About

Previously a private practice lawyer with Topaloğlu and an in-house counsel for Garanti Bankası, Özge Sanioğlu moved to Deutsche Bank in 2012, and received a quick promotion to vice president and legal counsel within a year; this achievement is emblematic of the level of performance she has accomplished throughout her time at Deutsche Bank. Sanioğlu explains that she has ‘considerable experience in banking and finance law, capital markets law and corporate law’ to go along with valuable experience in litigation matters. Alongside this, she mentions her flexibility and reliability, along with her ability to ‘work on [her] own initiative and take responsibility’ as the factors that have led to her being able to ‘look at matters from different perspectives and easily understand issues in order to find suitable and risk free solutions’; these are all key factors in her success. Sanioğlu explains that she has ‘implemented various regulatory changes in the bank’, and in particular has put huge efforts into ‘updating the contract templates and internal procedures of the Bank’, to ensure that it is ‘completely compliant with the applicable legislation in Turkey’. While she concedes that ‘regulatory changes have been a big challenge in Turkey’, Sanioğlu believes that ‘understanding the underlying causes of those changes and knowing in-depth the procedures and operation of the Bank’ provide the ‘key solutions to overcome those challenges’.