About

Hacı Ömer Sabancı Holding, abbreviated as Sabancı Holding, is one of the largest industrial financial conglomerates in Turkey and holds control over 70 companies, in 15 countries, all recognised as market leaders in their respective sectors. Composed of the director of legal affairs, Ruba Unkan Ergener, and two senior lawyers, Gözde Erkoç and Sinem Bahadır; Sabancı Holding’s in-house legal department is a business orientated team of experienced lawyers, each experts in their own area of practice. The legal team is responsible for compliance, IP and litigation, and big ticket international and domestic M&A deals, joint ventures and IPOs. Sabancı Holding has multiple joint ventures with international partners and its affiliates operate in a wide array of sectors in Turkey and abroad. As a result of this diversity, the legal team’s work is always challenging, varied and international in scope. In the past year alone, the legal team has worked on transactions relating to energy, retail, automotive, insurance, hospitality and IT sectors in Turkey, Europe and North America. One of them being the successful IPO of Enerjisa Enerji. ‘The legal team works as an integral part of the business and provides invaluable expert advice to the project teams at Sabancı Holding and thrives to make each project a success’, says Ergener.