Established in 1946, Garanti Bank is an integrated financial services group and Turkey’s second largest private bank with consolidated assets of $95.7bn as of June 2017, approximately 14.5 million customers and more than 19,000 employees. The bank’s executive vice president for legal services, Aydın Düren, joined in February 2009 after a very successful 17 year private practice career. In addition to this role Düren is also the bank’s company secretary and a board member of Garanti Payment Systems, Teachers Academy Foundation, Garanti Mortgage and vice president of Garanti Bank Pension and Provident Fund Foundation. Known and well respected in Turkey’s in-house legal community, Düren is credited with having advanced skills in handling of banking law, corporate governance and M&A maters. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at Istanbul University in 1988.