Over the course of his seven year professional legal career, Seçkin Cemiloğlu has been exposed to handling a wide range of legal matters at both multinational and local companies. He is currently the group legal manager at the Turkish branch of ALD Automotive, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the French Société Générale Group and Europe’s leading operational leasing and fleet management company with 5,000 employees in 41 countries and a worldwide vehicle fleet of 1.3 million. In addition to representing the company before judicial and arbitral bodies, Cemiloğlu plays an important in drafting, reviewing and negotiating various kinds of commercial contracts and working with the CEO to guide the company from a legal perspective. ‘We always talk about recent legal processes and legislations that can affect our business and he is always keen too look at the business from a legal perspective’, he says. Further demonstrating his prowess in counselling the company on major developments, Cemiloğlu worked on ALD International’s IPO in 2017. Internally he has shifted perceptions of the legal department, simultaneously reducing the business’ reliance on external counsel. Before joining ALD Automotive in June 2016, Cemiloğlu had a brief spell as legal counsel at ECE Türkiye and a three year stint at Arçelik, a major durable consumer goods company and part of the Koç Holding conglomerate. A feature of his time as legal counsel at Arçelik between 2012 and 2015 was significantly reducing the amount of labour law cases, by influencing the HR team to pursue mutual agreements instead of arbitrations. Before moving in-house, Cemiloğlu worked at law firms Hemşinlioğlu and Eldem Law Office in Istanbul. He graduated in 2009 from Marmara University.