Gülsen Engin > Çakmak Attorney Partnership > Ankara, Turkey > Lawyer Profile

Çakmak Attorney Partnership‘s employment practice regularly serves multinational and domestic corporations, foreign consulates, and embassies. In addition to advising on employment contracts and compliance, the team handles a steady flow of employment disputes and litigation. Zeynep Çakmak frequently manages settlement procedures and labour law disputes, while Mesut Çakmak has extensive experience in complex employment-transactional matters. Gülsen Engin and Elif Demiröz both bring deep expertise in unionisation processes and related litigation.

Çakmak Attorney Partnership remains highly active in heavily regulated markets, assisting clients with permit applications, government communications, and navigating existing regulatory requirements. Data privacy issues and compliance due diligence for M&A transactions are key areas of focus for the team. S. Mustafa Durakoğlu guides clients through the intricate regulatory frameworks of the banking, payment services, and TMT sectors. Gülsen Engin supports clients affected by complex trading sanctions and assists with internal investigations.

The ‘thorough and diligent’ team at longstanding independent full-service firm Çakmak Attorney Partnership provides ‘solid and reliable’ advice to international and domestic corporates, often acting in a trusted adviser role, across the full panoply of their transactional and operational needs. Although it is well-versed at handling mandates across a myriad industries, it has over the years gained particular acclaim for its work in the energy/infrastructure space. Team head Gülsen Engin provides ‘high quality and sharp’ advice on domestic and cross-border M&A matters’, and excels at advising on corporate governance issues.

Çakmak Attorney Partnership is known for providing ‘solid and reliable legal advice’, particularly on matters of corporate and financial restructuring. Practice heads Ayşe Eda Biçer Özen, who handles litigation and project finance, the corporate-focused Gülşen Engin, and tax litigation and restructuring specialist Elif Demiröz are ‘thorough and diligent’. Özen and Mesut Çakmak recently assisted an international petroleum company with the liquidation of its Turkish branch.