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Client testimonial

CLIENT: Gary Webster (Owner, CEO)
COMPANY/FIRM: Davjet Ltd.
TESTIMONIAL: The SSI team are extremely strong. They have vast experience in aviation and many other sectors. They are very “user friendly” and have always given us as clients such dedication being very responsive and punctual. We enjoy working with them because they understand the business and our needs very well which make it easy to proceed with our operations rather than getting stuck with legal matters. The team has excellent contract drafting and negotiation skills. Also their legal advice is reliable and they always provide alternative solutions to legal problems. Working with such a dynamic and professional team is a pleasure.

CLIENT: Elif Çoban (Shareholder, Board Member and CEO)
COMPANY/FIRM: Şölen Çikolata
TESTIMONIAL: SSI is a successful law firm with experienced and dynamic lawyers. Their firm, by combining deep sectoral knowledge and refreshingly creative thinking, provides a full range of legal services particularly on all areas of private law, contract law; and supports our company on dispute resolution, and administrative issues before courts and administrative authorities in Turkey. Moreover, SSI has very good balance of legal and commercial skills.

SSI always act in accordance with their core values for rendering their service competently, efficiently, and creatively with an international business-mind. These values are the foundation and the driving force of their success.

With the qualified problem-solving skills and solid knowledge of their team, their objective is to render high-standard legal services to our company. Furthermore, the ethical principles and values of accuracy, transparency and independence, shared by all the staff, allied with the excellence of services provided, are the true foundation of their Firm.

We are pleased to work with SSI’s reliable, hardworking, and dependable lawyers.

CLIENT: Ceyda Akbal Tarhan (General Counsel)
COMPANY/FIRM: TAV Airports Holding
TESTIMONIAL: Very dedicated legal team having a strong knowledge particularly on commercial and corporate law providing a vast experience on contract drafting. They are very strong on contract negotiations always concentrated on finding solutions with a businesslike approach. Their responsiveness is very impressive and their cooperative approach makes them always a demanded law firm specially for fast moving sectors like aviation.

CLIENT: Murat Çeçen
COMPANY/FIRM: CCN Holding (Owner, CEO)
TESTIMONIAL: SSI has as a full-service practice. They have a powerful team of lawyers, who perform their work to a very high standard. All of the team members have the knowledge and ability to represent us well. They all are quite professional, up to the details and also very knowledgeable in many and different legal fields. The team is very fast to identify the legal needs and issues, they provide pragmatic and practical advice with an excellent quality work result.

CLIENT: Bimen Kadiroğlu
COMPANY/FIRM: Lyksor by Kale (Shareholder, Board Member and CEO)
TESTIMONIAL: SSI has assisted me in my share sale transaction to Kalekim. Through the whole process, including drafting of the relevant share purchase and shareholders’ agreements and conducting relevant negotiations, I received excellent representation. They even assisted me with matters which were not in their original work scope.  Working with them in this transaction actually reminded me how important it is to work with the right consultants in a given sector. I am grateful to have worked with them and I intend to continue working with them in all of our legal needs.

Diversity

SSI Law Firm believes that supporting diversity is not a choice but rather a prerequisite to build an environment where all human rights are acknowledged and respected. As SSI Law Firm prioritizes investing in people above anything else, our approach to diversity is not limited to recruiting people from diverse backgrounds and statuses but it also includes investing everyone equally under SSI’s roof. For us, a diverse environment means a treasure of different opinions which naturally allows us to be more innovative and more diligent in the way we conduct our services.

In SSI Law Firm, we built an inclusive environment where anyone, including our counsels, associates, interns, staff, clients, suppliers truly feel a sense of belonging. Under SSI’s roof, we leave no space and have zero tolerance for bias. We always make sure that all the voices are heard and everyone feels safe to speak up and that everyone has the opportunity to be truly themselves while they contribute to the ultimate success and excellence of SSI family.

We welcome and provide equal opportunity to everyone irrespective of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, disability, socio-economic status, educational background, marital status, age or any other statuses. The top priority in our recruitment policy is to always keep our firm as inclusive as possible.

To be able to reflect our commitment to the diversity and inclusion to our practice and internal procedures, during our quarterly internal meetings we develop new diversity and inclusion plans and set goals to challenge ourselves. One of our last resolutions is using gender-neutral language in every text we create including our internal and external correspondences, legal opinions, agreements and policies.

International Capabilities

We are able to represent our local or foreign clients for their cross-border transactions. At Şenol & Şahin & Ilgın we have team members who have experience working in different jurisdictions such as:

• England and Wales,
• UAE,
• Sweden,
• Holland,
• Belgium,
• Thailand,
• Singapore,

We also have law firms in our network at these locations which we cooperate with on a regular basis that allows us to handle the requested task by saving our clients’ time and money with the previous working experience and strong relations we have with our cooperation firms.

For example, we are currently acting as the lead counsel for the sale of several aircraft in Thailand to our UK based client governed by the laws of Thailand.

At Şenol & Şahin & Ilgın, we have lawyers fluent in English, French and Turkish.