Scandal-weary SNC-Lavalin Group Inc., a global engineering firm and one of Canada’s largest construction companies, has hired Charlene Ripley to succeed retiring general counsel and executive vice-president Hartland Paterson. 

Ripley joins SNC as the Montreal-based firm continues to fight federal fraud and corruption charges connected to an alleged bribery scheme in Libya, one that has entangled Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.