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General Counsel

Sara Ponessa

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Sara Ponessa is our General Counsel and Secretary, a position she also held at Livent. As General Counsel and Secretary of Livent, she oversaw all legal matters worldwide for the company, including the successful merger of equals transaction between Livent and Allkem that created Arcadium Lithium. She brings over 25 years of experience across a breadth of legal and compliance functions. In addition to her roles at Arcadium Lithium and Livent, she has held senior counsel positions for the Lithium, Alkali and Peroxygens divisions of FMC Corporation and for AstraZeneca, one of the world’s leading biopharmaceutical companies. Before joining AstraZeneca, she was Vice President and Risk Management and Compliance Section Manager for Wilmington Trust Company. Before Wilmington Trust Company, she practiced corporate law at Saul Ewing in Philadelphia and was a judicial clerk for the New Jersey Supreme Court.