About

Çağla Zıngıl, chief legal officer and legal director, runs an impressive in-house legal outfit at Akkök Sanayi Yatırım ve Geliştirme (Akkök Holdings). After its founding in 1952, Akkök Holdings has expanded to become an important Turkish holding company in the chemical, energy and real estate sectors controlling some of the country’s most important companies with 18 trading and industrial companies and 18 production facilities in Turkey and abroad. The in-house legal team advises on all legal matters pertaining to the diverse group of companies including a whole remit of financial, legal, commercial, chemical regulatory, and property matters. Akkök Holding includes highly successful stand out companies like AKSA Acrylic, Turkey’s only local producer of acrylic fibre meeting 17% of the global market’s needs, and DowAksa – a joint venture with Dow Chemical Company and Aksa Akrilik San.