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Süreyya Korkmaz

Süreyya Korkmaz is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution team with particular experience in litigation, dispute resolution and environmental law.  Her main areas of practice include corporate law, commercial law, consumer law, lease law, administrative law and contract law. She handles pre-litigation and litigation matters for her clients, mostly in the real estate & […]

Betül Avcılar

Betül Avcılar is an Associate in the Litigation team. She focuses primarily on private law.  Prior to joining Lexist, Betül worked in the litigation department of a well-regarded Istanbul law firm. In this role, Betül provided legal counsel and legal services to a significant number of local and international clients, representing them in legal proceedings […]

Esad Çatak

Esad Çatak is an associate in Lexist’s Arbitration team, specializing in construction and investment disputes. He has extensive practical expertise in international arbitrations under the rules of various international arbitration institutions, such as ICSID, ICC, LCIA, and LMAA. Esad’s practice covers representing governments in investment treaty arbitrations and employers and contractors in international construction disputes, […]

Önercan Kılıç

Önercan Kılıç is a Senior Associate in the Employment department. He focuses on employment and labour law consultancy, mediation and litigation representing clients in both judicial and administrative proceedings. Önercan also has a specialty in sports law. Onercan is highly experienced with hands on  expertise of Trade Union and Collective Bargaining Agreements Law, having represented […]

Faruk Erbay

Graduated in 2022 from Istanbul University Faculty of Law, Faruk Erbay works as a lawyer in our litigation department. Since joining Lexist, he has been providing consultancy services to clients in the fields of Personal Data Protection Law, Trademark Law and Intellectual Property Law and continues his expertise in Commercial Law and Lease Law. Faruk […]

Dilara Miray Sonsuz

Dilara Miray Sonsuz is an associate in the consultancy department. She graduated from Istanbul Medipol University in 2022 and completed several internships in Istanbul law firms, experiencing and participating in hearings, mainly in the fields of labour law, commercial law, and civil law. In addition, she has attended training in the fields of personal data protection […]

Duygu Öztürk Dinçer

Duygu Öztürk is a Counsel in the Banking & Finance and Corporate/M&A teams. Her practice mainly concentrates on project finance, public private partnerships (PPPs), privatisations as well as M&As in highly regulated sectors, involving transportation infrastructure (airports), energy and financial services in particular. In this context, she has broad experience of banking and finance and […]

Yunus Emre İnal

Yunus Emre İnal is an Associate in the Litigation team focusing on employment. His clients are from a variety of sectors and he advises them within the scope of the employment, labour and social security legislation. Yunus Emre also offers clients litigation services on the law of obligations, bankruptcy and enforcement and commercial law.

Sevde Nur Paksoy

Sevde Nur Paksoy is a Senior Associate in the Corporate/M&A team with a focus on capital markets and the real estate sector. She advises domestic and foreign investors on all their corporate, commercial and compliance matters. Prior to joining Lexist, Sevde worked on one of Turkey’s largest infrastructure (airport) investment projects in recent years, gaining […]

Neşem Nazlı Aksoy

Neşem Nazlı Aksoy is a Managing Senior Associate in the Litigation department, focusing on commercial disputes. Her main areas of law are corporate, commercial, consumer, rental and contract law. She pursues litigation and pre-litigation processes for her clients, many of whom are in the real estate & construction sector. Neşem is also called upon by […]

Meysa Yamakoğlu

Meysa Yamakoğlu is an Associate in the Corporate/M&A, Energy and Banking & Finance teams. She provides consultancy services to domestic and foreign companies, public institutions and organizations operating in Turkey. Highlights from her financial services practice, include being a key team member of high profile innovative deals to establish new generation payment services and e-money […]

Kadir Özdemir

Kadir Özdemir is a Senior Associate in the Corporate/M&A and Banking & Finance teams. He focuses on projects in the energy sector. Kadir joined Lexist following a five-year in-house general counsel position with EUAS International ICC, an international subsidiary of Elektrik Uretim A.S which is the largest electricity utilities company in Turkey. There, Kadir developed […]

Etka Koçoğlu

Etka Koçoğlu is an Associate in the Arbitration team of Lexist. He represents governmental bodies in investment treaty arbitrations and private parties in complex international construction and energy disputes. Etka has hands-on experience in international arbitrations held under the auspices of various international arbitration institutions such as ICSID, LCIA and ICC. His sector focus is […]

Elif Yaşaroğlu

Elif Yaşaroğlu is a Senior Associate in the Litigation team focusing on Intellectual Property (“IP”) and Data Protection (“DP”). Her clients are from a variety of sectors and include private, public and non-governmental enterprises. Elif’s IP and DP consultancy practices include sector-specific compliance services in accordance with both Turkish and international legislation, and litigation services […]

Ayşe Ergül Arslanoğlu

Ayşe Ergül Arslanoğlu is a Senior Associate in the Litigation team focusing on commercial and corporate law. She advises her clients in the litigation and pre-litigation processes for matters of contract, company, consumer, real estate, construction and commercial Law. Ayşe also offers clients services in inheritance and administrative law.