With a complex business set up in its Turkish subsidiary, US multinational conglomerate 3M is undergoing extensive change. The Turkish legal team, led by general counsel Halil Ibrahim Kardicali, has...

The Turkish operation of Zurich-based ABB, a global leader in power and automation technologies, has played a big part in the company’s international activities in recent years and has seen...

As one of Turkey’s leading private healthcare provider, Acıbadem Healthcare Group must negotiate intensive relationships with different types of public and private institutions. Led by group legal adviser Umur Yaşar,...

Covering the emerging markets in Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania, the legal team at adidas Turkey is led by Ugur Degirmenci who serves the German multinational sportswear manufacturer as legal and...

With almost 30% of the market share, Aksigorta is one of the biggest insurance companies in Turkey. In order to support its position in the market, the company employees a...

ALJ Holding has established an extensive operation which includes 10 subsidiaries across a range of sectors in Turkey. At the helm of a dynamic team of five in Turkey Group–...

Following the acquisition by Amgen of Turkish drug maker Mustafa Nevzat for $700 million in 2012, the merged entity began operating with Canan Arslan heading legal matters in Turkey since...

The Anadolu Group is a multinational and entrepreneurial group that has grown through partnerships with leading international brands including SABMiller, The Coca-Cola Company, McDonald’s, Kia, Lombardini and Honda. Cesur Kilinç,...

Following an ongoing tax dispute for the company in Ireland, Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek extended an open invitation for Apple to relocate its international operation to Turkey. While...

After AvivaSA Pension and Life Insurance’s initial public offering (IPO) in 2014, general counsel Kurtuluş Çaltekin restructured the legal function of five lawyers and two paralegals, establishing separate company secretarial,...

Avon operates in Turkey with an in-house team of three lawyers headed by Hande Karakülah, legal director for the Turkey, Africa and Middle East region. Karakülah is also a member...

Aygaz, the 10th largest industrial company in Turkey, performs all processes including sales and manufacturing of liquefied petroleum gas. Burcu Şener Sözer leads a team of five lawyers and one...

At the beginning of 2015 a new, global organisational structure of the legal function was implemented at BASF, the largest chemical producer in the world, in order to further increase...

Considering that BNP Paribas Cardif Türkiye, part of the international insurance company, operates in a highly regulated sector, the legal team plays an active role in all company projects, providing...

Borusan EnBW Enerji is a joint venture between Turkish industrial group Borusan and Germany’s third largest energy company EnBW. The company was created with the vision of being a leading...

British American Tobacco (BAT) has operated in the Turkish market since 2002 and is currently supported by an in-house legal team of nine staff, including four qualified lawyers. The tobacco...

Burgan Bank was created in Kuwait in 1977 and has been operating in the Turkish market since it acquired a 99.26% stake of Eurobank Tekfen in 2013. Since that time...

Food, agriculture, financial and industrial products and services conglomerate Cargill has been growing in the Middle East, Turkey and North Africa (METNA) region in recent years. During this time, the...

Led by head of legal, Tugce Karagozlu, the legal team at CarrefourSA, a Turkish joint venture between Europe’s largest retailer, Carrefour, and Turkey’s largest industrial and financial conglomerate, Sabancı Holding,...

A team of four lawyers and two support staff support the Turkish operations of CEVA Logistics, a UK-headquartered supply chain solutions company that serve national and multinational clients. The team...

Having over 200 million customer accounts and operating in more than 100 countries, Citibank is one of the leading global financial institutions in the world. It started doing business in...

Coca-Cola İçecek is The Coca-Cola Company’s Turkish bottling partner that bottles and distributes its beverages in Turkey, Pakistan, Central Asia and the Middle East. Rustu Ertuğrul Onur, general counsel and...

With revenues of around $3bn a year, Demirören Group is one of Turkey’s largest conglomerates, operating in a range of sectors but with a particular focus on energy, tourism, residential...

Doğan TV Holding is the largest broadcasting group in Turkey, operating several media companies and channels including one of Turkey’s leading mainstream entertainment channels, KANAL D and other popular channels...

Doğuş Group is one of the largest private-sector conglomerates in Turkey with a portfolio of around 300 companies across a number of sectors. Befitting a company of such strategic importance...

