Best known for intellectual property disputes, Gün + Partners also has a broad litigation and arbitration practice that is ‘experienced and supportive’. Founding partner Mehmet Gün has a wealth of experience in local and international litigation, arbitration and mediation. He is ably supported by civil litigation specialist Aysel Korkmaz Yatkın and Beril Yayla Sapan, whose work encompasses cases concerning unfair competition, distribution relationships, and corporate structures, alongside complex debt collection proceedings. Also in the core team, Asena Aytuğ Keser is ’responsive and gives helpful advice’.
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Asena Aytuğ Keser has been with the firm since 2011 and is a managing associate. Her practice focuses on dispute management; business crime and anti-corruption; employment; insurance and reinsurance; administrative, tax and regulatory and construction and real estate.
Asena advises and represents both national and international clients in various commercial and corporate disputes before courts and arbitral tribunals, including high profile compensation cases, M&A and shareholders disputes, real estate and construction disputes and enforcement of foreign court judgments and arbitral awards. She has a specific focus on business crimes and she handles various disputes where the dispute contains the application of both civil and criminal law principles. Asena also represents many clients in regulated markets and her experience in dispute management also expands to administrative and tax law related disputes.
She is also experienced in employment law. She provides consultancy and represents clients in relation to a wide range of employment law issues including preparation and negotiation of employment contracts, terminations, personnel management, reemployment and unjust competition actions.
Combining her experience in dispute management with insurance law, Asena focuses on the litigation aspect of the firm’s insurance & reinsurance practice. She represents and advises many clients in both local and London insurance market, loss adjusters, international law firms and brokers for handling and management of disputes concerning various types of insurance, carrying out settlement processes, assessment of claim amount and liability of respected parties as well as of policy coverage.
Languages
English, Turkish
Memberships
Istanbul Bar Association
Education
İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, Faculty of Law, İstanbul (L.L.B, 2011)
Bucerius Law School, Hamburg (Erasmus Exchange Program, Fall 2009)
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‘Experienced and supportive team.’
‘They think about all aspects, explain the details, and move forward with the best possible option.’
‘Gün has been assisting with our litigation case in Turkey for nearly 10 years. The case is complicated, involves many parties and the case is divided into several criminal cases and civil cases. So naturally Gün needs to be keeping track of all of those cases with detail and care. Indeed, Gün has put much care into the cases.’
‘Asena Aytuğ Keser is responsive and gives us detailed updates and helpful advice. Thanks to her, we are able to keep track of this complicated case.’
'Kardelen Özden and Beril Yayla Sapan always give high-quality legal service. They give confidence. They embrace cases and follow them with passion. Their reporting is very detailed.'