Health Firms Guardant, Fresenius Grab New Legal Group Leaders

Health care companies continue to be among the busiest bringing on new legal and compliance leadership, with Silicon Valley-based Guardant Health Inc. and Germany’s Fresenius SE & Co KgaA among the latest making notable in-house additions.

Fresenius announced June 23 that Sebastian Biedenkopf will join its management board as chief legal and compliance officer and labor relations director. The company is currently embroiled in a dispute with Akorn Inc. over its scuttled $4.3 billion buyout of the U.S. generic drug maker, which filed for bankruptcy in May.

Guardant is a Redwood City, Calif.-based cancer detection company that raised $237.5 million ...