Asim Serdar Yilmaz heads the legal team at world famous internet auction site, eBay. When PayPal exited the Turkish market after it was refused a licence to operate, eBay lost...

Led by Simhan Savaşçın Başaran, Eczacıbaşı Group’s legal team is responsible for coordinating all high-level legal matters concerning companies across the group. In the past year the team has completed...

Efe Rakı began producing and selling Rakı, an unsweetened, anise-flavoured alcoholic drink that is popular in Turkey, Greece, Iran, Turkic and Balkan countries, after the abolishment of the Turkish government’s...

With a mission to create sustainable value for all of its stakeholders by being the lead provider of energy in the Turkish power market, Enerjisa is the resulting joint venture...

The Turkish legal team at French multinational power, natural gas and energy services company, ENGIE is led by general counsel, Berna Gungenci. The team is now made up of six...

With a workforce of over 23,000 across 70 subsidiaries and operating in six major geographical areas, ENKA is the largest construction company in Turkey. The legal team’s remit, priorities, challenges...

Erdemir is a Turkish steel producer which began production in 1965. It is among the largest steel producers worldwide, and the largest iron and steel company in Turkey. Since its...

Beginning its Turkish operations in 2009, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), an international financial institution, has completed more than 185 deals across the whole debt and equity...

Since June 2014, Ruşen Gürlük Yarpınar has headed the legal team at EWE Turkey Holding, the Turkish arm of German EWEW AG and the first and largest international investor in...

Kerem Morali, chief legal counsel, leads the legal team of six lawyers and one non-lawyer at Fiba Group, an investment company with a portfolio of high-value brand names in both...

Finansbank is the high-performing Turkish bank established by leading Turkish banker Hüsnü Özyeğin in 1987. For a period, it was the Turkish bank with the largest network of foreign branches,...

A joint venture between US automobile maker Ford and Turkish industrial conglomerate Koç, Ford Otosan has been established in Turkey since 1977. Since 2007 Ahmet Serdar Kayhan has served as...

Bora Kaya, managing legal counsel, leads the legal team at GAMA Power Systems, the strategic business unit of GAMA Holding that undertakes power plant engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts....

Garanti Payment Systems, the card payment systems unit of the second largest private bank in Turkey, has a legal team of eight to support its innovative products and services. The...

For over 60 years, American multinational conglomerate General Electric (GE) has operated in Turkey through its subsidiary General Electric Türkiye. With activities in a number of sectors including aviation, healthcare,...

In the past two years the legal team at pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has undergone major structural changes, enhancing of its regional responsibilities. Leading the legal team’s operation as cluster...

Founded in 2005, Google Türkiye’s line of business includes soliciting advertising on a contract or fee basis for newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, or for other media platforms. As...

Salim Köse currently leads the legal team as deputy general manager in charge of legal affairs and proceedings at Halkbank, Turkey’s largest state-owned bank. The bank has been active in...

As general counsel, Ozgur Colpan leads the legal team of five at the Turkish arm of multinational consumer and industrial goods company Henkel. After defining external law firm policies and...

Established in 1994 as a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Company of South Korea and Kibar Holding of Turkey, Hyundai Assan is one of the leading car manufacturers in Turkey....

Ibrahim Chechen Investment Holding Co. (IC Holding) is an investment management company that carries out its business activities mainly in construction, energy generation and distribution, tourism, industry, and infrastructure through...

Producing over 3 million tonnes of steel a year, İçdaş is one of the world’s biggest steel producers. While demand for the commodity has fallen in recent months, İçdaş has...

Chief Legal Counsel Çiğdem Dayan leads the 26-strong legal team at the Turkish subsidiary of ING, a Dutch multinational banking and financial services corporation focused primarily on consultancy and litigation...

Established in 1924 by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Turkish Republic, İş Bankası is today the largest private bank in Turkey with over 25,000 employees and around 1,400 local...

Legal affairs director Özlem Akyüz Atamer leads a legal team of five at Kale Holding, a conglomerate that initially pioneered the ceramics industry in Turkey but now invests in machinery...

