About

Founded in 1964, Yörsan is Turkey’s leading diary company supplying high quality food products to over 20 countries around the world. Buse Pinar Kaçar joined the company as Chief legal and corporate affairs officer in 2014, shortly after the Abraaj Group acquired a majority stake in Yörsan Group. Upon joining the company, Kaçar immediately began working on a re-structuring project involving the merger of four companies and created the legal department from scratch. Other features of her time in the role include assisting the company on complicated and successful capital increase and decrease processes, establishing the company’s first comprehensive compliance and ethics program and leading negotiations on a three year union agreement. Having achieved these activities in just over three years, it is easy to see why Kaçar was highlighted by nominators as an excellent in-house lawyer. Before Yörsan, Kaçar enjoyed senior legal positions at Ströer Kentvizyon, NN Hayat Emeklilik, GlaxoSmithKline in UK and Carrefour. Her first in-house legal role was at the international apparel and accessories brand Mavi Jeans between 2007 and 2008.