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Heading a 15-strong team, David O’Sullivan has distinguished himself with his transformation of the legal function into a ‘top-performing department’ and ‘partner to the business’. He has led on a number significant transactions at Qatar’s leading national institution and has played a key role in its expansion into new regions, with Africa and South East Asia as recent examples. O’Sullivan is energised by the ‘fast pace of deals, variety of deals, fast pace of decision-making and variety of jurisdictions’. Outside counsel could sometimes do more to keep up with this ‘pace’, he says. He also suggests they could sometimes work more effectively with their overseas offices in cross-border transactions.