AMEC general counsel Michael Blacker tells Alex Aldridge about life in the FTSE 100, walking the beat in Bath and 1980s Baghdad
“Everything goes back to reputation,” says Michael Blacker, general counsel of FTSE 100 project management and services company AMEC, while discussing the increased importance of compliance issues – to all companies, not just banks – in the post-Lehman world. “The old cliche is true: a good reputation is difficult to acquire and easy to lose. And one of the easiest ways to lose it is by breaking the law.”
