Mr Hasan Akicioglu > Goksu Safi Isik Attorney Partnership > Istanbul, Turkey > Lawyer Profile

Goksu Safi Isik Attorney Partnership
iTOWER BOMONTI, MERKEZ MAHALLESI
AKAR CADDESI NO:3 KAT:27
SISLI, 34381 ISTANBUL
Turkey

Position

Senior Managing Partner

Career

Having been with GSI since its foundation, Mr Hasan Akicioglu has been serving as the managing partner since the beginning of 2013. Before he was promoted to senior managing partner, he was leading one of the corporate departments of GSI and supervising thirteen lawyers as a Partner. Prior to joining GSI, he was associated with an international consultancy firm operating in Turkey, where he focused on corporate and commercial law, real estate, M&A and energy projects. Having a professional experience of fifteen years, he is specialized on corporate and commercial law, international commercial arbitration, energy law, privatisation, media law and construction and real estate law. In addition to practicing law in domestic issues and advising multinationals on their investments in Turkey, he has also been involved in various cross-border transactions regarding real estate, M&A hydropower plants and natural gas projects in Kazakhstan, Georgia, Ukraine, Egypt and Northern Iraq and therefore has extensive knowledge and understanding of the nature and structure of cross-border transactions.

Languages

English.

Memberships

İstanbul Bar Association

Education

Kocaeli University, (1999 LLB), Turkey; LLM in International Commercial Law, Valparaiso University, USA (2003).

Lawyer Rankings

Turkey > Commercial, corporate and M&A

The team at Goksu Safi Isik Attorney Partnership advises Turkish businesses across such industries as construction, real estate, tech, manufacturing, energy, agriculture, on transactional and everyday matters. The practice is led by senior managing partner Hasan Akicioglu, who specialises in cross-border energy projects; Mutlu Ozturk Yurdakul, who handles, among other transactions, M&A, joint ventures and distribution agreements; Emre Ulcayli, whose transactional experience includes share purchase and asset transfer agreements; Başak Goksu Sari, who brings strength to airline industry matters; and Ecem Evin Baytun.