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During his four-year tenure at Orpic, Oman’s national refining and petrochemical company, Lorenzo Bruttomesso has built, developed and expanded the legal and compliance function from the ground up, enabling the unit to keep pace with Orpic’s growth. As a result of this achievement, Bruttomesso has received wide praise internally: ‘Towards the end of last year, I sent a survey to Orpic’s business and technical functions and I was pleased with the manner in and response from Orpic. The legal and compliance team were acknowledged as adding value to the operations of Orpic, being professional in its approach, attaining the required level of standard of quality in the work produced and achieving the level of response times required for an evolving and growing organisation.’ While impressing with his organisational skills, Bruttomesso’s transactional expertise has also been highly notable. During the last five years, he has played an instrumental role in supporting important corporate project for Orpic, such as Sohar Refinery Improvement Project (SRIP), Muscat Sohar Product Pipeline Project (MSPP), the Liwa Plastics Integrated Complex Project (LPIC) and their corresponding project financing. His negotiations on the SRIP EPC contract were particularly challenging. ‘It was an intense affair and concluded after long hours of discussion in the early hours of a Friday morning’, Bruttomesso says. ‘The negotiation of the concomitant finance document was just as intense, and concluded after weeks of long hours of discussions with multiple ECAs and a club of lenders. These negotiations represent a concrete example of hard work, persistence and team effort – with the assistance of professional external financial and legal advisors – that are the recipe for a successful transaction for Orpic. The MSPP and LPIC transactions that followed were clones of this successful recipe and equally successful.’