Apple Taps Meta Litigation Chief Scott Tucker for New VP Role
TL;DR
- Scott Tucker takes a newly created Apple VP role covering global litigation and legal matters tied to Apple's financial offerings.
- He arrives from Meta, where he was a longtime deputy general counsel and litigation chief, and previously held a senior legal position at Morgan Stanley.
- Tucker reports to Apple GC Jennifer Newstead, and current VP Heather Grenier now reports up through Tucker instead of directly to Newstead.
Apple has hired Scott Tucker, a "longtime deputy general counsel and litigation chief at Meta," as its new vice president of global litigation and financial services, Bloomberg reported on Oct. 16. Mark Gurman's story describes it as "a newly created position overseeing commercial and patent litigation worldwide," and extends Tucker's remit to legal matters tied to Apple's financial offerings.
Tucker, who held a senior legal position at Morgan Stanley before joining Meta, reunites with Apple general counsel Jennifer Newstead, herself a Meta veteran who "took over in March after serving as Meta's top lawyer for six years." Heather Grenier, Apple's vice president of commercial and competition litigation, "will move one level lower in the organization, reporting to Tucker instead of directly to Newstead," per Bloomberg.
Apple's legal shop is being rebuilt from the Meta bench, and the move lands the same day our tracker logged other high-visibility Meta legal signals, including a reported DOJ halt on a Meta drug-sales criminal probe.
Originally reported by 9to5mac.com
Read the original article →Original headline: Apple Hires Meta Deputy GC Scott Tucker for New VP of Global Litigation and Financial Services