IB GC genealogy

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“We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.”

—Yuval Noah Harari

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Firm	Domicile	When	Who	Partner at	Prior Form	Clerkships
JPMorgan Chase	US	Current	Stacey Friedman	Sullivan & Cromwell	S&C lifer.	Clerk for the Honorable Gary L. Taylor, United States District Court, Central District of California.
Goldman Sachs	US	Current	Kathryn Ruemmler	Latham & Watkins LLP	Previously, she served as counsel to President Barack H. Obama and was his longest-serving White House counsel. She also served in the Department of Justice, including as Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General, Deputy Director of the Enron Task Force, and Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. Earlier in her career, Ms. Ruemmler served as Associate Counsel to President William J. Clinton.	Law clerk to Judge Timothy K. Lewis of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Goldman Sachs	US	2000-2011	Esta Stecher	Sullivan & Cromwell	S&C lifer.	None reported.
Citigroup	US	Current	Brent McIntosh	Sullivan & Cromwell	Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs. White House Associate Counsel to the President and then as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Staff Secretary	law clerk to two federal appellate judges, Dennis Jacobs of the Second Circuit and Laurence H. Silberman of the D.C. Circuit.
Bank of America	US	Current	Lauren Mogensen	Edwards & Angell, LLP (now Locke Lorde LLP)	Bank of America for two decades.	None reported.
Morgan Stanley	US	Current	Eric Grossman	Davis Polk & Wardwell	Davis Polk lifer.	Clerked for the Honorable Richard J. Cardamone, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, from 1993 to 1994.
UBS	Swiss	Current	Barbara Levi	None reported	Novartis, Rio Tinto (no ... financial services?)	None reported.
Credit Suisse	Swiss	Current	Markus Diethelm	Gibson Dunn & Crutcher	UBS	None reported.
HSBC	UK	Current	Bob Hoyt	Wilmer Hale	GC at Barclays. GC at PNC Financial Services Group. General Counsel to Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr at the US Department of the Treasury. Associate Counsel to US President George W. Bush.	Clerked at the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
Wells Fargo	US	Current	Ellen R. Patterson	Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP	TD Bank Group	None reported.
Barclays	UK	Current	Stephen Shapiro	Hogan Lovells	SABMiller plc (no ... financial services?)	None reported.
Santander	Spain	Current	John Collins	Inhouse lifer.	Citigroup, ABN AMRO Royal Bank of Scotland	None reported.
RBC	Canada	Current	Maria Douvas	Paul Hastings	federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York	None reported.
Deutsche Bank	Germany	Current	Karen Kuder	Inhouse lifer.	DB lifer.	None reported
JP Morgan	US	2007-2016	Steve Cutler	Wilmer Hale	Head of enforcement at the SEC, Simpson Thatcher now	Law clerk for Judge Dorothy Nelson on the Federal Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Wells Fargo	US	2017-2020	C. Allen Parker	Cravath, Swain & Moore	Cravath lifer.	Law clerk to the Honorable Amalya L. Kearse of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
JPMorgan	US	2003-2006	Joan Guggenheimer	Inhouse lifer.	Smith Barney, Citi, Bank One, JPMorgan	None reported.
Goldman Sachs	US	1991-2019	Greg Palm	Sullivan & Cromwell	S&C(adolescent) lifer.	Law clerk to Henry J. Friendly at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. And law clerk to Lewis F. Powell at the United States Supreme Court.
Goldman Sachs	US	2018-2021	Karen Seymour	Sullivan & Cromwell	Headed justice department criminal division. Gone back home to Sullivan & Cromwell	None reported.
UBS	Swiss	2012-2022	Markus Diethelm	Gibson Dunn & Crutcher	Credit Suisse since.	None reported.
Citigroup	US	2012-2021	Rohan Weeragsinghe	Shearman & Sterling	Senior Partner at Shearman	None reported.
Barclays	UK	2013-2020	Bob Hoyt	Wilmer Hale	GC at HSBC. GC at PNC Financial Services Group. General Counsel to Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr at the US Department of the Treasury. Associate Counsel to US President George W. Bush.	Clerked at the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts

See also

• General counsel
• Agency problem