Ron Soiefer is the Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of Unilever United States, Inc. and Regional General Counsel of the Americas for Unilever. He joined the Unilever United States Law Department in June, 1994 from GAF Corporation, where he was Vice President-Law. He is a graduate of The Harvard Law School and spent the first seven years of his career practicing corporate law at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City. Prior to GAF, Ron was Senior Vice President and General Counsel of The Oxford Energy Company, a New York-based developer and owner of resource recovery and cogeneration plants. Since joining Unilever, Ron has played the lead counsel role in several significant corporate transactions, including the purchase of the Gorton’s frozen fish and seafood business from General Mills, the sale of Anderson Clayton’s Mexican pet foods business to Ralston Purina and the divestiture of Elizabeth Arden’s Erno Laszlo cosmetics business to Mana Products. After becoming General Counsel in January 1996, Ron served as lead counsel in the acquisitions of Helene Curtis, Diversey, and Ben & Jerry's, and was responsible for U.S. legal aspects of the disposition of the specialty chemicals companies and the acquisition of Bestfoods.
Ron is a native of Westchester County and lives on the East Side of Manhattan. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College, where he majored in American history and literature.
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