Malini Moorthy

Malini Moorthy joined argenx as General Counsel in 2022. She has extensive global legal and compliance experience in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries and is a devoted leader known for building, developing, and mentoring high-performing and inclusive teams. Malini was most recently Senior Vice President & Chief Deputy General Counsel, Legal, Compliance & Government Affairs at Medtronic where she played a pivotal role in shaping and driving enterprise and functional strategies. In addition, she served as the Legal Leader supporting the Neuroscience Portfolio, and directly managed Litigation & Investigations, IP Litigation, Employment and Immigration Law, Enterprise Legal Regulatory and Legal Operations.

Before joining Medtronic in 2018, Malini spent four years at Bayer where she was the Head of Global Litigation & Investigations. Prior to that, she progressed in her ten-year career at Pfizer to lead civil litigation globally. Malini began her career as a law firm associate, first with McCarthy Tétrault and Genest Murray Desbrisay Lamek in Toronto, Canada and then Salans (now Dentons) in New York City.

Malini is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University in Canada. She is a member of the American Law Institute and serves on the board of Lawyers for Civil Justice and the Leadership Council of the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law School.