STG Partners

Burcu is a trusted advisor to Turkish conglomerates, multinational corporations and international investors on high‑stakes compliance, internal investigations, regulatory matters and strategic M&A and transactions. She combines the breadth of a corporate and M&A lawyer with the depth of a financial crime, technology and compliance specialist, built over years of advising on complex cross‑border business and capital markets matters.

Burcu is widely recognised for anticipating strategic and enforcement risk early and for designing pragmatic mitigation strategies that integrate seamlessly with business objectives, deal dynamics and crisis situations. Her practice spans anti‑corruption and bribery, fraud and corporate crime, AML/CFT, sanctions and export controls, as well as corporate governance, data privacy and cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, employee misconduct and board‑level investigations. She regularly leads deal‑driven risk assessments, due diligence and remediation planning on domestic and cross‑border M&A, joint ventures and strategic investments, particularly in regulated and technology‑driven sectors.

Burcu is consistently ranked by leading directories, including recognition by The Legal 500 as a Leading Individual in Compliance, Corporate/Commercial and M&A and IT & Telecoms in Türkiye, and by Lexology for investigations and data work

MACS – Master in Anti-Corruption Studies (Ongoing), International Anti-Corruption Academyi IACA (Pending) LL.M., Business Law, Istanbul Bilgi University LL.B., Law, Ankara University