She will start at WeWork in December, whose core legal team is based in New York and led by overall general counsel Peter Greenspan. WeWork has stepped up its expansion plans in Europe after hiring its first general legal counsel in the region. The company, which now boasts 11 regional headquarters across 11 countries on the continent, has hired the former European chief legal officer at KFC , Sarah Nelson Smith , to oversee the company's operations in the area. Smith , who will also be in charge of the firm's six offices located in Israel and Australia , was named in-house lawyer of the year in 2014 by The Lawyer and will begin her new role in the year in 2014 .
WeWork has stepped up its expansion plans in Europe after hiring its first general legal counsel in the region. The company, which now boasts 11 regional headquarters across 11 countries on the continent, has hired the former European chief legal officer at KFC , Sarah Nelson Smith , to oversee the company's operations in the area. Smith , who will also be in charge of the firm's six offices located in Israel and Australia , was named in-house lawyer of the year in 2014 by The Lawyer and will begin her new role in the year in 2014 .