What has been the number one challenge that has impacted you over the past year?

The challenge of the year for us was change; we had to adapt to rapidly changing financial and political environments across the globe. To do so, we adopted agile principles to efficiently respond to such fast paced environments. This challenge emphasised the importance of utilising technology and encouraging collaboration between business units to produce high quality output in a fast-paced setting.

In your opinion, what areas should in-house lawyers focus on over the next few years to prove value to their organisations in Türkiye?

In-house lawyers must be able to understand and speak the language of the business fluently; it is not enough to possess legal knowledge only. This is key to becoming an efficient business partner in the organisation.

Could you share an example of a time when you came up with an innovation that improved how your legal team works and did not come at a large expense?

Innovation does not have to be of grand proportions; sometimes even stopping to produce a shadow filing system in this digital age can help to save time and reduce the weight of workloads on departments.