St. Louis-based investment firm Edward D. Jones & Co. has recruited its new general counsel from Broadridge, a big provider of shareholder communications and financial technology to public companies.

Keir Gumbs has spent the last 2½ years as chief legal officer of publicly traded Broadridge, which is based in Lake Success, New York, and has 14,000 employees in 21 countries. Before that, he spent three years at San Francisco-based Uber, starting as associate general counsel and rising to deputy general counsel.