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Year 6, Issue 3 CEE APRIL 2019 Legal Matters 2019 Corporate Counsel Handbook ELİG GÜRKAYNAK Attorneys at Law INTEGRITY EFFICIENCY COMMITMENT ELIG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law is an eminent, independent Turkish law firm founded in 2005. The firm is based in Istanbul. Widely recognized as having the leading competition law practice in Turkey, our team consists of 45 dedicated competition law specialists led by Gönenç Gürkaynak, the firm’s partner with more than 20 years competition law experience, along with four partners and two counsel. Our competition law team at ELIG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law has a unique understanding and significant experience in a range of industries including pharmaceuticals, transportation & airlines, food & agricultural products, manufacturing, telecommunications, media & technology, healthcare & medical devices, energy, tobacco, construction and defense. In addition to our unparalleled experience in merger control issues, our team has vast experience in defending companies before the Turkish Competition Board in all phases of antitrust investigations, abuse of dominant position cases, leniency handlings, and before the courts on issues of private enforcement of competition law, along with appeals of the administrative decisions of the Turkish Competition Authority. ELIG (Gürkaynak) Attorneys-at-Law is still the first name … when it comes to We take pride in being able to assist our clients in all fields of law. “competition advice in Turkey. The team is led by Gönenç Gürkaynak and consists Our areas of expertise particularly include: competition law of 45 specialists… and - uniquely in Turkey - a full-time, in-house competition • corporate law • M&A • contracts law • white collar irregularities and economist. With a healthy roster of international clients, ELIG (Gürkaynak) compliance • data protection and cybersecurity law unsurprisingly is involved in some big global mergers. • litigation and dispute resolution • Internet law, technology, media and telecommunications law • intellectual property law • administrative law • real estate law • anti-dumping law Global Competition Review 100 2019, Elite Firm “ • pharma and healthcare regulatory • employment law • banking and finance law Stellar practice representing clients in antitrust investigations and proceedings before the Turkish Competition Authority … Highly esteemed for assisting “multinational corporations with Turkish merger control law … One client For further information, please contact: praises the firm’s “willingness to adapt and learn,” as well as its “ability to grasp Gönenç Gürkaynak, Founding Partner complexities of the business and apply legal and economic theories to a complex [email protected] reality.” … the firm has “great technical expertise and strategic input” is also said to be “proactive, easily approachable and very pragmatic when providing Çitlenbik Sokak, No. 12, Yıldız Mahallesi legal advice.” Beşiktaş, 34349, İstanbul, Turkey Tel: + 90 212 327 17 24 “ Chambers Europe 2018, Band 1 www.elig.com PRELIMINARY MATTERS APRIL 2019 CEE Legal Matters EDITORIAL: IN-HOUSE In-Depth Analysis of the News and Newsmakers That Shape Europe's Emerging Legal Markets BIG DEALS Once a year CEE Legal Matters places the breathe” their company (as spotlight squarely on the in-house lawyers in Bahar Yenerer of Atos put it), CEE, whose hard work often goes unnoticed the more GCs seem to realize since it only rarely – and in many cases never how much more they need The Editors: -- involves the execution of a huge deal. to invest time and energy towards integrating with the David Stuckey Nonetheless, these silent heroes play a critical rest of their organizations. [email protected] part in ensuring their companies navigate in- Radu Cotarcea creasingly complex regulatory seas with ease. To complement these in- [email protected] Thus, we are proud to put out this special issue house perspectives, we decid- each year, sometimes in the form of our bian- ed to move our annual Table Letters to the Editors: nual General Counsel survey, and sometimes of Deals from its traditional spot in our Year If you like what you read in these – like in this issue – in the form of interviews Kick-Off issue into this Handbook. We’ve pages (or even if you don’t) we and qualitative input. Either way, we celebrate spent countless hours in front of massive excel really do want to hear from you. the hard work of senior in-house counsel sheets to aggregate all the work carried out by Please send any comments, crit- across CEE and to offer them a platform to law firms in the region — much of which was icisms, questions, or ideas to us exchange notes on best practices. reported on the CEE Legal Matters website in at: 2018. The hope is that this list can act as a go- [email protected] This sixth edition of the Corporate