Nike India director legal Priya Menon has joined US-headquartered co-working behemoth WeWork as its India general counsel (GC).

The 1996 NLSIU Bangalore graduate had from 2008 to 2010 worked at AOL Online as senior counsel, was AVP and legal counsel at Genpact from 2010 and 2015, and Nike’s director legal from 2015.

She succeeds previous WeWork India GC, Helen P, who headed up the legal function from July 2018 until joining OYO as assistant general counsel (AGC) last month.

WeWork, founded in 2010 in New York, provides shared office spaces for start-ups and businesses, and is one of the world’s most valuable private companies, with a valuation of $47bn.

It has been growing fast in India and has been mulling an IPO and bond issues, according to reports.

Menon declined to comment when contacted.