A nearly 25-year veteran of the legal department at a Boston-based manufacturing company is leaving to become the top lawyer at Axalta Coating Systems, a maker of coatings for light and commercial vehicles and industrial and refinish applications.

Brian Berube will assume the role of senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary at Philadelphia-based Axalta on July 15, according to a company statement announcing his hire. Berube, who joined Boston-based Cabot Corp. in 1994, succeeds Michael Finn, who left Axalta last December to become executive vice president, GC and corporate secretary at Nouryon, according to Finn’s LinkedIn profile.