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Middle East Teams 2016

Oman Oil Company Exploration & Production (OOCEP)

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The legal team at Oman Oil Company Exploration & Production has taken the initiative to make a range of efficiency improvements in the past few years, improving internal processes and increasing interaction with other business units, especially the management element of the business. In short, the legal team has been brought ‘much closer’ to the business as a whole. The general counsel now sits on the executive management team and reports directly to the managing director, improving lines of communication and the strategic partnership between these parts of the business. Indeed, all members of the legal team now interact with senior management across the business, ensuring that a legal perspective is available for all business units of the company. In terms of internal process improvements, a culture ‘far more robust in ensuring legal risks are identified in advance and mitigated’ has been developed in the legal department, strengthening the legal team’s competence in this regard. These and other improvements mean that the legal team is now ‘central to transactional strategy, delivery and negotiation, dispute resolution and ethical conduct’ at OOCEP, and a valued business partner. Richard McLaughlin, general counsel, leads the legal department at OOCEP. McLaughlin points to the adverse business environment faced by oil companies as an opportunity to tighten up processes and thus produce more ‘focused, pragmatic advice’. The principal objective of the legal department at OOCEP, that of ‘changing the perception of the legal team from a reactive service provider to a proactive and real business partner’, is an ongoing process, McLaughlin says. With the material assets and growth rate that OOCEP possesses, however, the company and its legal team can look forward to a prosperous future.

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