Players On the Move

Before that, Lee spent seven years as general counsel of Chicago-based Northstar Lottery Group and four years as general counsel of the Illinois Student Assistance Commission. Before Lee's hiring, Bally's top lawyer was Craig Eaton, who has been general counsel for 18 years. He will remain as general counsel reporting to Lee, according to a Bally's spokesperson. In addition to having the title chief legal officer, Lee will be an executive vice president. Bally's owns and manages 15 casinos across 10 states, a horse track in Colorado and has access to online sports betting licenses in 18 states. The company, which has 10,500 employees, recently paid $200 million to buy a 30-acre Chicago Tribune printing plant in Chicago where it plans to build Bally's Chicago. … Unity Software, best known for its video-game development platform, has named in-house attorney Anirma Gupta as general counsel. Gupta will report to Unity CEO John Riccitiello. Gupta joins Unity from 3D printer manufacturer Carbon, where she was chief legal officer for two years. Previously, she helmed legal and compliance teams at cybersecurity company Tanium. She was also formerly with Sun Microsystems and Intuit. Unity's flagship product is its eponymous game engine used to create three- and two-dimensional environments for best-selling video game titles such as Pokémon Go, Genshin Impact and Among Us. Its real-time 3D development platform has also been used outside gaming, including in the film industry. Unity's most recent business moves have drawn ire across the gaming community for its data security risks. In November, Unity closed its $4.4 billion purchase of Israeli software company ironSource. The deal came under fire due to ironSource's history of malware distribution, via its installCore platform. InstallCore is so infamous it's been blacklisted by Microsoft and is often blocked by antivirus software. … Jennifer Malloy has joined the Venable law firm as a counsel in the advertising and marketing group in the Los Angeles office. Malloy advises clients on matters related to federal and state advertising laws and regulations. Malloy's areas of focus include counseling clients on consumer-facing advertising for compliance purposes in both direct-response and retail sales channels, including television, radio, inbound telemarketing, websites, print, digital, social media and labels/packaging. She also negotiates domestic and international transactions involving mergers and acquisitions, foreign restructurings, IP licensing, software development services, entertainment, joint ventures, online content, book publishing and celebrity endorsements. … Kapil Chaudhary, a former senior legal counsel for Twitter in India, has joined the San Francisco-based online gaming company Junglee Games as its first general counsel. Chaudhary brings to Junglee Games more than two decades of legal experience, the last 16 months at Twitter. Chaudhary has held leadership positions across various companies including the construction software maker Autodesk and IBM. Junglee Games launched in 2012. In January 2021, Flutter Entertainment acquired a 50.1% stake in the company for $66.2 million. Junglee's games include Howzat, Junglee Rummy and Solitaire Gold. … BuzzFeed, which has been banged up on Wall Street since going public last year, is losing its chief legal officer at the end of the year. The New York-based digital media company disclosed in a regulatory filing that Rhonda Powell is stepping down after four years as chief legal officer and will be succeeded by David Arroyo, BuzzFeed's chief compliance officer and head of litigation. Prior to joining BuzzFeed, Powell was chief legal officer of online audio and media company Complex Networks. She earlier spent more than a decade at Scripps Networks Interactive in various legal leadership roles. Arroyo joined BuzzFeed in 2019 after spending a year as senior vice president and global head of compliance at Discovery. He also spent more than a decade at Scripps Networks Interactive serving in various leadership roles. In addition to its namesake media site, BuzzFeed operates the Tasty, Complex and HuffPost brands. The company went public last year through a special purpose acquisition company. BuzzFeed raised just $16 million after investors withdrew about 94% of the $287 million the company had expected to raise as a SPAC. Since going public, BuzzFeed's stock has lost 83% of its value — a slide stemming partly from weakness in the digital advertising market. BuzzFeed has been trying to reduce its reliance on advertising and bolster alternative revenue streams, such as sponsored content.

— Hugo Guzman, Trudy Knockless and Patrick Smith contributed to this report.