Newly Public Silvaco Hires First General Counsel From Synaptics

Silvaco Group Inc. has hired Candace Jackson to be the first general counsel and corporate secretary for the chip design and software company that may be best known for a unique legal dispute involving its late founder.

Jackson will join Silvaco as of Sept. 23, she said in an email. Her move comes four months after the company raised $114 million via an initial public offering.

“If you’d asked me 15 years ago, I didn’t expect to become a general counsel,” said the former Mayer Brown and Husch Blackwell associate. “I’d truly found my niche as a securities and corporate ...