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Central and Eastern Europe 2017

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Attila Bocsak

Head of legal | Turk Telekom International

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Attila Bocsak

Head of legal | Turk Telekom International

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Attila Bocsak oversees the legal and compliance functions of the entire CEE operation of Türk Telekom International (TTI), one of the leading regional telecommunications operators consisting of 14 companies and an annual turnover of over €120m. After championing the importance of the legal function internally, Bocsak increased the headcount of the legal department with individual lawyers now working in Hungary, Austria, Turkey and Romania. ‘I also put special emphasis on making the management of TTI aware of important EU regulations that affect the everyday operations of the company’, Bocsak adds. ‘We constantly provide updates on the key legal issues to the management sometimes in the form of presentations, sometimes by providing written summaries’. In 2016, Bocsak made his mark on Turk Telekom by initiating a group wide project on the review and revision of the international data transfers amonst the group’s entities. ‘Although this project was partly influenced by the new rules of the GDPR, it was a project for which I was lobbing for years already’, he explains. ‘As Turkey has much less stringent data protection rules than the EU, it was not an easy process to convince the Turkish upper management of the importance of the project. The new rules and much higher fines of the GDPR reinforced the correctness of my approach on this issue’. A year earlier, Bocsak and his team had to understand, evaluate and assess a highly complex contractual package related to the construction and the operation of a 20,000 km long cable from Marseille to Singapore. The project was a particularly useful experience for Bocsak, as it was ‘interesting to see that a fairly small legal team is capable of being a partner of legal teams of much bigger companies, which, in some cases, have specialised teams focusing exclusively on cable projects’. Bocsak started his career at Clifford Chance in 1999 later moving to Salans (now Dentons) and serving as senior associate between 2007 and 2011.

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