He graduated from the Faculty of Law at Istanbul University. He served as an assistant at the same faculty from 1989 till 1994 and as a freelance lawyer until 2000. He served as Legal Counsel at BP Turkey from 2000 till 2006. He also represented BP Turkey at the Committee on European Downstream Activities of BP as a Member of the Board of Directors. In 2006, he assumed the position of Chief Legal Counselor at Siemens Turkey, and then member of the Board and Executive Board of Directors. In 2016, he became a Member of the Board of Directors of Gebze Organized Industrial Zone on behalf of Siemens Turkey. Serving as Chief Legal Officer at SOCAR Turkey Enerji A.S. since 2018, Savaş also serves as a Member of the Board of Directors in some of the group companies of SOCAR Turkey.