Pendrell Corporation announced that Robert Jaffe will join the company as general counsel and corporate secretary effective June 20, 2012, reporting to Ben Wolff, the company's CEO. Mr. Jaffe will direct all legal activities for the Company and its subsidiaries. Mr. Jaffe's career spans nearly forty years as an attorney, including twenty-five years as a partner with the law firm K&L Gates and its predecessor firm, Preston Gates and Ellis. He has extensive experience in the areas of corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, financing transactions and in the acquisition and protection of intellectual property rights. He has served as primary outside counsel for numerous publicly traded and privately held corporations, completing hundreds of acquisitions, mergers, reorganizations, financings and joint ventures. Mr. Jaffe was named a Washington Law and Politics "Super Lawyer" in 2003 and from 2005 - 2011, and was recognized by Best Lawyers from 2007 - 2011.