Coca-Cola Shakes Up In-House Legal Team, Swapping Out Gayton (2)

April 21, 2021, 5:47 PM UTCUpdated: April 21, 2021, 10:01 PM UTC

The Coca-Cola Co. announced Wednesday that it is moving legal chief Bradley Gayton to a “strategic consultant” role less than a year after he joined the company and promoting in-house lawyer Monica Howard Douglas to general counsel.

Gayton, who joined Coca-Cola on Sept. 1 and recently announced ambitious new diversity requirements for the company’s outside lawyers, will immediately become a strategic consultant to Coca-Cola chairman and CEO James Quincey.

“I, along with the company’s leadership team and the board of directors, thank Bradley for his service as our global general counsel,” Quincey said in a statement. “I look forward to ...

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