Ferroglobe PLC announced that it has appointed Thomas Wiesner as Chief Legal Officer, effective immediately. In addition to his responsibilities as Chief Legal Officer, Mr. Wiesner is expected to be appointed as Secretary to the Board of Directors of the company at upcoming Board meeting. Mr. Wiesner is a seasoned securities and transactional lawyer, having spent nearly a decade at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. Mr. Wiesner has extensive experience leading complex commercial transactions including debt and equity offerings, liability management exercises, syndicated loans and mergers and acquisitions, and has advised numerous US-listed foreign private issuers on corporate governance and ongoing public reporting. Mr. Wiesner holds a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and a B.A. from Yale University. Mr. Wiesner’s appointment follows the Company’s strategic decision to combine the roles of Chief Legal Officer and Secretary to the Board of Directors of the Company and locate the position in its Madrid, Spain office. He replaces the Company’s London-based Chief Legal Officer, Theodore Allegaert, who has left the Company to pursue other interests while being closer to his family, and Group Company Secretary Dorcas Murray, who has left Ferroglobe to pursue another opportunity in London.
Ferroglobe PLC is a producer of silicon metal and silicon-based alloys, variety of industrial and consumer products. The Company operates through four segments: United States of America, Canada, France, and Spain. It is involved in quartz mining activities in Spain, the United States, Canada; and South Africa, low-ash metallurgical coal mining activities in the United States, and interests in hydroelectric power in France. It sells its products to a diverse base of customers in a varied range of industries, such as aluminum, silicone compounds used in the chemical industry, ductile iron, automotive parts, renewable energy, photovoltaic (solar) cells, electronic semiconductors, and steel. Its solutions include silicon metal, manganese alloys, ferrosilicon, foundry products, calcium silicon, silica fume, electrodes, pulverized products, silicon for advanced technologies, and other. The Company's subsidiaries include Ferroglobe Finance Company PLC, and Ferroglobe Holding Company Ltd.
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