Begüm Ertürk

Sabancı Holding
Legal Manager, Legal and Compliance Department

Begüm is a lawyer registered in the Istanbul Bar Association since 2011 and trademark attorney registered in Turkish Patent and Trademark Office since 2013, with over 12 years of professional experience and solid national and international law background in particularly IP/IT Law (blockchain, IoT, M2M, AI etc.), data protection and cyber security law, competition law, e-commerce law, corporate law and M&A. Begüm is experienced of providing services on strategy and public policies; working with the leading American, European, Canadian and Asian companies, cooperating with the World’s top legal firms, providing training courses, leading IP/IT and Data Privacy focused gap analysis, business modelling & design, full scope compliance projects for local and multinational companies performing in various sectors.  Begüm worked as a research assistant at Cyprus International University, Faculty of Law, Commercial Law Department, as a lawyer in local and international law firms in Belgium, Russia, Turkey, and now works as a legal manager at Sabancı Holding. Begüm holds a Master of Law (LLM) from Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) University on the topic of International, European and French Business Law, and continues to her PhD. thesis on competition law at Istanbul Kultur University.