Lawyers in Turkey

Gokce Guler Sirin

Gökçe Güler Şirin is a senior legal and compliance advisor with over 25 years of leadership experience across private practice and multinational corporate environments. She is widely recognized for her ability to design and implement enterprise-wide legal and compliance strategies that drive sustainable growth, strengthen governance, and mitigate complex regulatory risks. With a proven track record in antitrust, telecom regulation, fintech and electronic money services, commercial contracts, and corporate transactions, as well as contract lifecycle management, Gökçe has led high-stakes negotiations, managed cross-border legal mandates, and played a key role in structuring strategic alliances and joint ventures. Gökçe brings a unique blend of legal expertise and business strategy, having successfully led the development and implementation of complex compliance architectures, high-impact special projects, and cross-industry collaborations across telecommunications, technology, and regulated markets. Her value proposition lies in her ability to design and execute compliance and legal frameworks aligned with long-term corporate strategy, integrate legal governance into transformational business initiatives (cross-border transactions, strategic alliances, M&As), enhance ethical conduct and corporate integrity through systems-thinking and leadership alignment and serve as a strategic consultant on stakeholder risks and regulatory shifts. She is a trusted voice at the intersection of law and business, known for aligning legal advisory with operational strategy, corporate goals and vision to drive strategy, manage risk, and build lasting stakeholder trust. CORE AREAS OF EXPERTISE Antitrust & Competition Law: Advises clients on merger control, cartel investigations, vertical restraints, and abuse of dominance cases, with a track record before Turkish and international competition authorities. Provides strategic counsel on competition and antitrust compliance, develop compliance and competitor monitoring programs. Telecom Regulation: Offers in-depth legal insight into licensing, spectrum use, market entry, compliance, and regulatory engagement for operators and technology firms. Fintech: Advises on legal and regulatory frameworks for electronic money institutions, digital wallets, mobile payment systems and embedded finance models. Provides strategic counsel on licensing, operational compliance, AML & ABM obligations, and consumer protection across digital finance ecosystems. Supports the design, governance, and compliance architecture of financial technology products in alignment with evolving regulatory expectations and innovation-driven business goals. Contract Negotiation & Transaction Management: Leads high-value negotiations, particularly in sectors such as telecommunications, energy, and infrastructure; ensures strategic alignment and contractual clarity. Corporate & Commercial Transactions: Advises on cross-border joint ventures, asset transfers, procurement models, and public-private structuring, particularly in regulated industries. Regulatory Compliance & Risk Management: Designs and implements legal risk frameworks, compliance programs, and internal policy architecture across corporate groups. Frequently works with stakeholders across legal, risk, and product teams to ensure scalable, future-proof compliance in a rapidly changing regulatory landscape. Public Procurement & Market Conduct: Represents clients in relation to tender disputes, concession models, and market abuse investigations tied to dominant position or collusive practices. Ethics & Compliance: Develops and implements end-to-end compliance architectures covering both global policy and local regulatory frameworks. Advises to clients on anti-bribery & corruption (ABMC), anti-money laundering (AML), and economic sanctions compliance, aligning corporate conduct with international regulatory expectations. Oversees internal investigations, monitors integrity risks, and leads the design of whistleblowing, reporting, and monitoring systems to ensure corporate accountability and ethical governance

STG Partners

Gokhan Enkur

Partner

Atayilmaz Enkür Çetinkaya Öner (AECO) Law Office

Gregor Alexander Petric

Counsel

Çelepçi in cooperation with Schoenherr

Gul Nevra Aydin

Senior Associate

Kesikli Law Firm

Gul Senguler

Gul is a Partner in Senguler and heads the litigation department of the firm. She advises on a wide range of Turkish Law matters, with a focus on employment and commercial litigation as well as debt collection matters. Gul represents multinational companies in Turkey in reinstatement claims and compensation claims before labour courts, providing daily advice on employment related queries of clients, assisting client during collective dismissal processes, prepares reports in order to assess the potential financial risk of the client in case of collective dismissals, develops settlement strategy with global counsel management. Gul has 25 + years of experience in execution proceedings, debt collection and enforcement of judgements also acted for a number of banks in Turkey.

Sengüler & Partners

Gulce Korkmaz Erdem

Competition Consultant

Bas | Kaymaz Law Firm

Gulcen ATASEVER BASCI

SENIOR ASSOCIATE

Dericioglu & Eren Law Office

Gunes Yalcin

Partner

ÖzmenYalçin

Gökhan Kesim

Partner

EAK Legal

Gökhan Okan

Partner

Ergün Avukatlik Bürosu

Gökçe Dağdaş Poçan

Managing Associate

Kenaroglu Avukatlik Burosu

Gökçe Sarısu Kanmaz

Partner, Tax

Balcioglu Selçuk Eymirlioglu Ardiyok Keki Attorney Partnership

Gökçe Serez

Gökçe Serez is a senior associate in Investigations, Compliance & Ethics team at Esin Attorney Partnership. Gökçe focuses on internal investigations, trade sanctions, export controls, anti-corruption and anti-bribery, anti-money laundering and counter terror financing, gifts and hospitality expenses and white-collar crimes. She establishes tailored compliance programs for her clients, provides compliance training on various topics and prepares various compliance policies. She also carries out compliance due diligence during M&A projects and third-party compliance due diligence to identify and mitigate any compliance related risks. She coordinates and leads cross-border and complex investigations stemming from different potential breach of law from the beginning to the end by advising on multiple disciplines and ensure the establishment of adequate and efficient corrective measures. She has a wide range of experience on compliance in various sectors such as defense, pharmaceuticals, automotive, construction, retail, banking and finance, and technology.

Esin Attorney Partnership, Member Firm of Baker & McKenzie International, a Swiss Verein

Gökçe Türkoğlu

Partner

Pelister Keki Sarac & Co

Gökçe Uluç

Local Partner

GKC Partners (in professional association with White & Case)

Gökçe Uzun

Gökçe Uzun specialises in banking and finance, including syndications, project financings, export credit financings, securitisations and other structured financings. She has advised lenders, sponsors, developers and other investors on landmark energy and infrastructure projects, including healthcare and transport PPPs and has extensive experience advising on commercial and financing elements of many projects in Turkey and the CEE region. *Clifford Chance works in cooperation with CIFTCI Attorney Partnership in Turkey

Clifford Chance

Gökçe Uzun

Counsel, Banking & Finance

CE Partners in association with Clifford Chance

Gökçe YAVUZCAN KAYA

Associate

Kaslioglu Law Firm

Gökçe ÖZ

Kaslioglu Law Firm

Gökçe İldiri Coşgüner

Partner Gökçe İldiri Coşgüner has experience in domestic and cross-border acquisitions, with a particular focus on private equity transactions. She advises sector‑leading clients and private equity funds on a wide range of M&A matters. Gökçe represents domestic and international clients in the drafting and negotiation of transaction documents, including share purchase, option, pledge, escrow and shareholders’ agreements. Her M&A work covers various transaction structures involving joint ventures and private companies operating in sectors such as food production, manufacturing, technology and fintech.

Kolcuoglu Demirkan Koçakli

Gökçe İzgi

Partner

Moroglu Arseven

Gökçen Durgut

Senior Associate

GKC Partners (in professional association with White & Case)

Gönenç Gürkaynak

Founding Partner

ELIG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law

Görkem Bilgin

Partner

Gün + Partners