Turkey Teams 2016
| eBay
eBay
Group legal manager | Al Othman Holding
Director of tax, legal and operations | Dufil Nigeria
A quartet of lawyers led by Shoshana Shields, director of legal and general counsel for Australia and New Zealand, comprise the legal team for online marketplace eBay in the region....
| eBay
The Hong Kong-based legal team of eBay supports a diverse range of work covering not only the country of Hong Kong, but also greater China and throughout the wider Asia...
| eBay
The Italy based in-house legal team of American multinational e-commerce corporation eBay is part of the Central and Southern Europe legal team. This wider team covers all EU markets except...
| eBay International and eBay International Markets
The eBay legal team is divided into a number of different legal functions based in either the company’s Bern or Zurich offices, covering support for individual markets and also functional...
General counsel | Phase3 telecom
‘A guru in telecoms law’, Adebayo Azeez has rare insight into the regional market, having previously worked at Globacom and Mobitel. In just two years as general counsel, he has...
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 its most popular method of customer payment, necessitating a change in its business model and a wider scope for its legal team. ‘It is broader than before now. For instance, we are more into the government relations, intellectual property and litigation matters’, says Yilmaz. Despite Turkish buyers needing alternative payment methods to buy goods, which most eBay sellers simply do not offer, the legal department’s strategic contribution in this and other areas has, according to one source, ‘saved the parent company millions of dollars’. The team tackles the rapidly changing regulatory framework, as well as domestic and international political crises as it aligns to the company objective of expanding the business whilst managing risk.
