About

Eda Okay Riehl was nominated during this year’s research for her outstanding support with regards to many legal issues, and she can also point to an accomplished career background that further boosts her credentials. She spent five years at Turkish law firm Mehmet Gün & Partners within its corporate and dispute resolutions departments dealing with complex projects. Her first in-house role was as legal counsel at Media-Saturn Turkey. There, just after two years she was appointed to head of legal affairs and compliance officer, then to general counsel. Afterwards, she held the position of regional compliance director for T-MEA-CIS region at B/S/H/ Turkey. Now responsible for compliance in META region (GCC, Turkey, and Africa) at IT product distributor Ingram Micro and part of its management team, Okay Riehl has established herself well, and has a huge amount of past career experiences to inform her current approach. Among other regulatory compliance topics, trade compliance and export controls is also in the focus of her current assignment. She goes into some of her past successes: ‘At BSH Turkey, I managed the regional compliance department, was responsible for a heterogeneous region called T-MEA-CIS covering many different jurisdictions, focused on regulatory compliance. This provided me the opportunity to improve my intercultural management skills. At Media Markt, I established the legal affairs department from scratch based on a pro-active approach and set up legal processes within the entire company assisting the rapidly growing business. I also successfully handled all investigations and lawsuits initiated by authorities and third parties after the market entry of Media Markt thanks to the profound expertise that I gained at Mehmet Gün & Partners’. These and other triumphs during Okay Riehl’s career mark her out as an excellent in-house counsel, and someone who looks set to achieve even more in the years to come.