About

Burcu Şener Sözer is the head of legal at Aygaz, Turkey’s seventh largest industrial organisation. She joined Aygaz in 2011, after 13 years in private practice at several top Turkish law firms. When she first started at Aygaz, the legal department mainly dealt with litigation issues. With the support of the management, she adopted a more comprehensive approach, encouraging the team to become more involved in all legal aspects of the company’s business. Şener Sözer introduced an online intranet that provides legal assistance to all users of the company, which has enabled the legal team to keep track of all documents and report them to the management effectively. Throughout her in-house career she has been involved in a number of business development projects. ‘The greatest achievement was when I successfully closed and managed the transfer of Total Turkey’s bottled LPG business to Aygaz’, she says. For Şener Sözer the most appealing features of her role are the positive working environment and the complexity of legal issues that continue to create positive challenges.