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The Sofra legal team has impressed peers working on the management of the group’s internal and contract processes, legal consultancy, compliance and data protection issues as well as handling the outsourcing of work to law firms. In the last two years the team has continued to exhibit a precise and proactive attitude whilst providing support to the group’s companies, which has more than 24,000 employees, particularly on client and supplier contract management, compliance and other legal services. In particular, the team has given special attention to delivering different trainings to over 1,000 employees, focusing on laws relating to data protection, contract management and labour law on a country-wide scale. General counsel Özgür Ozan Döker identifies that, ‘that the most important change in last two years was mainly the enhancement of our proactive attitude with regards to our approach and dealings with our business partners, either internal or external. In this regard, I believe that our renewed approach is much more open to communication and stresses the ultimate fact that we are altogether a team and our goal is the same’. The team’s strategy has paid off allowing it to handle large volumes of work, evident in an instance in the last year requiring thousands of contract examinations carried out entirely in-house by the team. The close knit team has a resilient and tenacious attitude towards its workload and is constantly overachieving beyond its expectation for its size. Döker, leads this award winning in-house legal team containing a total of four lawyers.