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Marie Oh Huber Engineered M&A Activity for Fortune 500
By James Moreau | 20 Jun, 2025
As Chief Legal Officer Marie Oh Huber led Fortune 500 companies in navigating mergers and acquisitions and other complex regulatory challenges.
Marie Oh Huber built a distinguished 25-year career providing legal counsel to global Fortune 500 technology, e-commerce, and life sciences companies.
Oh Huber was eBay’s Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel & Secretary from April 2015 to June 2024. During the first months of her tenure she oversaw PayPal’s spin off as a separate publicly traded company now valued at $70 billion, one of the biggest spin-offs in corporate history.
Other strategic divestitures by eBay under Oh Huber included the sale of StubHub to Viagogo for over $4 billion in 2020 and the sale of the eBay Classifieds Group in 2021 to Adevinta for $9.2 billion.
She also guided eBay through geopolitical, regulatory, and data privacy challenges during a time of major changes in its board, CEO, and executive leadership.
As an advocate for DE&I she co-sponsored at eBay the Asian Employees at eBay and other affinity groups to foster a sense of belonging in the workplace. After 9 years she left eBay with $6.5 million in severance.
As Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of Agilent Technologies from September 2009 to May 2015 Oh Huber finalized the acquisition of Varian, Inc. for $1.5 billion in May 2010 and smaller strategic acquisitions of BIOCIUS and Lab901 in 2011. These allowed Agilent to position itself as the leading provider of analytic instrumentation and expand capabilities and market reach within the life sciences sector.
Agilent Technologies itself had been the product of a spin-off Oh Huber oversaw in 1999 while at Hewlett-Packard where she was Corporate Counsel for 9 years beginning in 1990.
Prior to HP she worked as attorney for Heller Ehrman and Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP for 2 years each.
Since 2019 Oh Huber has been on the board of Portland General Electric and a lecturer at Stanford and Columbia’s Law Schools.
Among distinctions Oh Huber won are inclusion in the 2014 National Diversity Council’s Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology, a 2015 Women Leader in Tech Law Award, and inclusion in the 2024 100 AAPI Board Members Making a Difference.
Marie Oh Huber, 62, is a Milwaukee native raised by South Korean immigrants. In 1983 she earned a BA in Economics from Yale and in 1986, a JD from Northwestern University.
In 2025 she celebrates 37 years of marriage to husband John. They have two adult children and live in San Francisco.
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