Trevor Faure took over as Europe, Middle East and Africa (Emea) general counsel of Tyco International just as the engineering conglomerate was emerging from an accounting scandal that threatened to sink it. Together with a crack legal team in the US, Faure has set about transforming the business with some gusto. He inherited a team that was spread across the globe and haemorrhaging money to outside counsel.

Since his arrival he has recruited a senior legal team and put in place a structure that will carry the conglomerate through a transformative restructuring that will see it split into three multibillion-dollar companies.

Faure has negotiated a groundbreaking $10m (£5.09m) flat-fee arrangement with Eversheds. This apes the DuPont model, but builds on it - to such an extent that one lawyer was moved to exclaim how envious he was - and he works at DuPont.