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Turkey 2017

Information technology

Emel Nakay

Country legal lead | Accenture Turkey

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Emel Nakay

Country legal lead | Accenture Turkey

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A firm believer in collaboration and partnership when managing in-house legal teams, Emel Nakay has had transformative impact on both Turkcell and Accenture Turkey in her in-house legal career. ‘In each role I first analysed whether we are following the right approach in positioning legal department in the company,’ she explains. ‘As building strong relationships with non-legal teams brings the trust and team spirit accordingly I always encouraged my teams to collaborate more, position legal department not as a show-stopper function but instead as a protective business partner’. Utilising this method over the last seven years at Accenture, Nakay has successfully forged a highly competent legal function, which seamlessly handles transactions related to information technology, strategy, digital, technology consulting and outsourcing. Over the last three years, Nakay stood out for her work on two complex multinational cases. Nakay successfully helped tackle multiple significant regulatory changes during the negotiations, which required swift analysis and response. ‘After closing both deals successfully, we extracted and analysed important lessons, to leverage the learned experience to new coming challenges in future’. Nakay previously served at Turkcell, the leading mobile operator in Turkey, initially as a senior legal counsel and then as legal head. Highlights from the latter role include provision of legal support to the company’s 3G tender in Turkey with a deal value of $500m and an international M&A projects with deal values ranged between $10m and $150m. Nakay started her professional career at Arthur Andersen’s legal department in 2001.

 

 

 

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