Bener Partners Gözde Esen Sakar and Maria Lianedes Çelebi joint authored a briefing chosen for publication by The Lawyer Magazine.

Supported by Prof. Dr. Veliye Yanlı in her capacity as a leading Turkish commercial code expert, the key issues arising from changes brought about in the upcoming New Turkish Commercial Code as well as those to be considered from employment and immigration law perspectives were discussed.

Bener Law Office is delighted to announce its latest Partner, Mr. Sezai Sur, who also becomes Head of Litigation effective from 1st January 2012.

As part of Bener Law Office’s strategic growth, which recently included the acquisition of Küçük&Küçük, a well regarded boutique disputes law firm, Sezai will drive significant expansion of the Dispute Resolution practice.

Sezai brings over 15 years of cross industry experience and is a trusted advisor to many leading local and international companies. Prior to joining Bener Law Office, Sezai was in-house counsel for six years at Turkish insurer Yapı Kredi Sigorta A.Åž. and before that for the DarüÅŸÅŸafaka Association.

Onur Kordel joined a host of speakers at this TFI News event, graciously hosted by the British Consulate in Istanbul and endorsed by the International Project Finance Association (IPFA), International PPP Platform Turkey.

Onur spoke to distinguished delegates on the challenges and opportunities of the legal framework for infrastructure investment through BOT projects in Turkey, as well as drawing on his working experience of PPP application in the healthcare sector and the expectations of the new draft PPP law that is due for enactment.

For more information on infrastructure investment opportunities in Turkey, including PPP, please feel free to contact us.

Erim Bener, Founding Partner of Bener Law Office, has been recognised by Lawyer Monthly Magazine in their Global Leading Lawyers 100 suppliment for his contribution to the profession and for the work of the law firm.

"I am delighted that the work of Bener Law Office is recognised alongside many excellent peers, and even happier that the office continues from strength to strength in the current tough economic climate" - Erim Bener

We are pleased to announce that Ius Laboris has been named European Law Firm Network of the Year 2011. Bener is proud to be a founding member of this network, and remains the exclusive Turkish member.

Ius Laboris is a network of leading Global Human Resource Lawyers.

We are delighted to have been awarded this in recognition of $2.2bn project financing work for the Kolin Limak Cengiz consortium during their acquisition of two privatised electricity distribution companies, UEDAS and CEDAS.

We are delighted to announce that on 17th October 2011, Bener Law Office has acquired Küçük&Küçük Law Firm.

This acquisition is firmly in line with Bener’s core values of client focus, solution based service and extremely high standards of legal advice, as well as our strategy of controlled growth. This move further strengthens Bener’s Dispute Resolution capabilities alongside our other leading practice teams in Corporate and M&A, Construction and Real Estate, Energy and Mining, Banking and Finance, IT and Telecoms, Employment, Corporate Immigration and Corporate Maintenance.

Küçük&Küçük Law Firm has served its clients admirably since 2006 as a boutique firm, and built a first class reputation across the spectrum of dispute resolution; acting in local and cross-border Litigations, Arbitrations (including ICSID, ICC, LCIA), Non-Performing Loans, Debt Restructuring and Distressed Asset Investing to name a few. Bener Law Office has an existing depth of experience handling complex disputes successfully; however increasing demand for these services has made the time right to welcome Küçük&Küçük into the Bener team.
 

Our partner, Onur Kordel has chaired the second day of this distinguished event. For detailed information about this event, please click on; www.greenpowerconferences.com

We sponsored one of the the major Energy events in London that was organised by TBCCI on June 24 and Gözde ESEN SAKAR, our senior associate has made a presentation regarding the significant Energy Law issues in Turkey. For the detials of the event and the presentation, please click on; http://www.tbcci.org/eventsPresentations.php

This 2-day umbrella-event for finance, investors, key-players and new entrants looking at the infrastructure and energy markets in the EMEEA Region, organised by Euro Convention Conferences in Istanbul Conrad Hotel. Our partner Onur Kordel made a presentation regarding “Privatization Projects and Process in Turkey” on 4 June. For further information about this distinguished event, please click on the following link;

http://www.euroconvention.com/events.php?action=details&event_id=10

As the ACQ Global Awards enters its fourth triumphant year, one of the industry's favourite awards events was right to anticipate another record breaking number of votes and Bener Law Office has been declared as the category winner for Eastern European Law Firm of the Year.  

Bener Law Office has been granted the Mondaq Award "December 2008" for the most popular article in Turkey: "Amendments to the laws regarding real estate acquisition in Turkey by a foreign capital company".

For access to the article please go to "Publications".