Berna AYTAC

Attorney-at-Law / Of-Counsel

Berna has been providing legal consultancy for more than 10 years in various fields of law including technology/media/telecommunications, data protection, financial technologies, internet law, intellectual property law, commercial contracts, and healthcare law.

She has worked as an associate at Özbek Attorney Partnership, as a legal counsel at Portal Rights Management, and as a senior associate at ELİG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law and Yazicioglu Legal.

Berna holds a CIPP/E certification in data protection and has participated in research groups focusing on blockchain and technology law regulation. She has also been a speaker at various blockchain events and has participated in various NFT projects.

Berna received her law degree from Bilkent University Faculty of Law in 2010.

She completed her master's degree on International Intellectual Property Law with Merit at Brunel University London with her dissertation titled "Comparative Analysis on Online Service Providers’ Third-Party Copyright Liability in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Systems," written in 2012. In the dissertation, she examined the legal liability of service providers in P2P systems.

Berna is fluent in English and knows intermediate French. Berna is voluntarily contributing to data protection field in Turkey as a co-chair of IAPP KnowledgeNet Istanbul chapter.