Bruce McAlister, GE Global Growth Organization

I’ve been with GE just over 20 years. In that time, 14 have been in the UK and now over five have been in the Middle East.

I think the challenge of being able to operate here from a multinational corporation is with distance from headquarters; as soon you have distance from headquarters, it slows down the ability to react, while at the same time your commercial deals progress quicker. You want fully empowered, competent, experienced legal counsel being able to do some of your deals. The size of the deal, in this region, especially the type of infrastructure projects that we get involved with (which are in the health, power, aviation, and removal sectors) are large. They can run from hundreds of millions to billions of dollars.