GC Influencers
Most Influential GCs - Global-wide
Katherine L Adams of Apple, Inc
Katherine Adams arrived at Apple in 2017 to serve as the company’s general counsel and senior vice president for legal and global security, having previously served as the general counsel of Honeywell. Adams’ appointment placed her in charge of a number of major ongoing disputes involving the technology giant, the most prominent among them being two long-running intellectual property battles with Qualcomm and Samsung being fought in courtrooms across the globe. Adams, however, can rely on a solid grounding in significant disputes matters, having spent 10 years practicing in Sidley Austin’s environmental and litigation groups, served as a prosecutor in the US Department of Justice and having clerked for two Supreme Court Justices, Sandra Day O’Connor and Stephen Breyer, the latter in his prior capacity as a chief judge on the First Circuit appellate court.