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With continuing activities of the Turkish construction company IC Holding at home and an increasing number of projects and transactions throughout the world, chief legal counsel Zihni Gönen is managing a team of 50 employees that report directly to him. He upgraded the role of the legal department by introducing new organisation and new working methodologies, creating a full-scale legal team dealing with the eight different sectors that the group companies operate in. He has acted as chief negotiator for multibillion Euro Engineering, Procurement and Construction and Finance Contracts in various jurisdictions and as chief lawyer for multimillion USD Arbitration cases. The biggest challenge of his in-house career was when he acted as the sole negotiator for one of the biggest infrastructure projects in the country. He considers business-mindedness the most important asset for outside counsel, as that enables them to better serve commercial objectives.