Simge Soto Carril Joins Pentax Medical as Compliance Manager EMEA

Turkish lawyer Simge Soto Carril has joined Pentax Medical EMEA as a Compliance Manager in Hamburg.

Carril moved from TFS where she worked between 2018 and 2023 – first as a Corporate Lawyer and later as a Senior Site Contracts Manager. 

Prior to moving in-house, Carril first relocated to Hamburg to join Freshfields as a Senior Transactional Lawyer in 2015. In 2018, she was promoted to Legal Manager with the firm. Before that, she was a Legal Associate with Cerrahoglu Law Firm between 2012 and 2013 and an Associate with Bircanoglu Attorneys at Law between 2010 and 2012.

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