Ted Ullyot leaves Facebook for the time being because he wants to take some time off as general counsel.

Being the leader of the company's legal team since 2008, Ted Ullyot leaves Facebook officially in July, according to a report from AllthingsD.com on Friday.

The search for his replacement will include internal and external candidates, AllthingsD.com reported since the head of the legal department, Ted Ullyot, leaves Facebook after nearly five years with the company.

In September 2008, Ullyot was hired as the general counsel to Facebook. At the time, the site had more than 100 million members and was valued at $15 billion. His job was and still is to deal with and address the complicated privacy issues that Facebook entails due to its wealth of user data.

Ullyot has presided over a plethora of legal issues, including managing high-stakes and complex litigation that ranged from Facebook's battle with the Winklevoss twins, which was an important case involved in the movie, "The Social Network."

He also was general counsel for Facebook to a patent fight with Yahoo to investor disgruntlement around its initial public offering.

He built up the team from 10 when Facebook was a startup to more than 70 as a public company. In that time, Facebook has grown from 500 people to 5,000 and from 100 million to over one billion active users.

During his time with Facebook, he defeated the Winklevoss twins after their initial victory over Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. Ted Ullyot settled with Yahoo during that case.