RSA global head of legal Charlotte Heiss has been promoted to the role of chief legal officer and company secretary after it was announced that incumbent group GC, company secretary and global broker relationship director Derek Walsh will step down from the role at the end of February. Ms Heiss joined RSA only last year after leaving Linkaters, where she was a managing associate in corporate practice. As part of her new role Ms Heiss will oversea RSA's panel of legal advisers, which include Allen & Overy, Ashurst, Linklaters, Norton Rose Fulbright and Slaughter and May.

Peer-to-peer lender RateSetter has recruited its first ever head of legal, scooping up Angela Yotov from the in-house team at Barclays. Ms Yotov is expected to help guide RateSetter as it expands, especially with the looming arrival of the Innovative Finance ISA. Having trained at at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Ms Yotov was a lawyer at Latham & Watkins for nearly two years before commencing her in-house career with Barclays almost 10 years ago.

Multinational oil conglomerate ExxonMobil has appointed Alhaji Sadiq Abubakar Adamu as general counsel for the company's Nigerian business. A graduate of Harvard University Law School, Mr Adamu joined Mobil Oil Corporation in Virginia early in his career and has since worked in a wide variety of capacities, including founding his own law firm Sadiq & Co. Mr Adamu has negotiated and finalised projects for ExxonMobil in seven different countries, and has helped close more than $15bn worth of ExxonMobil projects in Nigeria alone since 2005.

Meanwhile, San Fancisco-based software-as-service company InsideView has recruited Nicole Campbell as its new general counsel and company secretary. Ms Campbell joins InsideView from SK Planet, where she also functioned as general counsel and oversaw the company's acquisition of mobile app start-up Shopkick. Before coming in house, Ms Campbell practiced with San Francisco and Silicone Valley-based law firms, servicing clients including Adobe and Yahoo. 

Finally, longtime Jefferson Health System chief legal officer David F. Simon has announced that he will be taking up the same position at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine from 8 February. Mr Simon will depart from law firm Elliott Greenleaf, where he has been a senior shareholder and co-chairman of the firm's executive committee for less than 12 months. He will retain his position as chairman of the Pennsylvania eHealth Partnership Authority, which overseas the state's electronic health data exchange.