Interview with: Serhat Veyisoğlu, Partner

Partner Serhat Veyisoğlu shares insights on how the firm delivers practical, business-focused solutions in an increasingly complex regulatory environment.

What do you see as the main points that differentiate EVG Attorney Partnership from your competitors?

The most important factor that sets EVG Attorney Partnership apart from its competitors is our ability to combine our strong legal expertise with practical and applicable solutions that are aligned with our clients’ business objectives. We approach legal consulting not merely as risk management, but as strategic support that adds value to business operations.

Our law firms experience and know-how over the markets it practices adds value to its works. We do not only provide legal comments but also provide comments on commercial matters and share market practices. We believe that what we do matters: Our profession not only enables us to add value in the businesses of our clients, it also let us create a positive impact on personal, professional, social, and economic level in general as well. Thus, we devote utmost care and effort in performance of our services in the light of professional ethics and excellence. With our expertise in Turkish law and international practices, we do offer a combined team that is perfect in balance, experience and expertise.

Our firm provides comprehensive support to clients in various areas, including corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, competition law, intellectual property, dispute resolution, and regulatory matters. By integrating our teams with different areas of expertise, we are able to produce comprehensive and effective solutions to complex and multi-dimensional legal needs. Our experience in both local and international transactions creates trusted and strong value for our clients.

Accessibility, prompt response, and transparent communication are key priorities in our client relationships. Our partners’ direct and hands-on involvement in cases ensures the consistency of our service quality while enabling us to adopt a thorough and results-oriented approach that is tailored to each case. Finally, with our dynamic team structure, adherence to ethical values, and technology-supported approach to work, we provide our clients with sustainable and high value-added services by quickly responding to legal developments.

 

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

Over the next 12 months, we expect mergers and acquisitions, start-up and venture capital transactions, media and technology law, and energy and project finance practices to continue to grow. Companies’ strategies for growth, expansion and strengthening their market position are increasing interest in M&A transactions and strategic partnerships. At the same time, the maturing of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, the spread of technology-based business models and ongoing investor interest are reinforcing legal demand for start-up transactions.

The acceleration of digitalization in the media sector, the increasing diversity of content production, and the expansion of the platform economy is creating more complex legal needs in the areas of intellectual property, data protection,
competition law, and regulatory compliance. Furthermore, the increased global visibility of trademarks and content creators is also increasing cross-border legal processes in this area.

Investments in renewable energy projects, energy transition policies, and sustainability-focused financing models, energy law, and project development practices position the energy sector as one of the most dynamic areas in the near future. The increasing regulatory framework and large-scale infrastructure projects also support the need for legal advice in this
area. Despite market uncertainties, investment enthusiasm continues, technological transformation accelerates, and the trend toward cross-sector consolidation strengthens, all of which increases the need for multidisciplinary and strategic legal support. In this context, we believe that start-ups, media, energy, and mergers and acquisitions will be among the fastest growing and most value-adding areas over the coming year.

 

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

The most significant transformation we have implemented in our office recently is the restructuring of our organizational structure into two main departments: Litigation and Corporate. While we have to different main departments, we also encourage them to cooperate each other so that each department can import know-how from the other practice. With this restructuring, we aim to achieve deeper specialization in both areas, make process management more systematic, and provide our clients with more focused and high-quality services. On the other hand, cooperation brings foresight to each department, where corporate department may see the outcome of any possible dispute when they draft an agreement or advise on a matter. Our Corporate department now operates with a more integrated and transaction-focused structure in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, investment transactions, finance, contracts, and corporate law.

Meanwhile, our Litigation department has developed stronger representation and strategy capabilities in commercial litigation, arbitration, enforcement and bankruptcy, administrative disputes, and regulatory processes. This structural change has not only strengthened our organizational structure but also significantly improved client experience. Having cases handled by specialized teams enables deeper and more accurate legal analysis, while contributing to shorter response times and faster decision-making processes. At the same time, close cooperation between the Corporate and Litigation teams allows us to generate more proactive, risk-focused, and sustainable solutions, particularly in high-volume transactions, investment processes, and projects involving potential dispute risks.

By further increasing partner participation alongside departmentalization, we have established a higher-level governance model in strategic decision-making processes. Furthermore, through our investments in technology-supported business processes, we have made file tracking, reporting, and internal communication mechanisms more transparent, predictable, and efficient. We believe that this transformation offers our clients not only faster and technically robust service, but also a more strategic, commercially aligned, and long-term value-creating legal advisory experience.

 

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

Technology is increasingly transforming the way we communicate with our clients and the scope of the legal services we provide. Thanks to digital communication methods, secure document sharing systems, and technology-supported file management, we can manage processes more quickly, transparently, and efficiently, enabling us to offer our clients a more predictable and effective service. We also use artificial intelligence-powered legal research and contract review tools, enabling us to perform faster and
more accurate analysis, particularly in complex areas such as mergers and acquisitions, start-up transactions, media projects, and energy investments. With advanced due diligence processes, automation-supported documentation, and real-time reporting capabilities, we provide a stronger contribution to our clients’ decision-making processes.

We do invest and create our own AI powered legal research and office management program. Our technology investments offer significant advantages in terms of speed, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness, as well as improving the quality of our services. We believe this transformation provides our clients with more modern, proactive, and high-value legal advisory experience.

 

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

Recently, within the scope of a large-scale energy project carried out by a US public institution client, we provided comprehensive legal consultancy in the process of structuring, preparing, and negotiating the project. During the project, equipment suppliers offered certain conditions which were not within the market practice and also tried to benefit from the lack of technical experience of our client. We have insisted on market practice conditions and designed the contract which is beneficial to the client and also eligible to financing.

In the meantime, we have identified the technical disadvantages and warned the client to consider those disadvantages during the commercial and technical negotiations. By actively participating during the negotiation process, we increased our client’s power to negotiate, minimized potential
areas of liability, and established contractual mechanisms that will provide commercial flexibility over the long term. This example demonstrates that our legal advisory services not only manage legal risks but also provide strategic contributions that tangibly increase our clients’ business value.

 

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

We clearly observe that our clients expect not only strong technical expertise from law firms, but also stability, foresight, and strategic guidance during this period of increasing uncertainty and rapid change in the business world. In accordance with this expectation, we have positioned ourselves as a reliable strategic business partner that contributes to our clients’ long-term goals, going beyond legal consultancy.

Over the next three years, we aim to further strengthen our Corporate and Litigation departments, with a focus on deepening our expertise in our key areas of focus, such as capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, start-up
transactions, media and technology projects, and energy investments. At the same time, we aim to expand our international partnerships and become more visible and stronger in cross-border transactions and disputes.

By continuing our technology investments, we will keep making our processes more efficient, transparent, and faster. Through data-driven working methods, automation-supported workflows, and advanced communication infrastructure, we aim to provide our clients with more proactive and predictable services. Strengthening our corporate structure, investing in capacity development, and maintaining our high service standards are also key elements of our growth strategy.

Our goal within three years is to stand out as a law firm that offers not only high transaction volume, but also service quality, professional expertise, and client satisfaction. We aim to build a structure that is recognized as a reliable
solution partner for both local and international clients, with a strong brand image in the Corporate and Litigation fields and has become a reference point in specific sectors (such as start-ups, media, energy, and mergers &
acquisitions). At the same time, we aim to achieve a long-term leadership position in the sector by strengthening our corporate culture, creating a preferred working environment for qualified lawyers, and implementing a management approach focused on sustainable growth and ethical standards.