Erdem & Erdem Law Office

Dispute Resolution, Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions, Competition and Antitrust

Founder and Senior Partner

Ercüment Erdem is the founder and senior partner of Erdem & Erdem. He has more than 40 years of experience in arbitration, international commercial law, competition & antitrust, mergers & acquisitions, privatizations and corporate finance. He serves international and national clients in a variety of industries including energy, construction, finance, retail, real estate, port operation as well as healthcare.

He has acted as chairman and sole or party-appointed arbitrator in many international and national arbitrations under different rules including ICC Arbitration, Swiss Arbitration, Moscow Arbitration, UNCITRAL Arbitration, Tehran Arbitration and ad hoc arbitrations and is, furthermore, distinguished in this field. 

He is a commercial law professor lecturing in leading universities such as Galatasaray University in Türkiye and Fribourg University in Switzerland. He has over 40 years of experience as a scholar and is the author of reference books on international trade law, competition law, mergers and acquisitions, commercial enterprise law, CIF sales, bonds, contracts etc. He is fluent in English, French and Turkish.

Ercüment Erdem is a member of the Istanbul Bar Association, Chairman of the ICC Commercial Law and Practice Commission, an emeritus member of the ICC Institute Council, a former member of the ICC Court of Arbitration, a member of the ICC Incoterms Experts Group and the ICC Turkish National Committee Arbitration Court. In addition to these memberships, he actively participates in many working groups of the ICC. He is also a member of the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA), the Istanbul Arbitration Center (ISTAC), the International Bar Association (IBA), the Henri Capitant Association of Friends of French Legal Culture and the Banking and Commercial Law Research Institute. He was also appointed as a judge of the European Nuclear Energy Tribunal (ENET).

Turkish, English, French, German

Istanbul Bar Association

Member of the ICC Commercial Law and Practice Commission

Former Chair of the ICC Commercial Law and Practice Commission (2019-2025)

Emeritus Member of ICC Institute Council

Former Member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration

ICC Arbitration Commission

ICC Incoterms Experts Group

ICC Turkish National Committee Arbitration Council

Association Henri Capitant des Amis de la Culture Juridique Française

Advisory Council of Banking and Commercial Law Research Institute

Advisory Board Member of Istanbul Arbitration Centre (ISTAC)

Association Suisse de l’Arbitrage (ASA)

International Bar Association (IBA)

Judge at the European Nuclear Energy Tribunal

• Commercial Law Professor (2003)

• Commercial Law Associate Professor (1997)

• Research on American Law at Yale Law School (1993)

• Doctorate in Switzerland Fribourg University (Manga Cum Laude) (1988-1990)

• Ankara University Institute of Social Sciences, Private Law LL.M. (1984-1986)

• Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Law (1981-1984)

• Istanbul University, Faculty of Law (1980-1981)

• Galatasaray High School (1976-1980)