General CounselHande Mahmutoğlu
Hande Mahmutoğlu is an accomplished Legal & Compliance Counsel at Doğuş Hospitality & Retail Group, recognised for combining strong technical legal expertise with a commercially minded, pragmatic and people-focused approach to legal and compliance leadership. With more than nine years of professional experience, she has developed particular expertise across competition law, regulatory compliance, data protection and privacy, commercial law and corporate legal risk management. Her career reflects a sustained commitment to developing legal functions that do more than respond to risk: they enable organisations to make confident, responsible and commercially sound decisions. Having begun her career in private practice before moving in-house, Mahmutoğlu brings together the analytical rigour of external counsel with a sophisticated understanding of the commercial and operational realities facing businesses. She has spoken particularly about the importance of in-house lawyers working closely across functions and approaching legal issues through both a commercial and managerial lens.