Filiz Gürsoy

Business Laywer

guersoy@kinast.eu

+49 221 222 1830

Filiz Gürsoy is a business lawyer, certified data protection officer and a certified compliance officer (TÜV) . She works for KINAST in a diversified field consisting of clients from a wide range of industries, such as banks, FinTech companies and church institutions.

Education & Career

Filiz studied Bachelor of Laws and Master of Laws with a focus on corporate law at the University of Siegen. She completed internships at a bank in Leeds, England and at a law firm in London. During her master studies she represented her university in New York in a project team and already there she experienced that cooperation and exchange in a team are the basic requirements for success.

She supports in advising large companies as well as NGOs and start-ups. Her focus on the Austrian and German markets. In her previous employment at a large German law firm, she assisted in the implementation of internal data protection management systems and gained practical knowledge in the areas of compliance as well as M&A, also benefiting from the knowledge she gained from her business law studies. In addition to providing support in client consulting and data protection audits, her strengths include conducting data protection training courses.

Milestones

Certified data protection officer (TÜV Rheinland)
Certified Compliance Officer (TÜV)
Commercial lawyer in a large law firm in Cologne
Employee in the legal department of a German publishing house in Frankfurt am Main
Internships at a law firm in London and at a bank in Leeds, England
Master's thesis on "The Public Moral Doctrine as an Exceptional Regime of the GATT
Master's degree in German and European business law with a focus on corporate law at the University of Siegen, Germany
Bachelor's thesis on "The administration of pre-accession aid for the EU- Accession Candidates by the EU Commission." Bachelor studies German and European Business Law at the University of Siegen

Character

Our clients appreciate Filiz for her reliable and mandate-oriented advice. In addition, in her role as external data protection officer, she attaches great importance to providing targeted, serious, specialist and solution-oriented advice.

Languages

German

English

Turkish

Filiz is here to help

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By working in an international environment, Filiz has gained extensive experience in various fields, which enables her to take a confident and practical approach in her current work.

Filiz specialises in the following branches

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