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During his 17 years of experience within Çimentas Group, Kayhan Karabayır has taken wide-reaching initiatives to increase the proactivity and productivity of the legal department. ‘I developed the information channels in order to get informed well before the legal issues arise. I improved the skills of my colleagues in terms of knowledge of the company operations. We organised our department and work partitions based on business units not based on legal matters. By doing so, each colleague had the chance to gain deep knowledge about the business and operations of the relevant business unit that they are responsible for’. These changes have made the legal department a crucial part of the operations. He additionally set key performance indicators in the department, which required that his colleagues present at least two alternative solutions for any issue they are handling. ‘In summary, I brought the legal department into a position of being more operational rather than being only a supportive function’ he comments. The changes that Karabayır has spearheaded as legal affairs director have led to him gaining a position on the executive committee. He considers this increase of responsibility as one of the biggest achievements of his in-house career.