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‘Marta Almeida Afonso has significant experience in handling innovative and complex matters in different jurisdictions, despite her young age’ one source says. ‘She succeeds in motivating the teams in stressful environments and manages projects with business knowledge not common in all legal advisors. She is very deal driven and able to relate very easily with her legal advisors and counterparties’ according to one source. Heading the legal department of REN, the Portuguese energy company, which is the current holder of the country’s two main energy infrastructure networks, Marta Almeida Afonso leads a strong team of 10. Since June 2015, when she assumed her current role, she has led many changes in the legal department. ‘REN had a very traditional legal department and there were two directors whom I replaced; one director that was assisting the board of directors and the executive committee and another director with a pure legal role. There was a merger of two departments and I assumed both responsibilities’. Under her dual role and presence in the executive committee, she can better influence business goals and she sees her advice having a bigger impact.