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Now in charge of an 18-person in-house legal team at major Czech oil company Unipetrol, general counsel Martin Letko cooperates closely with other elements of the company’s operations, as well as those of its majority shareholder, the Polish-based PKN ORLEN Group. Letko has spearheaded a successful internal restructuring of the Unipetrol legal team whilst at the company, both through the creation of new structures and sub-teams and by redistributing responsibilities among team members. Efficiency improvements related to this has allowed the team to take on a greater proportion of the overall legal work, meaning that less is spent on external counsel – a highly important undertaking that Letko has enabled in the six years he has been with Unipetrol. Letko has also been involved in a number of important deals during his tenure at the company, during which he acts as a representative of the company in business dealings regularly. One such major project of particular note involved the takeover of minority shareholdings in a joint venture that Unipetrol had with ENI and Shell in order to operated two refineries in the Czech Republic. This highly complex operation was completed successfully, providing a particular career highlight for Letko, and he is surely destined to add even more memorable moments to his in-house resume over the coming months and years.