"After working 15 years in a top international law firm in Istanbul and assuming a variety of roles in the firm, Birtürk Aydın decided to make the leap to corporate life. As the principal legal counsel of Koc University, one of most prominent universities in Türkiye which employs more than a thousand employees and serves approximately 9,000 students in a year, Birtürk Aydın assumed a fast engagement with the university as the leader of the legal department. Birtürk and his team provide business and academic units with sound and commercial in-house legal advice and contribute to various projects involving public procurement, a variety of complex compliance matters, and new investments. To this end, Koc University as a public legal entity, Birturk spent considerable amount of time on public procurement tenders, other public procurement models and regulatory issues. Koc University also supports start-ups, so Birturk happily plays a role in the development of the start-up habitat of the country. "