Counsel to source of information for you, the GC, as Handbook revolves around conversations with you consider which firms are active in your ju- General Counsel on areas of professional in- risdictions and review their track records (and Disclaimer: terest, including: The Evolving Role of a GC; yes, as always, an indexed and searchable table At CEE Legal Matters, we hate boil- Building a Compliance Culture; Deal-Making erplate disclaimers in small print as is published in electronic format on our web- much as you do. But we also recognize as the GC; and Managing the In-House Team. site along with the launch of this issue). the importance of the “better safe than sorry” principle. So, while we strive for accuracy and hope to develop our read- Back in 2015, in the second edition of this As always, we hope you’ll find this Handbook ers’ trust, we nonetheless have to be ab- Handbook, I wrote about my appreciation of useful and you’ll enjoy the read (far more so solutely clear about one thing: Nothing In-House Counsel not using “Too Much Lat- in the CEE Legal Matters magazine or than David and I [sarcasm font:] enjoyed re- website is meant or should be under- in” as they seemed, even then, to be focused viewing the hundreds of Table of Deals en- stood as legal advice of any kind. Read- more on the real-world application of legisla- tries, and even more than I sadistically enjoyed ers should proceed at their own risk, and any questions about legal assertions, tion, rather than more abstract and theoretical hearing David’s deep sighs in the office during conclusions, or representations made discussions of it. In this edition, regardless those hours). in these pages should be directed to the person or persons who made them. of the specific focus of each conversation, one message was repeated by pretty much P.S. David speaking here: Those were less We believe CEE Legal Matters can serve as a useful conduit for legal ex- every GC we spoke to: “Stop waiting for legal “sighs” than they were explosions of frustra- perts, and we will continue to look for problems to come to you, get up from your tion and fatigue, and my annual muttering that ways to exapnd that service. But now, later, and for all time: We do not our- desk and out of your office, and talk to your I will never get caught doing this project again. selves claim to know or understand the colleagues across functions in your business.” Now I sigh: I’m sure I’ll be doing it again next law as it is cited in these pages, nor do we accept any responsibility for facts as This call-to-action seems to be getting stronger year. they may be asserted. and stronger each year as GCs dig ever deeper into their businesses. The more they “live and Radu Cotarcea CEE Legal Matters 3 APRIL 2019 PRELIMINARY MATTERS nt.hu 4 CEE Legal Matters PRELIMINARY MATTERS APRIL 2019 Preliminary Matters 2 - 5 2 Editorial: In-House Big Deals Across the Wire 6 - 11 6 Across The Wire: Featured Deals The Right Attitude: Inside Insight 12 - 55 An Interview with Artyom Podshibyakin of INDITEX (p 16) 12 Adding Value Beyond Legal An Interview with Artur Chrzanowski, Head of Legal, EIFFAGE 14 Live and Breathe Your Company An Interview with Bahar Yenerer, General Counsel, Atos (Turkey) 16 The Right Attitude An Interview with Artyom Podshibyakin, Head of Legal and Compliance, INDITEX Russia Red Lines With Empathy: 18 Compliance Out of the Shadows An Interview with Adriana Minovic, DPO / Head of Data An Interview with Basak Gurbuz of The Protection Department, Ergomed Group Walt Disney Company (p 26) 21 Building a “Hard” Foundation for Your Compliance Culture An Interview with Andras Mohacsi, Head of Competition Law and Sanctions, British American Tobacco 24 The Cherry on Top: The Compliance Culture An Interview with Andras Levai, Head of Legal - CE Ethics and Compliance at Tesco Central Europe 26 Red Lines With Empathy: An Interview with Basak Gurbuz, Counsel, The Walt Disney Company Turkey Tuxes and Triumph: 28 Get Out There to Make That Deal Happen A Night of Celebration at the DOTY An Interview with Ante Sucur, Head of Legal Affairs and Awards Banquet (p 34) Company Secretary, Mercury Processing Services Int. 31 Engaging and Empowering Your Lawyers An Interview with Bardugov Alexander, Head of Legal, Banca Intesa (Russia) Tuxes and Triumph 34 - 37 34 Tuxes and Triumph: A Night of Celebration at the DOTY Awards Banquet 2018 Table of Deals: 36 Winners of the 2018 Deal Of The Year Awards A summary of all the work carried out by law firms in the region (p 38) 2018 Table of Deals 38 - 98 CEE Legal Matters 5 APRIL 2019 ACROSS THE WIRE ACROSS THE WIRE: FEATURED DEALS 6 CEE Legal Matters FEATURED DEALS APRIL 2019 Karanovic & Partners Advises on PPF Acquisition of Telenor Banka Karanovic & Partners advised the Czech Republic’s PPF Group on its acquisition of Telenor Banka, the first fully mobile and online bank operating in Serbia, from Norwegian mobile oper- ator Telenor.