About

Alexandre Fathay has amassed almost 20 years of in-house experience in senior positions. Originally from France, Fathay’s in-house journey began at France Telecom where he served as corporate counsel in Paris for five years from 1999 to 2004. He was then recruited by Compass Group, the UK-headquartered leading food and support services company, to be their general counsel for Central Asia, Middle East and Africa. During his time at Compass Group, Fathay earned a reputation of being highly skilled in handling matters concerning corporate law, joint ventures, intellectual property and dispute resolution among others. Because of his skills, in 2009 Fathay was hired by ENOC, a leading integrated global oil and gas player which earned over $14bn in 2015 and is wholly owned by the government of Dubai. As ENOC’s general counsel since 2009, Fathay has been involved in a number of significant transactions for the company. In 2015 he was worked on the landmark acquisition worth £3.7bn of a 46% non-controlling interest in Dragon Oil as well as the purchase of a lube blending facility in Jebel Ali for ENOC Lubricants & Greases Manufacturing Plant (ELOMP). The following year ENOC announced a $1bn expansion project for its Jebel Ali Refinery and Fathay has been involved in a number of activities related to the investment such as the awarding a contract to Rotary Engineering of Fujairah to build the twelve storage tanks to help the company increase its refinery capacity by 50% to accommodate Dubai’s growing population and energy demands. Fathay obtained his Master of Laws from the University of Dijon in France in 1994.