Having moved up through the ranks of Karadeniz Holding company in a variety of in-house legal positions, legal director Nazli Dereli Oba has been a fixture at the energy giant for several years. The remit of the legal director role at the global company whose main business line is in the energy sector is concerned with not only legal affairs – contracts, corporate, transactions, licencing agreements – but with ensuring top class management is dispensed to the myriad of in-house lawyers at the company. Oba started at Karadeniz Holding in 2012. After obtaining a background in law firms, Oba was a legal consultant at financial giant Citibank for one year before moving to the energy industry as the head of legal for Enerjisa Enerji Uretim in 2012.