easyJet the airline`s legal team helped run the company through 18 tumultuous months, including Covid-19-related travel restrictions, a cyberattack and a dispute with the company`s founder when he tried to impeach the CEO and president. Crucially, the lawyers helped restructure the company and raise £5.5 billion through a series of transactions. Archer-Daniels-Midland ADM`s legal team for Europe, middle east, Africa and India led and managed the legal aspects of forming a blockchain joint venture involving the world`s six largest food companies. The Covantis blockchain platform digitizes and tracks the global agribusiness, replacing a centuries-old paper-based process. Societe Generale Forge A multidisciplinary team combining expertise in legal, regulatory, capital markets and blockchain is a pioneer in new digital financial products. It worked with the European Investment Bank, the EU`s credit arm, to issue its first digital bond on a public blockchain, and in a subsequent transaction to borrow the bond via blockchain. The local supermarket chain was accused of illegally using the “Jialefu” logo, the Chinese version of “Carrefour”, in its company name and business activities. Carrefour says Jiale supermarkets use a blue logo similar to Carrefour`s on their store signs, price tags, receipts and shopping bags. This is likely to confuse consumers about the origin of supermarkets. WINNER: Gavi, the Vaccine AllianceThe public-private partnership for global health legal team played a leading role in the launch of Covax, the World Health Organization`s vaccine exchange initiative. Its 200 member countries have agreed to share resources for research, development and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines to ensure more equitable access worldwide. Lawyers have negotiated various agreements with high- and low-income countries, humanitarian partners, development banks and pharmaceutical companies.
They created new legal, financial and insurance mechanisms to manage the risks that were crucial to ensuring the participation of countries receiving vaccines – and vaccine manufacturers. Through a fully-fledged internal promotion policy, our employees are encouraged to look to the future, grow and grow within the company, whether vertically in management positions or at all levels by moving towards the jobs of the future that retail offers. Like the company and its customers, we promote diversity in all its forms and employ more and more people with disabilities. In each of the countries in which we operate, we make sure to be supported in our recruitment initiatives by local partners so that we can integrate as fully as possible into the existing ecosystem. WINNER: Aviva UKThe insurer`s lawyers have launched several initiatives over the past 18 months. They provided advice on developing a mental health toolkit shared with business clients of Aviva`s healthcare operations. In addition to defining legal issues related to consent and data, the lawyers ensured that the toolkit could be used internally by a number of corporate clients and Aviva. Galp Energia In two years, the legal team of the Portuguese oil and gas group has conducted nearly 180 transactions involving thousands of plots of land for the construction of new solar power plants. The team created standardized agreements and a risk assessment methodology to manage transaction volume. The projects help the company transition to clean energy production. In-house legal teams recruit more data, technology and litigation experts Carrefour The French distribution group`s Iberian legal team has automated all its supplier contracts, allowing its sales colleagues to create tens of thousands of new contracts each year without involving lawyers. The digital process ensures that contracts are compliant, which reduces risk and saves time, allowing the team to collect and analyze new data on the delivery of different products for their companies.
After graduating from Istanbul University Law Faculty, Gökçe Türkoğlu completed the Master`s program in Economic Law at Istanbul Bilgi University.