Emre Özkan, the founder of Özkan & Partners, is a corporate and M&A lawyer with a 10+ years' long track record of working for oil&gas, energy, automotive, insurance, media, industrial manufacture, retail, pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, e-commerce, technology sectors. He has extensive experience in corporate governance and M&A, in particular mergers and spin-offs, sale and purchase of public and private companies, joint ventures, asset deals and private equity deals. In addition to commercial law, he advises on real estate, data protection, intellectual property and labour law.

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After graduating from Koç University Law School and before founding Özkan & Partners, he worked in Corporate and M&A Departments of two leading international law firms in Istanbul dealing with cross-border transactions.

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Emre Özkan is admitted to the Istanbul Bar Association. He is fluent in English.

Selin Özdamar is a corporate and M&A lawyer with more than 15+ years' long track record of working for a variety of clients in energy, e-commerce, manufacture & retail, entertainment, transport, fashion, real estate and banking sectors. She has extensive experience in capital markets law and other regulated markets such as oil & gas. In addition to commercial law, she is a compliance manager advising on investigation structures, employment, intellectual property, data protection and reorganization/bankruptcy laws.

 

While studying law in Istanbul University, she started working full-time in a leading international law firm where she spent more than 10 years in Istanbul and Berlin offices in Corporate and M&A as well as Insolvency and Restructuring Departments, and meanwhile completed her LL.M in Humboldt University Berlin. Subsequently she joined an independent boutique law firm as the Corporate and M&A Partner in Istanbul.

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Selin Özdamar is admitted to the Istanbul Bar Association and qualified as a certified Compliance Manager in Germany. She is fluent in English and German, and also speaks Dutch.

N. Kerem Üler, has been practicing law in different capacities for 20+ years in various roles in Istanbul as one of the leading counsels for real property, employment and social security law. In addition to his extensive experience in these areas he has advised clients on corporate M&A transactions, represented startup founders for their financing negotiations and has also invested in several startups as a seed investor. He has led numerous multinational transactions and has experience in doing business in several countries in addition to his capacity as a Turkish Law qualified lawyer. 

 

Following his graduation from Eastern Mediterranean University, he started to work for one of the leading holding companies in Turkey, mostly dealing with employment law. After spending two years as an in-house lawyer, he transferred to an international law firm, where he worked mostly in fields of pharmaceuticals, retail, asset management, agriculture and financial service sectors for almost a decade until founding his own boutique legal practice specializing in corporate, employment and real property law. He has since relocated to Amsterdam and he will be doing an LLM at the Vrij Universiteit in Amsterdam on International Business Law; Climate Change and Corporate Responsibilty at one of the leading institutions of the field.

N. Kerem Üler is admitted to the Istanbul Bar Association. He is fluent in English and also speaks French and Dutch.