GIC wins ‘Innovative In-house Team of the Year’ award

The Brief Middle East Law Awards 2012 recognise the excellence and outstanding achievements of the region’s leading law firms and in-house legal teams as well as the top deals and dealmakers. Months of intensive research and voting by an external panel of unbiased judges precede the announcement of finalists and winners.

The Gulf Investment Corporation was nominated in two categories, and won the Innovative In-House Team of the Year award. This award category recognises the achieve- ments of a corporate in-house team that has created or implemented novel compliance/training programmes or other systems/structures that assist the legal department in reaching its objectives.

GIC’s Head of Communication & PR, Qais Al-Shatti, said: “We are delighted to learn of this award. Innovation is at the heart of every successful, ambitious business. It requires a culture in which every employee is constantly striving to find new, better, and more efficient ways of doing things.”

Al-Shatti added: “We are proud of every single person at GIC because this award for Innovative In-House Team of the Year is shared by all of them. It is an award that celebrates the team, not the individual. GIC has some very talented Group and Division Heads; and it is the hard work and dedication of those dealmakers and their teams that brings to GIC the sort of high quality transactions, without which this award would simply not have been possible.”