Mr Doğan Coşgun > ASC Law Office > Istanbul, Turkey > Lawyer Profile
ASC Law Office Offices
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34410 ISTANBUL
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Mr Doğan Coşgun
Work Department
Dispute Resolution Department
(i.e., the Litigation Team and Debt Collection & Enforcement Team)
Position
Managing Partner
Career
Doğan Coşgun, who has practiced law for 25 years, joined ASC Law in 2017 to head its Dispute Resolution Department. Doğan – along with Founding Partners Murat Aksu, Zeki Çalışkan and Okan Beygo – is a key member of the most experienced, and successful, senior law firm leadership teams in Turkey.
Since joining the firm, Doğan has spearheaded efforts resulting in a sharp increase in the number, and complexity, of the disputes matters the firm handles, including complex arbitration engagements. These developments have resulted in a several fold increase in the total amount of damages at issue in the matters ASC Law handles. Doğan’s Dispute Resolution Department now has approximately 5,000 active matters, and its approxiamtely 50 lawyers make some 100 court appearances each week.
Before joining ASC Law, Doğan practiced inhouse at several leading Turkish companies, most recently as Chief Legal Officer of Türk Telecom. During these 20-plus years, Doğan has worked on, or managed lawyers working on, nearly every type of business dispute imaginable, experience at the core of his success at ASC Law.
Doğan has been recognized by The Legal 500 as a “Leading Individual” in Turkish Dispute Resolution.
ASC Law, Managing Partner (2017-Present)
Turk Telekom, Chief Legal Officer (2014–2017)
Avea, Chief Legal Officer (2011–2014)
Turkuvaz Medya Grubu, Chief Legal Officer (2008–2011)
Yildiz Holding (2000–2008)
Languages
Turkish, English, Spanish
Memberships
Istanbul Bar, and International Bar Association
Education
LL.M., Marmara University Faculty of Law, Private Law, 2003
LL.B., Istanbul University Faculty of Law, 1996
Lawyer Rankings
Turkey > Dispute resolution
(Leading individuals)ASC Law Office
’s increasingly dominant dispute resolution group was engaged on several high-profile cases over the past year, demonstrating particular growth in domestic and international arbitrations. Managing partner Doğan Coşgun heads the overarching dispute resolution department and is recommended for both judicial and arbitral disputes. The group also includes Kemal Tağa, who is the key contact for complex commercial disputes; local litigation head Cem Keser; and Çağla Şahin Aksu, who leads the debt collection and enforcement team. Senior associate Hilal Bayar and of counsel Mark Skilling left the firm in May and August 2023 respectively.