PepsiCo Promotes Internally Again in Legal Chief Shuffle (1)

For the second time in four years, PepsiCo Inc. will have a new top lawyer, David Flavell, who is now the company’s deputy general counsel and chief compliance and ethics officer.

Flavell will take over March 1 from David Yawman as PepsiCo’s general counsel and corporate secretary. Yawman became PepsiCo’s legal chief in 2017 following the departure of former Justice Department lawyer Tony West, who left to take the top legal job at Uber Technologies Inc.

PepsiCo said in a Jan. 28 statement that Yawman is leaving the company where he has spent more than 22 years to pursue ...