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‘One of my proudest achievements is seeing the legal department I first inherited totally transformed, and the new team developing and working well together’. In less than two years as Al Faisal’s legal head, Maha Harper has overhauled the entire function, implementing brand new systems, and devising corporate governance and compliance guidelines. ‘It took a full 12 months to really see improvement’, Harper says. ‘A further 11 months later, I am proud and pleased to see a real shift in not only the department’s work product, but in its professionalism and reputation’. Beyond the function’s internal workings, sources particularly highlight Harper’s handling of high value cross-border transactions. ‘I am proud to lead our newly re-vamped legal department as our company diversifies both cross-border and over an ever-widening range of sectors’, she says. On the subject of outside counsel she has two suggestions for improvement: ‘Responding more quickly, and answering more succinctly!’