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Att. Dr. Burak KEÇECİOĞLU

Founding Partner · Mediator

He graduated from İzmir Gediz University Faculty of Law in 2015 and has been a member of the İzmir Bar Association since 2016. He completed his master’s degree and his doctorate in commercial law at Dokuz Eylül University Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Private Law. Alongside his legal practice, he serves as an Assistant Professor at Ada Kent University Faculty of Law.

His practice focuses on commercial enterprise law, corporate law and negotiable instruments. He has 12 academic publications in these fields, including two books.

Education

PhD, Dokuz Eylül University, Private Law (Commercial Law), 2024
LLM, Dokuz Eylül University, Private Law, 2018
LLB, İzmir Gediz University Faculty of Law, 2015

Academic position

Assistant Professor (Dr. Öğr. Üyesi), Ada Kent University Faculty of Law

Bar admission

İzmir Bar Association, 2016

Certifications

Mediator (2023) · Concordat commissioner training

Practice areas

Commercial enterprise law, corporate law, negotiable instruments, consumer law

Languages

Turkish, English, German

Contact

+90 537 886 87 76 · burak.kececioglu@gmail.com

CV in YÖK format (PDF, in Turkish)LinkedIn

Att. Hacim ÇİFTÇİ

Retired Judge · Attorney · Mediator

He graduated from the Istanbul University Faculty of Law and qualified for an attorney’s licence by decision no. 48 of the Istanbul Bar Association dated 30 December 1993. On 6 May 1994 he began his training as a candidate judge and prosecutor and, after passing the final examination, was appointed as a judge.

During his judicial career he served in civil courts of first instance, civil courts of peace, criminal courts of first instance, criminal courts of peace, high criminal courts, and labour, cadastral and family courts. Holding standing authority, he also heard enforcement and enforcement-related criminal matters, commercial cases, patent and negotiable instrument cases, succession disputes, land registry annulment and registration cases, and cases concerning forest, pasture and treasury land. He became eligible for election as a member of the Court of Cassation in 2008 and was appointed to a regional court of appeal in 2019.

In 2023 he left the judiciary at his own request as a first-class judge. Having qualified as a mediator in 2016, he now works as an attorney, mediator and legal consultant, bringing his long judicial experience to our firm’s litigation and advisory work.

Education

LL.B., Istanbul University Faculty of Law

Attorney’s licence

Istanbul Bar Association, decision no. 48 of 30 December 1993

Judicial career

Candidate judge and prosecutor training, 1994
Eligible for election to the Court of Cassation, 2008
Appointed to a regional court of appeal, 2019
Left the judiciary at his own request as a first-class judge, 2023

Certifications

Mediation (2016)

Courts served

Civil and criminal courts of first instance, civil and criminal courts of peace, high criminal courts, labour, cadastral and family courts

Experience

Enforcement and insolvency law, commercial law, patent and negotiable instrument cases, succession law, land registry annulment and registration, forest, pasture and treasury land cases, criminal, labour and family law