Twitter Hires Skadden Lawyer as Musk Tackles Litigation (2)

Twitter Inc. has hired former Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom associate Adeeb Sahar for a top legal job as the company grapples with a growing list of legal liabilities, including a lawsuit filed Monday by its former legal chief.

Sahar is Twitter’s new global head of commercial, corporate, and international law after working in Skadden’s office in Palo Alto, Calif., where he spent nearly four years after joining the law firm as a summer associate in 2018.

At Skadden, Sahar was part of a team of lawyers that advised Twitter’s billionaire leader Elon Musk on his $44 billion acquisition ...