Welcome to the latest edition of the Lit Daily’s In-House Litigation Leaders series where we focus on lawyers making the hiring decisions, shaping the strategies and managing the caseloads at some of the nation’s largest and most innovative companies. 

Meet Steve Mahieu, the deputy general counsel for litigation and intellectual property at The Kraft Heinz Company. Mahieu, who is based in Chicago, spent a half dozen years practicing as a litigation associate at Dykema Gossett before joining the company in 2016. His responsibilities at Kraft Heinz expanded in 2020 beyond litigation to include overseeing the company’s legal operations function, and expanded again about a year-and-a-half ago to include intellectual property.