Asli Yildiz

Legal Counsel, Canon

Asli is a Turkish qualified lawyer with over 7 years post qualification experience in the UK, Europe and Middle East, Africa, Central and Eastern Europe & Turkey region. Acts as a compliance officer and general counsel as her leading roles.

She is holding an International Commercial Law LLM from City University, London with a title of competition law specialist.

Before joining Canon Europe, Asli gained experience in regulated markets, litigation, competition law practices, contract and commercial law applications and compliance areas by working in private practice and global companies such as BT, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Acacia International in London.

In her current role as an Asli is advising to emerging markets’ senior management on their strategic projects such as establishing subsidiaries, representative offices, forming business models for B2B and B2C channels, managing distribution models & services, software and solution related developments and M&A activities.

In addition to this, she is the dedicated Data Protection lawyer in Canon Europe’s legal team, advising on the Data Protection/Privacy area as a member of the Data Privacy Competency centre of Canon EMEA. She is leading the projects for compliance of GDPR and providing trainings, workshops for internal and external clients.