Moody’s Corporation’s general counsel is stepping down after more than two decades in the job.
According to a filing with the SEC, executive vice president John Goggins will retire on September 4 having been in the post since 2000. He joined Moody’s Investors Service in February 1999 as vice president and associate general counsel.
Richard Steele will succeed Goggins, the filing states. He joined Moody’s KMV Company in 2006 as its chief legal officer and became general counsel of Moody’s Analytics in January 2008.
According to his LinkedIn profile, before joining the company Steele was corporate counsel at Autodesk. Before that he held senior legal positions at MSCI, Barra, Worldview Technology Partners and RealNames Corporation. Ahead of moving in-house, he was a corporate and securities associate with law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
A Moody’s spokesperson declined to comment.
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