Starbucks Legal Chief Sees Pay Spike 40% After CEO Switch (1)

Starbucks Corp.’s chief legal officer Bradley Lerman saw his total compensation rise 40% last year with the blessing of the coffee chain’s new leader, CEO Brian Niccol, according to a proxy statement filed Friday.

Lerman was the only one of four named executive officers to receive an “above target score” for his pay due to the “number of extraordinary legal and governance matters” under his purview, according to the Seattle-based company’s most recent proxy filing. Niccol, who received a $113 million pay package from Starbucks last summer and earned $96 million in his first four months as CEO, ...