Eli Lilly & Co. has a new general counsel, thanks in part to a mega-merger between two health insurers.
Centene Corp. closed this week on its $17 billion acquisition of Tampa-based WellCare Health Plans Inc., leaving the target’s general counsel, Ana Hakim, looking for a new job.
Hakim, hired by WellCare as its in-house legal chief in 2016 after serving as an associate general counsel for litigation and divisional vice president at suburban Chicago-based Abbott Laboratories Inc., will relocate from Florida to Indianapolis in order to lead Eli Lilly’s law department starting Feb. 3.
The pharmaceutical company said in a ...