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Middle East 2017

Lois Allela

Head of legal Europe, Middle East and East Africa | Aggreko

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head of legal: Europe, Middle East, East Africa | Aggreko, United Arab Emirates

For Lois Allela, her ‘strategic contribution and visibility at board level’ are areas which have been particularly important to her throughout a high-powered in-house career. Supporting European, Middle Eastern and...

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Lois Allela’s career path has been, in her own words, ‘interesting’, and undoubtedly set her up incredibly well for her current position as head of legal for Europe, Middle East and East Africa for global interim power solutions provider. ‘My background is in energy law and policy’, she outlines, ‘and prior to this I was in private practice up to court of appeal level as a commercial litigator before I specialised in the oil sector’. From here, she had a stint in the telecoms industry before moving back into the energy sector with Aggreko. Here, she has a very broad brief and deals heavily with Africa alongside her GCC responsibilities, taking advantage of her immense experience of the region gleaned throughout her prior career. Allela has worked on some particularly high-profile projects for Aggreko during her time. ‘We undertake a lot of projects on the events side’, she explains, ‘and doing the Olympics and Winter Olympics was very interesting from a bidding perspective. We just provided on-site power services for the Rio summer and Baku Winter Olympics’, she adds. Allela has improved and enlarged the legal team to a significant extent since joining Aggreko, as she describes: ‘I began with a very small group, and through much hard work and research was able to source and recruit competencies across Eurasia, Russia and the Middle East’ to provide the team with the expertise needed to fulfil their broad responsibilities. ‘It is important that when you are in-house, you have to address your mind towards the business in general, rather than being focused on purely legal work’, Aggreko advises. When putting together her team, these were the qualities that she sought above all others.

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