Jamal Haughton

Charter’s General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

Jamal Haughton serves as Charter Communications’ chief legal officer, overseeing all legal functions across a broad range of disciplines including corporate, commercial, transactional, litigation, product and programming, as well as regulatory legal matters.

Jamal joined Charter as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary in 2023 from Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. (MSG Entertainment), where he served as the company’s Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, working closely with executive leadership to support MSG Entertainment’s long-term direction and growth.

Prior to MSG Entertainment, Jamal was Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Samsung Electronics America, Inc. He served as Samsung’s chief legal officer for the U.S. and provided counsel to the CEO and senior leadership on all legal matters affecting Samsung and its subsidiaries.

Earlier, Jamal spent 10 years at Cablevision Systems Corporation (now Altice USA) in roles of increasing responsibility. In his last role at Cablevision as Senior Vice President, Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary, Jamal provided ongoing legal counsel to the Board of Directors and senior executive management on corporate governance, public company reporting, corporate finance and major strategic companywide corporate transactions, including Cablevision’s sale to Altice USA in 2016.

Jamal’s Early Career

Jamal began his legal career in the New York office of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, where he spent seven years in the firm’s Corporate Practice specializing in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and securities law matters.

Jamal has been recognized with several industry honors, including Metropolitan Black Bar Association’s Corporate Counsel of the Year in 2025 and Chambers’ Global Top 100 GC Influencers in 2019. He received his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.