This article has been updated  at 1:36 p.m. EDT with comment from Kirkland & Ellis.

Effective immediately, Viet Dinh, an independent director of the 21st Century Fox Inc. board and most recently a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, will become the new chief legal and policy officer of the combined company that will emerge from The Walt Disney Corp.’s purchase of Fox’s film and TV studios in the first half of 2019.