Founded in 1948, Karadeniz Holding operates in more than a dozen countries, with its primary activities focused on the energy sector.  As the world’s only owner and operator of a...

At Koç Holding, Turkey’s largest industrial and services group in terms of revenues, exports, number of employees and shares on Borsa İstanbul, the in-house legal team of 16 is led...

As an iron and steel producer with a wide international trade network in Turkey and the Balkans, Kurum Holding has been facing tough competition from the aggressive expansion of the...

The legal team at LG Turkey, a subsidiary of the multinational electronics company, operate with autonomy from their headquarters. As the Turkish company is considered to be the leading subsidiary...

The legal function at The Limak Group of Companies, a Turkish conglomerate with major interests in construction, energy, cement, and tourism, was only established in 2013 when senior legal counsel...

The Turkish legal team for global fast food chain McDonald’s is led by legal manager Leylan Demirag Aktas. Despite the company deciding to close many of its restaurants in Turkey...

Recognised by one nominator as a team that has ‘delivered great performances over the years, especially [in the context of Turkey’s] retail sector’, the legal team at the Turkish arm...

The legal team of Mercedes-Benz Türk is composed of five lawyers and five non-lawyers, led by Gamze Gökçen Karasu Pilevne, whose current role is corporate secretary, chief legal counsel and...

Wine and spirit maker Mey İçki was established in 2004 following the privatisation of Tekel’s alcoholic drinks division. Led by general counsel and company secretary Meltem Azbazda, the company’s legal...

Chief Legal Counsel Duygu Kırca leads the Turkish legal department of US-headquartered multinational confectionery, food, and beverage company, Mondelēz International. To allow lawyers at Mondelēz to serve business units better...

Multi Development Corporation is a leading owner, manager and developer of shopping centres across Europe. Its Turkish branch, Multi Development Türkiye, runs shopping centres that cover 925,000 square metres of...

The legal affairs and compliance department of N11.com, an online shopping platform owned by Doğuş Group and South Korean-based SK Planet, consists of five people and is headed by Dilek...

Since the previous general counsel was transferred to Nestlé headquarters in Switzerland in 2015, the legal team of the transnational Nutrition, Health and Wellness company’s Turkish branch has been headed...

Consisting of nine people, the legal team at the Turkish subsidiary of Danish multinational pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk has doubled in number in the past two years to meet increased...

Only incorporated in 2012, Odeabank has had a meteoric rise and is now ranked eighth amongst the private banks in Turkey in terms of deposit size and ninth in terms...

With sales of TRY 25bn ($8.4bn) in 2013, OMV Petrol Ofisi is the second largest private company in Turkey and is the country’s leading fuel products distribution and lubricants company....

To maintain Pfizer’s reputation as one of the world’s premier biopharmaceutical companies, the company’s legal teams work tirelessly in the background, providing excellent project management and supreme commercial awareness to...

Since its inception in 1994 as a joint venture between US cigarette company Philip Morris International and Turkish conglomerate Sabancı Holding, Philip Morris Sabanci (PMS) has gone on to establish...

Established in 1992, Porland Porselen is now a leading Turkish porcelain manufacturer. Legal affairs manager Tuna Yasin Doyuk spearheads the legal team which she built in 2014. The team participates...

Procter & Gamble (P&G) is the Turkish arm of the American multinational consumer goods company, whose efficient legal team of five is led by Ozge Ayoz, legal and government relations...

Established in Turkey since 1958, Roche is a Swiss multinational pharmaceutical and diagnostics company focused on advancing science to improve people’s lives. Legal and compliance director Gonca Uyguç leads the...

Rönesans Gayrimenkul Yatırım (RGY) is a commercial real estate development and investment company, and part of the Rönesans Group. Head of legal, Eda Arıcıoğlu, spearheads the recently expanded legal team...

The legal department at Sabancı Holding, the largest industrial and financial conglomerate in Turkey by profit, is a business-oriented, dynamic, dedicated and solid team composed of four experienced lawyers, each...

South Korean multinational electronics company Samsung has been one of the more visible actors in the Turkish market in recent years. In 2016 it secured €100m in funding from the...

