Pfizer gets a lawyer as CEO
New York: Jeffrey Kindler, a lawyer by career has been appointed as the chief executive officer of the world's largest pharma company Pfizer.

Pfizer Inc in a surprise announcement ended Hank McKinnell's tenure as CEO more than a year before schedule.

The 51-year-old Kindler joined Pfizer in 2002 and is an unknown quantity to Wall Street.

Before joining Pfizer, Kindler was chairman and chief executive officer of Boston Market Corp., owned by McDonald's Corp., and president of Partner Brands, also owned by McDonald's.

He had previously held top corporate legal jobs, serving as general counsel of McDonald's for about five years, and earlier worked as vice president and senior counsel for litigation and legal policy for General Electric Co.

Kindler was hired initially by Pfizer as senior vice president and general counsel, but his role expanded to include oversight over corporate affairs, government relations and philanthropy.

Last year Kindler and two other senior executives were named vice chairman at Pfizer.

Kindler is best known for being the company's top lawyer when the company won a major court case protecting U.S. patents on the Lipitor cholesterol treatment last December securing the Pfizer's hold on Lipitor, the world's biggest-selling drug.

Kindler graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University in 1977 and obtained his law degree in 1980 from Harvard Law School. He also served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review and was a classmate of the current U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts.
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