Solak & Partners Law Firm

Technology and Finance Law

Managing Partner

Elçin Karatay is a corporate lawyer specialized in corporate law, public and private company M&A, joint ventures and IPOs. Being a legal multidisciplinary lawyer, she also advises clients on their IP law and employment law related legal issues.

As a separate focus area, with her objective to provide legal services on new unexamined areas of technology and law, and advising start-ups and technology companies, Elçin Karatay works intensively on creating legal structures for new technological developments.

Following her career at Pekin&Pekin, she has started working  as Managing Partner at Solak&Partners Law Firm as of Dec. 2017

Representative Matters

- Negotiation of technology and software contracts with a total value of 100 million USD in the last year

-Completion of more than 20 M&A

- Legal advice in 3 of Turkey’s largest crypto asset issuances

- Legal advice to more than 30 projects and companied working on blockchain and crypto assets

- Trainings at several state institutions and ministries, entities and organizations such as TÜBİTAK, BTK, FinTR

Turkish, English

- Istanbul Bar Association

- FinTR Board Member

- IR Global

- International Bar Assocation

- ITU Seed, BAU Blockchain Center as a Mentor

- ARYA Women Investment Platform

- Galatasaray University, Ph.D. in Private Law – Pending (2022-2026)

- Galatasaray University, LL.M. in Private Law – Thesis: “Review of American Law based Simple Agreement for Future Equity under Turkish Law” (2016)

- Koç University, Bachelor of Law (2014)

- Koc University, Minor Economics (2014)