Vodafone has appointed a new UK general counsel, Yahoo’s Jonathan McCoy. Simon Rendell, Osborne Clarke’s head of TMT had been Vodafone’s acting head of legal, but McCoy is set to start at the FTSE 100 company on 18 October.

McCoy was Yahoo’s European general counsel and had been at the company for five years. He has previously worked at Carter-Ruck & Partners as well as in-house at the BBC.