Gökçe Güler Şirin is a senior legal and compliance advisor with over 28 years of leadership experience across private practice and multinational corporate environments. She is widely recognized for her ability to design and implement enterprise-wide legal, corporate governance and compliance strategies that drive sustainable growth, strengthen governance, and mitigate complex regulatory, operational and stakeholder risks.
With a proven track record in antitrust and competition law, telecom regulation, fintech and electronic money services, commercial contracts, contract lifecycle management, corporate transactions, strategic alliances and M&A, Gökçe has led high-stakes negotiations, managed cross-border legal mandates, and played a key role in structuring strategic alliances and joint ventures. Her compliance experience spans sectoral and policy compliance, antitrust and competition law compliance, anti-bribery and corruption, AML/CFT, sanctions and trade controls, third-party and outsourcing risk, internal investigations, monitoring and remediation. She brings a unique blend of legal expertise and business strategy, having successfully led the development and implementation of complex compliance architectures, high-impact special projects, and cross-industry collaborations across telecommunications, technology, digital finance and regulated markets.
She is particularly valued for her ability to design and execute compliance and legal frameworks aligned with long-term corporate strategy, integrate legal governance into transformational business initiatives – cross-border transactions, strategic alliances, M&A – enhance ethical conduct and corporate integrity through systems-thinking and leadership alignment and serve as a strategic consultant on stakeholder risks and regulatory shifts.
She is a trusted voice at the intersection of law and business, known for aligning legal advisory with operational strategy, corporate goals and vision to drive strategy, manage risk, and build lasting stakeholder trust.
- Crypto Asset Service Providers and AML A Maturing Framework
- Turkey revised its merger control regime after four years with the adoption of the amendment under Communiqué No. 2026/2, which entered into force on February 11, 2026
- Türkiye’s 2026–2030 AML/CFT Roadmap: What the New Strategy Means for Obliged Entities