Petco, BarkBox Bound Into Public Markets With New Top Lawyers
“Matthew Miller, a former top lawyer at cannabis company Green Thumb Industries Inc., joined BarkBox Inc. as its general counsel this month, the company confirmed,” reports Brian Baxter in Bloomberglaw’s Business & Practice.
“Petco Health and Wellness Inc. also confirmed it hired Ilene Eskenazi as chief legal officer and corporate secretary before the company raised $864 million through a mid-January initial public offering. The company trades under the ticker symbol WOOF.”
“Petco this month hired Sunayna Ramdeo, associate general counsel for compliance, and Giovanni Insana, assistant general counsel for securities, from their in-house roles at IHS Markit Ltd. and InterDigital Inc., respectively. Other legal recruits by the newly public Petco include corporate counsel Cindy Kung, veterinary services counsel Mark Arimoto, and employment counsel Matthew Wroblewski.”
