Practice Expertise

  • Banking and Finance Law
  • Civil Aviation Law
  • Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Business Law
  • Foreign Investment Law, International Trade

Areas of Practice

  • Banking and Finance Law
  • Civil Aviation Law
  • Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Business Law
  • Foreign Investment Law, International Trade
  • Energy Law
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • View More

WSG Practice Industries

WSG Leadership

  • DealMaker Group - Member
  • Mergers & Acquisitions Group - Member

Profile

Sefika Pekin is one of the senior partners and has extensive experience in a range of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, privatizations, joint ventures, banking and finance, capital markets, IPO. Ms. Pekin regularly represents foreign companies and banks, private equity funds, and other investment funds and financial institutions in cross-border transactions, specifically in Turkey. She also has significant experience in dispute resolutions, corporate law, project finance, capital markets and public offerings. Her industry expertise includes dispute resolutions, energy, banking and finance, insurance, healthcare, telecommunications and media.

She has been a senior partner with Pekin Bayar Mizrahi since 1993.

Bar Admissions
Istanbul Bar Association admitted 1982

Education
Istanbul University, School of Law; (LL.B.)
Sorbonne University, Paris
American College for Girls, Izmir.

Areas of Practice

  • Banking and Finance Law
  • Civil Aviation Law
  • Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Business Law
  • Foreign Investment Law, International Trade
  • Energy Law
  • Mergers and Acquisitions

Professional Career

Significant Accomplishments
Listed as the Leading Lawyer of the Year in 2011 by IFLR 1000

Professional Associations
  • International Bar Association

European Council of Lawyers
Suisse Chamber of Commerce in Turkey
Robert College Board of Trustees
Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen Association (TUSIAD)



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