Wesfarmers has appointed Allens Arthur Robinson partner Paul Meadows as group general counsel.
Meadows worked at Linklaters in London in the 1980s before becoming a partner at Allens in 1989. He was appointed co-head of the firm's commercial litigation practice group in 2003 and selected as a senior advisor to UBS Investment Bank Australia in 2006.
In his new role, Meadows will have responsibility for overseeing all of Wesfarmers’ legal matters and will serve as a member of the group’s executive committee and leadership group.
As a result of his appointment, Meadows’ wife Patricia Cross has resigned from the board of Wesfarmers, where she had served as a non-executive director since 2003.
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