Kim M. Rivera
Kim Rivera is Chief Legal Officer for DaVita HealthCare Partners (NYSE DVA) a global Fortune 500 healthcare services company with 65,000 teammates and operations in 11 countries. Kim is responsible for global risk management, internal audit, and legal matters. She has 20 years experience in advising Fortune 500 companies on corporate transactions, including acquisitions and divestitures, governance, compliance, risk management and litigation. Kim has managed a complex and diverse portfolio of business, risk and legal matters during her tenure at DaVita. She helped navigate the company and the board through DaVita's most significant corporate acquisition, international expansion, a standstill with the company's largest shareholder, an antitakeover program, multiple regulatory investigations, and the most fundamental regulatory shift in healthcare since the advent of Medicare. As a member of executive management and advisor to the board, Kim has worked on all aspects of these and other strategic enterprise matters. Before joining DaVita, Kim was the Chief Compliance Officer, head of International Legal Operations and oversaw global labor and employment counseling and litigation at The Clorox Company. Before joining Clorox, Kim served as General Counsel for a $2B division of Rockwell International. She later served as Chief Litigation Counsel for Rockwell. Kim began her career at Jones Day where she advised Fortune 500 companies on diverse litigation matters including class action, commercial, employment and product liability matters. Kim is a member of the Association of Corporate Counsel and was elected to the American Law Institute in 2014.
(05/14)
