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For Nazli Dereli Oba, legal coordinator at Karadeniz Holding, the creation of the legal department in the company has been the greatest achievement of her in-house career. In 2012, when she started in Karadeniz Holding, there was no legal department and the first challenge she faced was finding the right lawyers. Her goal was to slowly create a central legal department that would provide high-quality legal services to the group as a whole. Initially she recruited one lawyer to follow up on Turkish law matters and another for international business transactions of the company, gradually increasing the number of in-house counsel as the business expanded. ‘Three years ago, we had one single lawyer, today, not only do we have a legal department of five lawyers, but also more than 200 lawyers that we work with around the world. As the general counsel, it is my responsibility to ensure that we find the right legal partners in each jurisdiction that we go to and to create a team of lawyers that have the best interests of this growing company’. A high profile lawyer, Dereli Oba was a panel speaker at Boden Law’s Conference on Dispute Avoidance and Investment Protection in the Energy Sector.