Our Team
Taşkın & Şimşek has dynamic and inspiring human resource. We provide stable service with competent lawyers and expert academic advisors.
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Founder

İbrahim Taşkın

İbrahim Taşkın was born in Trabzon in 1965 and completed secondary school and high school in Istanbul. He graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Law in 1986. He completed military service in Şanlıurfa in 1988 as Discipline Officer in Disciplinary Court. Since 1989, he has been registered as Attorney in Istanbul Bar Association. He has taught at Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedures Law, Police Profession Legislation as a lecturer at Florya Police Training Center affiliated to the General Directorate of Security for 4 years since 1990.

Between 1996 and 2004, he was involved in political activities to include various tasks as well as an Attorney. Since 2004, he is responsible for Legal Affairs of one of the biggest company of Turkey. He is currently a member of the board of directors of many companies and serves as founder, manager and/or member of various associations and foundations. In addition to his responsibilities in the aforementioned company, he also serves as Chairman of Honor Board, Chairman of Food Security and Defense Board and Chairman of Global Legal Affairs. 

Founder

Halil Şimşek

 

Since the beginning of his professional life, he has been providing consultancy service to the leading Holding companies of our country and local and foreign companies in different sectors. He was also involved in the establishment and management of legal departments of some groups and companies.

In addition to basic legal branches, Halil Şimşek has had the opportunity to acquire a wide range of legal knowledge in his working life over 20 years specifically; education, retail, shopping center, marina, printing publication, technology, food, textile, venture capital, security and service sectors.

He also specializes in the case and dispute analysis, strategy development, contract negotiation, and management.

Education

Istanbul University, LLB, Faculty of Law, 1996

Affiliation

Istanbul Bar Association, 1998

Attorney

Arif Sezgin

 

Arif Sezgin provides legal consultancy to our clients which one of the leading companies in the discount market sector that operates nationwide in their operations. Arif Sezgin supports the resolution of disputes related to many fields of law and also supports our offices in foreign clients and foreign-related disputes and transactions.

Education

Marmara University, LLB, Faculty of Law, 2001

New York University, Commercial Law Degree, New York, USA, 2010

Istanbul University, Mediation Training, 2017

Languages

English

Affiliation

İstanbul Bar Association,2003

Department of Mediation, 2017

Attorney

Serap Demiröz

 

Serap Demiröz focuses on employment and social security law, commercial law, litigation and dispute resolution areas in the retail and merchandising sectors.

Education
Marmara University, LLB, Faculty of Law, 1996

Languages
English

Affiliation
Istanbul Bar Association, 1997
İstanbul Bar, Women Right Center

Attorney

Perihan Yazan

 

Perihan Yazan has provided legal advisory services to companies and institutions operating in various sectors such as real estate – construction, textile, industry, printing & publishing and so on. Also; she provides legal service in commercial law, contracting law, administrative law, business and social security law to our client companies operating in the fields of printing & publishing, textile and production.

Education

Istanbul University, 2002, Faculty of Law

 

Language

English

Professional Memberships

Istanbul Bar Association – 2002

Attorney

Sakine Çelikkol

 

Sakine Çelikkol focuses on many areas of law speacializing adaptation of private law contracts to legislative amendments and administration law, criminal law, employment law, litigation and dispute resolution areas in the retail and merchandising sectors.

Education

Akdeniz University, 2004, LLB, School of Law

Languages

English

Affiliation

İstanbul Bar Association, 2014 

Attorney

Belgin Durgut Alper

 

Belgin Durgut Alper has provided legal advisory services to companies and institutions operating in various sectors such as real estate – construction, energy, textile, industry, retailing, education, press and publishing on following commercial and legal cases. Also; she provides legal service in contracting law, administrative law, business and social security law to our client companies operating in the fields of education, production, and textile.

Education

Marmara University, 2008, LLB, Faculty of Law

Language

English

Professional Memberships

Istanbul Bar Association – 2009

Attorney

Dilşad Algan

 

Dilşad Algan renders legal service to companies operating in the fields of international logistics/land and sea transport, varies under the corporate and commercial law, labor law and legal disputes and litigation areas. She currently focuses on aforementioned areas as well as many areas of law in retail, shopping centers, sea tourism and marine operation sectors. 

Education

İstanbul University, 2010, LLB, School of Law

Languages

English

Affiliation

İstanbul Bar Association, 2011

Attorney

Ahmet Burak Taşkın

 

Following his graduation from Istanbul University Faculty of Law, Ahmet Burak Taşkın spent more than a year in New York-based international law firm as an intern and took part in many international projects. During the internship period, he conducted research on the operation of Anglo-American law and gave support in many legal disputes and contractual procedures, including comparative law in consultancy to Turkish companies operating in the United States. Ahmet Burak Taşkın joined our office in 2017 and supports our client companies in the area of commercial law, intellectual property law and legal disputes and litigation.

Education

İstanbul University, 2015, LLB, School of Law

Languages

English

Affiliation

İstanbul Bar Association, 2018 

Attorney

Samet Erkul

 

Samet Erkul focuses on corporate & commercial law, consumer law, employment law, franchise-originated and general litigation and dispute resolution areas in various sectors.

