The GC Who Took Home $25 Million and 29 Other Highly Paid GCs
Bruce Sewell is Apple’s general counsel and senior VP of Legal and Global Security.
Bruce Sewell, senior vice president of legal and global security and general counsel at Apple Inc., leads Bloomberg Law’s list of the most highly compensated general counsel in American companies.
While his 2015 salary was $1 million, other benefits brought his total compensation to $25,017,626, according to the report.
The list names 30 of the best-paid GCs, with total compensation ranging from $4.8 million for Eli Lilly’s Michael Harrington, to Sewell’s $25 million.
The top five slots on the list include GCs from Apple, General Electric, Amgen, Hertz and PayPal.
Blake Edwards and Gabe Friedman, with special assistance from Brandon Kochkodin, compiled the list for Bloomberg.