Founded in 2002 by the Kuwait-based Alshaya Group as an investment in the Turkish retail market, Shaya represents a portfolio of the world’s best known international brands in Turkey, managing...

The legal team of four lawyers and one paralegal support the operation of Shell & Turcas Petrol, a joint venture between the Shell Company of Turkey, the Turkish subsidiary of...

Led by general counsel Mehmet Celal Savaş, the Turkish legal team of eight at Siemens, Europe’s largest engineering company, creates value as ‘a real business partner’. As Savaş is part...

Sofra Grup became part of the Compass Group, its former joint venture partner in Turkey, after Compass Group bought out the remaining shares in 2011. Led by general counsel Ozgur...

The Turkish legal team at Norwegian-based Statkraft, a leading international provider of hydropower and Europe’s largest generator of renewable energy, is recognised for its commitment to delivering world-class regional support...

TAV Airports Holding was established in 1997 as a joint venture of Tepe, Akfen and Airport Consulting Vienna and won a tender for the İstanbul Ataturk Airport International Terminal in...

The legal team at supermarket chain Tesco Kipa can boast efficiency credentials after having to downsize as part of a redundancy plan that affected 3,000 staff in the company. The...

Covering Turkey and the Caucasus and Central Asia regions (TCCA), the regional legal team at global beverage producer Coca-Cola has remained a strategic business partner that provides high quality, timely...

Established in 2009 as a joint venture by Türk Hava Yolları and OPET Petrolcülük, THY OPET operates in the field of fuel storage and refuelling of aircrafts and ranks as...

Owned by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Koç Holding, Tofaş Türk manufactures both passenger cars and light commercial vehicles. The company has had to fundamentally change the way it conducts its...

Possibly the largest project for the legal team at Total Oil Türkiye, the Turkish subsidiary of the world’s fifth largest oil company Total, was the sale of shares in April...

Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) is a major natural gas pipeline project worth $11bn. The pipeline has been given high importance politically by Turkey, Azerbaijan and European countries that the...

The legal team at Tüpraş, Turkey’s largest industrial enterprise, is among the most respected in the country and has consistently performed to the highest standards in spite of tough market...

Türk Hava Yolları (Turkish Airlines) is the national flag carrier airline of Turkey, headquartered at Atatürk Airport in Yeşilköy Bakırköy, Istanbul. Led by head legal counsel Ali Uysal, the legal...

Founded in 1839, Türk Telekom is an established institution in Turkey that offers a complete range of mobile, fixed voice, broadband and TV services. The legal team, led by chief...

Leading Turkish mobile operating network Turkcell has nearly 70 million mobile subscribers in nine countries, with around 1.5 million in Turkey. The legal team, led by executive vice president for...

Türkmen Holding is a group of diversified companies covering textiles, logistics, foreign trade, technology, aviation, marine and yachting. As part of a drive to focus on growing in-house resource, general...

Covering a wide spectrum of work from M&A “white space” to digital advertising, business integrity agenda to competition law, the legal function at Unilever is ‘at the heart of the...

Yandex, initially founded in Russia, was established in Turkey in 2012 as an online advertising company, and has now expanded to be one of the top five search engines in...

Yapı Kredi operates with an in-house legal department of 118 lawyers and 56 non-lawyers reporting to Cemal Aybars Sanal, the bank’s deputy CEO for legal affairs. Due to its size,...

Since 1963, Yıldırım Group has evolved into an industrially diversified group of companies as well as one of the fastest-growing Turkish industrial groups. Its legal director, Iltem Dokurlar, leads the...

Leading Turkish food and beverages conglomerate Yıldız Holding has been operating in Turkey for the past 70 years. Global legal affairs president Ibrahim Flood spearheads a legal department which handles...

The legal function at market leading Turkish manufacturer and distributor of high quality dairy products Yörsan was established in 1964 and was acquired by Abraaj Group in 2014. Led by...

A US Fortune 500 company that owns globally recognised restaurants such as Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Taco Bell, Yum! Brands operates 123 stores in Turkey under its Turkish...

One of Turkey’s largest corporate groups, Zorlu Holding employs over 26,000 employees across a portfolio of over 60 companies operating in a range of sectors, from textiles to electrical goods....