Eli Lilly and Co. has appointed Anat Hakim as senior vice-president and general counsel, effective February 3. Hakim succeeds Michael J. Harrington who will retire on January 31, 2020. 

Ms. Hakim most recently served as executive vice president, general counsel and secretary at WellCare Health Plans, where she provided strategic counsel on a broad range of legal, business and operational matters for the company and its board of directors. She was recently recognized as General Counsel of the Year in 2019 by Corporate Counsel. Before WellCare, Hakim served as divisional vice president, associate general counsel for intellectual property litigation at Abbott Laboratories, and later as the company’s divisional vice president, associate general counsel for litigation.

“I am excited to welcome Anat to Lilly as our new general counsel,” said David A. Ricks, Lilly’s chairman and chief executive officer. “Anat’s legal expertise and prior experiences in the pharmaceutical industry, across healthcare more broadly, and as general counsel at WellCare Health Plans make her the ideal person to lead Lilly’s law division. I look forward to the external perspective and informed legal opinion that she will bring to our executive team as we continue to progress our innovation-based strategy and develop new medicines for patients around the world.”

Mr. Ricks added, “I want to take this opportunity to again thank Mike Harrington for his significant contributions throughout his time at Lilly. Over the past eight years, Mike has very successfully led our legal organization and was a great partner to me and the Lilly Board of Directors. We are grateful for his leadership and wish him well in this next chapter of his life.”