About

Founded over 90 years ago, Sabancı Holding is the parent company of Sabancı Group, Turkey’s largest industrial and financial conglomerate which operates in 18 countries and markets their products across the world. Ruba Unkan, one of Turkey’s most talented in-house lawyers and an ‘excellent team leader’ according to nominators, has enjoyed two separate spells at the corporation. Re-joining Sabancı as a director of legal affairs in 2014, Unkan has played an important role in overhauling and restructuring the legal department to create a function capable of seamlessly providing commercially-focused legal advice. Given the number of Sabancı Holding’s joint ventures with international partners and the wide array of sectors Sabancı Holding and its affiliates operate in globally, Unkan’s in-house legal qualities have been demonstrated consistently on a range of activities, whilst working closely and as an integral part of project teams. In her first stint at the company between 2006 and 2013 as legal counsel, Unkan worked on M&As, joint ventures, general corporate law and intellectual property law, playing a key role on structuring the legal framework of international and domestic M&A transactions.