Gen Temizer > Istanbul, Turkey > Firm Profile

‘Gen Temize Özer is one of the great legal teams that distinguishes itself with the partner time allocated to the transactions.’

‘Baran Gen is a very dedicated and committed lawyer who strives to get the best result practically achievable.’

‘Edmund Emre Özer is responsive, knowledgeable, with a deep understanding of the UK and Turkish markets.’

‘They understand the needs and act quickly. They have a good expertise on their field. They are always available.’

‘With an experienced background, and a hands-on and efficient approach in negotiating as well as creating value-add to the clients, GTO’s team has demonstrated in numerous projects we have worked on together that they can bring perspective and success.’

‘Partners are fully committed and display hands-on approach in the projects.’

‘Team is known in the market for its excellent M&A practice. We are impressed by strength in depth of team covering both international deals as well as local Turkish corporate transactions. We have worked with the team on both types of deals and been very impressed by their capabilities.’

‘Emre Özer is very responsive, considered and practical in his advice. A trusted advisor capable of delivering excellent results.’

‘GTO has excellent cross-border deal capabilities. They have a strong team of lawyers able to handle different aspects of international transactions in financing, commercial contracts, or M&A.’

‘Emre Edmund Ozer has excellent abilities with international transactions with his UK background. He has top tier drafting and negotiation skills, which is highly valuable for larger scale transactions.’

‘The team stands out for its deep legal experience. They are also flexible and easy to access.’

‘All individuals at GTO are very highly qualified, very experienced, and open-minded people. Emre Özer is very humble, easy to access, hardworking, and smart.’

‘All of the team members are hardworking lawyers. The partners have a very strong problem-solving attitude, and they are good at negotiations. Being a part of an international chain of lawyers is also another advantage of the team.’

‘The partners are very knowledgeable and are hands on project leaders. They are also very responsive and revert to queries in a timely manner. Moreover, they have very strong negotiation skills and problem-solving attitudes.’

‘They have good expertise in their field.’

‘Gen Temizer Özer has a diligent team that is practical and result orientated.’

‘Baran Gen is a highly skilled lawyer.’

‘Gen Temizer Özer has an excellent cross-border practice with strong capability to oversee complex project finance projects and other projects for our group.’

‘Edmund Emre Özer has acted as our trusted counsel over many years. He is an excellent counsel with a UK background. He has top-tier drafting and negotiation skills which is a key asset for international projects.’

‘Our key contact, managing partner Edmund Emre Özer, is well versed in both English and Turkish law. Together with his knowledge regarding the industry sector, he and his firm is our go-to firm regarding complex situations.’

‘Edmund Emre Özer is an exceptional individual. We also had the pleasure of working with Ömer Erdoğan, his insight regarding our trade financing project was very valuable. He was able to use his experience extremely well for helping us structure our hybrid-financing project.’

‘Ömer Erdogan has extensive knowledge regarding project finance, to which he can transfer to trade finance projects.’

‘The team has a good knowledge of this area. Lawyers are capable of making comments and finding alternative solutions to blocked issues.’

‘Baran Gen stands out for his ability to quickly respond to the legal queries of our company. He presents complex legal issues in an easy and understandable manner.’

‘Very experienced and professional team with excellent resources who are all a pleasure to work with. The team is available 24/7 and its efficiency and quality of advice is quite impressive.’

‘Ömer Erdoğan is an incredibly knowledgeable and, most importantly, always accessible and available professional, who can always offer alternative ways to tackle a problem. Gizem Esen is very quick to respond and a great project manager.’

‘We first hired Gen Temizer Özer in 2013 after working as lender for a client of theirs on a project financing and we were impressed by their work on the other side of the table. We appreciate its expertise in project financings, especially in renewables. It is a deal-focused firm that is led from the front by the partners.’

‘Edmund Emre Özer has a UK background, which we appreciate for our cross-border financing. He is a great lawyer to work with and has a calm and constructive style of working.’

‘Baran Gen combines first-class legal knowledge with practical deal-making skills. She puts the focus on the transaction to ensure that it gets done in the right way.’

‘Mert Elcin has been doing excellent work for us and is closely involved in our matters.’

‘Gen Temizer Özer combines English law and Turkish law capacity together with precious M&A experience. The team’s ethical and commercial standards are admirable.’

‘All three partners, Baran Gen, Ebru Temizer and Edmund Emre Özer, are very good. Their senior associates are also on the rise.’

‘Bulut Girgin is very responsive, proactive and helpful. He gives practical advice.’

‘The Gen Temizer Özer competition law team lead by Bulut Girgin is excellent. It provides very pragmatic and well-founded competition law advice.’

‘Bulut Girgin possesses expertise in all competition matters. He is extremely responsive and very pragmatic in his approach. Clients like working with Bulut. At the associate level, Simru Tayfun stands out with excellent competition law expertise.’

‘Simru Tayfun is an expert in competition filing.’

‘Bulut Girgin is always available and ready to support. His commercial sense provides added-value to the service.’

‘Ebru Temizer not only proved to perfectly understand the company’s concerns and needs from the outset, but showed a deep and solid understanding of corporate, real estate and dispute resolution laws. She is very clear in her explanations and efficient and professional in her work.’

‘Ebru Temizer is fantastic. Her ability to think outside the box and come up with alternative solutions when it appeared an unwinnable situation was priceless for us.’

‘We work with Ebru Temizer, and I totally respect her knowledge, patience and politeness in every case we face.’

‘In my experience, their international arbitration skills are very exceptional. They are very client-oriented and cooperate with outside counsels very closely to reach the best results.’

‘Ömer Erdoğan is the leading counsel in the arbitration practice. I had the pleasure of working with him on some high-stakes arbitration cases. Ömer stepped beyond his boundaries and supported my legal team in local Turkish law, as well as international rules and regulations, with professionalism.’

‘Gen & Temizer Ozer is stellar, in particular Edmund Emre Özer. The team is responsive, practical and comprised of real experts in their fields.’

‘GTO has a strong team with extensive experience on Turkish law matters.’