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Mr Ergun Ersoy

+90 212 213 23 00 eersoy@ersoybilgehan.com

Work Department

• Maritime, Shipping & Transport
• Insurance & Re-insurance
• Litigation & Arbitration
• Aviation
• Telecommunication

Position

Senior Partner

Career

Ergun had served as a Master Mariner in the Turkish Navy for 10 years and holds an Oceangoing Master’s License. After leaving the Navy, he qualified as a lawyer and started practicing maritime law. Ergun has more than 30 years of experience as a maritime lawyer focusing on admiralty law, collisions, salvage, general average, pollution, charter party and bills of lading disputes. His main clientele includes ship owners, charterers, P&I clubs, H&M underwriters and salvors.

Ergun represented clients in the vast majority of the maritime accidents and collisions in the Turkish Straits including almost all catastrophic events, some of which were MT “Independenta” c/w MV “Evriali” (1979), MV “Gediz” (General Average) (1989), MV “Cavlibey” c/w MV “Pasabahce” (1991), MV “Rabunion 18” c/w MV “Madonna Lily” (1991), MV “Rabunion 14” c/w MV “Bazias I” (1992), MV “Khudoznik Gerasimov” (fire in Tuzla shipyard) (1993), MT “Nassia” c/w MV “Shipbroker” (1994), MV “Shipbroker” c/w MT “Nassia” (1994), MV “Gu Yuan Hai” c/w MV “Barbaros Oktay” (1995), MT “Gole” (explosion and fire in shipyard) (1997), MV “Caldiron” c/w MV “Guitara Sea” (1998),  MV “Kaptan Osman Bahri” c/w MT “Omerli” (1998), MV “Shipka” c/w “Semele” (1999), MV “Blue Bold” (General Average) (2000), MV “Modisk 3” c/w MV “Yeni Besiktas 2” (2002), MV “Challenger” c/w MV “Fatih N” (2002), MV “Hera” – (sank in Black Sea with cargo; 21 crew lost) (2004), MV “Strontsiy” – (Grand salvage) (2004), MV “Panagia” (hijacking by pirates and general average) (2005), MV “Fatsa B” (classification society liability) (2005), MV “Iran Madani” c/w MV “Hacı İbrahim” (2006), MT “Cape Bird” (collision) (2006), MV “Turgut Kocabaş” c/w MV “Zinnet Mete” (2007), MV “Ofmar” (cargo claim) (2013).

Ergun  continues to lead the maritime team in the cases including MV “Ever Judger” (cargo claim) (2014), MV “Latmar” (cargo claim) (2015), MV “Lady Aziza” c/w MV “Gokbel” (2015), MV “Yusuf Cepnioglu” (cargo claims)  (2015), MV “Ak Ceren” (collision) (2015), MV “Celestyal Crystal” (collision) (2015), MV “Menelaos” c/w MV “Ata” (2017), MV “Aileen” c/w MV “Scandia” (collision) (2018), MV “Persenk” c/w MV “Ahmet Can” (2019), MV “Doric Warrior” c/w MV “Mammad Amin Resulzadeh”  (2019), MV “Oguz Sofuoglu” (salvage and general average) (2019), MT “Syn Zania” (Fire in PETKIM Port) (2019), MV “Songa Iridium” (grounding and salvage) (2020).

He was also one of the few select individuals who advised in the drafting the Statute on Maritime Traffic Order for the Turkish Straits.

Languages

Turkish
English

Memberships

• Admitted to Istanbul Bar
• Turkish Maritime Law Association (Co-founder)
• Insurance Law Turkish Association
• Oceangoing Shipmasters Association
• Better Justice Association (Co-founder)

Education

• LL.B., Istanbul University, 1983
• Navigation and Ship Propulsion Systems, Post-Graduate, 1975
• Naval Academy, 1974