Diversified Turkish business Çalık Holding has had the benefit of the wise counsel of Nilüfer Türkçü Hıra since November 2016, when she joined Lidya Madencilik, the mining subsidiary of Çalik Holding, bringing with her many years of experience at two of Turkey’s biggest law firms in Paksoy Law Firm, and the eleven years before that with the Birsel Law Firm. During her time in private practice she dispensed advice on the financing of projects in Turkey, secured loan transactions, M&As, restructurings within companies and corporate and commercial transactions in banking, insurance, energy, media and other sectors, all of which she describes as ‘very important’ to the Turkish economy. She states that her background ‘in the financing of acquisitions within the numerous sectors enabled me to make a valuable contribution to my in house career’, and she defines this as mainly focusing on standardisation of contacts in the legal department. She claims this ‘affected many departments within our company as well as the subsidiaries since many of them are obtaining legal advice from us. Furthermore, I focused on building up a strong legal team which assist the other departments in legal updates and trainings’. She is also recognised for her involvement on a huge amount of banking and finance, M&A, privatisations, transactions and litigations in recent years.