A Look At What Some of Big Pharma’s Top Lawyers Earned in 2019

Legal chiefs at pharmaceutical companies working on potential treatments for the coronavirus were among some of the highest-paid in the U.S. last year, according to a Bloomberg Law examination of 2019 proxy statements filed in recent weeks.

Amneal Pharmaceuticals Inc., a Bridgewater Township, N.J.-based company that makes the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine, which received emergency authorization Monday from the Food and Drug Administration to treat those suffering from Covid-19, gave a compensation package worth more than $3.65 million last year to its now former chief legal officer David Buchen.

Buchen officially stepped down Feb. 3 from his role as chief legal ...