Interview with: Meri̇ç Paldimoğlu, Managing Partner

Managing Partner Meriç Paldımoğlu outlines how Paldımoğlu Law Firm builds on its partner-led practice by integrating AI-supported workflows and commercial insight to deliver scalable and outcome-driven legal solutions for cross-border clients.

 

What do you see as the main points that differentiate Paldımoglu Law Firm from your competitors?

What differentiates Paldımoğlu Law Firm is our ability to combine strategic legal judgment with efficiency, accessibility, and a strong commercial mindset. We operate as a fully partner-led practice, ensuring that clients work directly with decision-makers who remain personally involved throughout the matter. This structure allows us to act quickly, maintain clear accountability, and provide a level of accessibility that clients particularly value in complex and time-sensitive matters.

We actively integrate technology and AI-supported workflows, together with carefully selected external expertise, to deliver timely and cost-effective legal solutions without compromising quality. Our operational structure enables us to handle a significant workload within short timeframes while maintaining precision and control. Clients are kept fully informed through structured and periodic reporting, ensuring transparency and predictability throughout the process.

Beyond legal compliance, our advice is driven by a strong commercial perspective. We guide clients toward business models that are fully compliant with Turkish regulatory requirements, while significantly reducing upfront investment costs and improving return on investment. By reassessing regulatory constraints and restructuring operations through compliant alternative structures and strategic outsourcing, we help clients avoid unnecessary capital expenditure and build scalable, profit-oriented businesses.

A defining element of our practice is the firm’s focus on high-quality, persuasive legal drafting, supported by a partner-led review structure. This ensures that all written work meets a consistent strategic and legal standard before being finalized, strengthening our clients’ legal position in both advisory and contentious matters.

In litigation matters, the firm has achieved a success rate exceeding 95%, reflecting a disciplined approach based on early legal assessment, procedural precision, and prioritizing measurable outcomes for the client over high-volume, procedural litigation.

Finally, our commercially driven approach—particularly in debt collection and enforcement—allows us to apply innovative and lesser-known recovery strategies. By combining legal precision with commercial insight, we consistently aim to maximize recovery results and deliver tangible financial outcomes for our clients.

 

Which practices do you see growing in the next 12 months? What are the drivers behind that?

Over the next 12 months, we expect continued growth in cross-border corporate structuring, foreign direct investment advisory, and commercial litigation. One of the key drivers behind this trend is the increasing accessibility of global market information, supported by AI-driven research tools, which enables entrepreneurs and investors to identify and act on international opportunities more quickly than before.

As a result, we are seeing a growing number of clients exploring company formation, operational structuring, and investment opportunities across multiple jurisdictions, including Turkey. This trend is particularly evident among entrepreneurs and small to mid-sized businesses seeking flexible, asset-light business models and international expansion.

In parallel, we expect sustained growth in investment-based immigration and citizenship-related work, as clients increasingly view geographic mobility, alternative residency options, and international structuring as part of broader business and risk-management strategies.

Finally, the increase in new business formations and cross-border activity is naturally leading to a rise in commercial disputes, particularly in shareholder conflicts, contractual disputes, and enforcement-related matters. This is driving further demand for strategic commercial litigation support focused on dispute prevention, early assessment, and efficient resolution.

 

What’s the main change you’ve made in the firm that will benefit clients?

One of the most significant changes we have made is the integration of AI-supported systems into our internal workflows, allowing us to reduce reliance on repetitive junior-level tasks while strengthening partner-level oversight and strategic input.

By automating time-consuming and routine processes, we are able to deliver faster, more accurate, and more cost-effective legal solutions, while ensuring that all substantive legal analysis, strategy, and decision-making remain firmly at partner level.

This shift has improved efficiency and consistency across matters, reduced turnaround times, and enhanced overall quality control, ultimately allowing clients to benefit from senior-level legal judgment without unnecessary layers of cost or delay.

 

Is technology changing the way you interact with your clients, and the services you can provide them?

Yes, technology has significantly changed both how we interact with our clients and the scope of services we are able to provide. The integration of AI-supported tools into our legal research and document review processes has substantially reduced turnaround times, allowing us to deliver high-quality legal analysis more efficiently and at a more competitive cost.

By automating routine research and data-intensive tasks, we enable partners to focus directly on legal evaluation, strategy, and client communication. This results in faster access to well-considered solutions, clearer advice, and more consistent outcomes for clients.

Technology has also improved accessibility and communication. Clients benefit from more responsive interaction, clearer reporting, and the ability to receive timely updates and guidance without unnecessary procedural delays. Overall, technology allows us to combine speed and cost efficiency with senior-level legal judgment, improving both the client experience and the quality of service delivered.

 

Can you give us a practical example of how you have helped a client to add value to their business?

In one cross-border investment matter, a client initially planned to enter the Turkish market through a highly regulated and capital-intensive business structure, which would have required significant upfront investment, licensing, and long-term fixed costs.

Rather than proceeding with the default model, we conducted a detailed legal and regulatory assessment and advised the client on an alternative, fully compliant operating structure that allowed the core commercial activity to be carried out through strategic partnerships and outsourcing.

This approach enabled the client to avoid substantial capital expenditure related to infrastructure, staffing, and regulatory approvals, while still lawfully operating in the Turkish market. As a result, the client achieved rapid market entry, significantly reduced operating costs, and built a scalable business model.

The revenues generated from the Turkish operations were subsequently used to expand the business into multiple jurisdictions, leading to a significant increase in overall business volume. This matter illustrates our ability to combine legal structuring with commercial strategy to deliver measurable and long-term value for our clients.

 

Are clients looking for stability and strategic direction from their law firms – where do you see the firm in three years’ time?

Clients today are increasingly looking for stability, predictability, and strategic direction from their law firms, particularly when operating in unfamiliar or high-risk legal environments. In our experience, clients no longer seek reactive legal support; they expect their law firm to anticipate risk, provide clear legal roadmaps, and support long-term commercial decision-making.

We have structured our practice accordingly, positioning the firm as a long-term legal partner rather than a transactional service provider. Our focus is on delivering legally sound and commercially practical solutions that allow clients to operate in Turkey with confidence.

In three years’ time, we see the firm as a leading boutique practice focusing on cross-border corporate, investment, and commercial litigation matters in Turkey, particularly for foreign investors and internationally active companies. Our objective is to be recognized for our ability to manage complex disputes, structure investments effectively, and provide strategic legal guidance in high-value and high-stakes matters.