Executive Leadership Team

Bob Bailey

Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer

Bob Bailey has more than 25 years of experience as a senior executive and more than 15 years as a chief legal officer at private and publicly traded companies in the health care industry, including formerly serving as EVP, Law, Policy and Communications at Bausch + Lomb from 2007 to 2013. He rejoined Bausch + Lomb from Datavant, a private health information technology company, where he most recently served as Chief Legal Officer. Previously, he served as EVP, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of Allergan plc and its predecessor companies, Forest Laboratories Inc. and Actavis plc. At Allergan, he led a legal team that closed more than 20 public and private M&A transactions, as well as several licensing arrangements. During his career, he also has led teams that defended and resolved a range of complex legal and regulatory matters, including investigations by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice; internal investigations; and intellectual property, antitrust, commercial, product liability and tax matters. Mr. Bailey began his legal career as an attorney at Nixon Peabody LLP before moving to Bausch + Lomb in 1994.

Mr. Bailey has previously served as a director of TearClear, an innovator in the ophthalmic pharmaceutical field; as a member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Litigation Center; and as a member of the board of trustees of the Foundation for the Morristown (NJ) Medical Center. He received his bachelor’s degree from St. Olaf College and his J.D. from the University of Minnesota.