Education

Selçuk University, 2013, LLB, School of Law

Istanbul University, Mediation Training, 2019

Istanbul Bar Association CPL Training, 2019

Istanbul University, Training on Concordat Office, 2020

Language

English

Affiliation

Istanbul Bar Association, 2014
Young ISTAC, 2016 (Istanbul Arbitration Center)
Mediation Department, 2020
Legal Expert Department – Concordat Commissioner, 2020

Attorney

Nurten Görgülü Aydın

 

Nurten Görgülü Aydın focuses on Corporate & Commercial law, Consumer law, Employment and Social Securitylaw, franchise-originated and general litigation and dispute resolution areas in retail, merchandising, logistics and food sectors.

Education

İstanbul University, 2013, LLB, School of Law

Languages

English

Affiliation

İstanbul Bar Association, 2013

Attorney

Nazmiye Akyıldız

 

Nazmiye Akyıldız focuses on Consumer Law, Employment and Social Security Law, Litigation and Dispute Resolution areas in the retail and merchandising sectors.

Education

Maltepe University, 2012, LLB, Law Faculty

Languages

English

Affiliation

İstanbul Bar Association, 2014 

Attorney

Sinem Boduroğlu

 

Sinem Boduroğlu focuses on corporate & commercial law, consumer law, employment law, franchise-originated and general litigation and dispute resolution areas in the retail and merchandising sectors.

Education

İstanbul University, 2013, LLB, School of Law

Languages

English

Affiliation

İstanbul Bar Association, 2014

Attorney

Merve Aydın

 

Merve Aydın focuses on education, many local and foreign organizations involved in the complex business flow of this sector. She provides advisory services for the legal needs of our clients and also operates in the fields of Commercial Law, Intellectual Property, Administrative Law and Employment & Social Security Law and so on.

Education 

Fatih University, LLB, School of Law, 2015

Fatih University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Science International Relations Department, 2015, (Magna cum laude)

Languages

English

Affiliation

İstanbul Bar Association, 2016

Attorney

Fatmanur Erten

 

Fatmanur Erten focuses on corporate & commercial law, consumer law, employment law, franchise-originated and general litigation and dispute resolution areas in various sectors.

Education

Fatih University, 2015, LLB, School of Law (Full-Scholarship)

Fatih University, 2015, SAS, Philosophy (Double- Major)

Language

English

Affiliation

İstanbul Bar Association, 2016

Attorney

Tuğçe Gül

 

Tuğçe Gül focuses on Administration Law, Criminal Law, Employment Law, Litigation and Dispute Resolution areas in the retail and merchandising sectors.

Education

İstanbul University, 2015, LLB, School of Law

Languages

English

Affiliation

İstanbul Bar Association, 2016 

Attorney

Burak Karagöz

Burak Karagöz focuses on corporate & commercial law, consumer law, employment law, franchise-originated and general litigation and dispute resolution areas in various sectors.

Education

Marmara University, 2015, LLB, School of Law

Language

English

Affiliation

İstanbul Bar Association, 2017

Attorney

Esra Ünver

Esra Ünver mainly focuses on corporate & commercial law, consumer law, employment law, and general litigation and dispute resolution areas in various sectors.

Education

İstanbul Şehir University, 2018, LLB, School of Law

Languages

English

Affiliation

İstanbul Bar Association, 2019

Attorney

Muhammet Raşit Özdemir

Muhammet Raşit Özdemir provides legal consultancy to our clients in retail and merchandising in the field of legal disputes arising from commercial law, labor and social security law and consumer law relations.

Education

Istanbul University, 2017, Faculty of Law

Foreign Language

English

Professional Memberships

Istanbul Bar Association, 2018

Attorney

Büşra Öksüm

 

Büşra Öksüm focuses on Corporate & Commercial Law, Consumer Law, Employment & Social Security Law, Real Estate Law and general litigation and dispute resolution areas in the retail and merchandising sectors.

Education

İstanbul Commercial University, 2016, LLB, School of Law

Languages

English, Arabic

Affiliation

İstanbul Bar Association, 2016

 

 

Financial Relations Manager

Mehmet İnan

 

Mehmet İnan is part of our team on managing and executing financial relations and has been playing a leading role in managing the relationships between our clients and contacts and our offices with the experience of years.

Education

Marmara University, 1986, Faculty of Economics

Paralegal

Esra Pelit

 

Esra Pelit serves to provide updates on the reports prepared by our departments that serve our clients operating in the retail sectors and to provide support in other matters.

Asisstant

Elif Akdinç

 

Elif Akdinç provides support for the fulfillment of many administrative procedures, especially the process of organizing the issues that our clients need to represent in different cities.

Asisstant

Bahar Doğan

 

In addition to providing support to our lawyers for the office’s administrative procedures, Bahar Doğan provides data entry in the operation of our automation system, which plays an important role in the internal functioning of our office.

Paralegal

Mesut Şimşek

 

Mesut Şimşek, plays role in solving the receivables of our office primarily, but also supports our office in carrying out the processes in public institutions as a lawyer clerk.