About

With over a decade’s tenure with international pharmaceutical giant Pfizer’s Turkish operation, Işık Soydan is an in-house legal expert in the healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors. However, she has previously proven her mettle in other industries, with a highly creditable in-house career in the food and beverage industry with such names as McDonald’s, Kraft Foods and Efes Beer Group. Soydan promotes a highly collaborative approach within her team and looks to empower them to make decisions while also remaining highly approachable herself. This, combined with her technical skills and conscientiousness in regards to her workload mark her out as a highly respected and well-known in-house lawyer. Among other major projects, Soydan has overseen the legal support of efforts to localise the production of the company’s Prevnar vaccine, a highly complex operation given the regulated nature of the industry.