Begüm Biçer İlikay

Practice Areas

Dispute Resolution, Ethics and Compliance

Career

Begüm Biçer İlikay joined Kolcuoğlu Demirkan Koçaklı in 2016. She became the Firm’s counsel in 2024.

Professional Memberships

Istanbul Bar Association; Middle East Committee Member, Fire Starter

Publications

Co-author of “The International Investigations Review,” Turkey Chapter, 10th-12th editions (the Law Reviews, 2020-2022); “The Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption Review,” Turkey Chapter, 5th-6th editions (the Law Reviews, 2016-2017)

Personal

Galatasaray University School of Law (LL.M., pending); Galatasaray University School of Law (2012)

Languages Spoken

English, French, Turkish

Experience

Begüm Biçer İlikay has robust experience in dispute resolution, compliance and investigations. Begüm represents domestic and international clients before the Turkish Courts, execution offices and other public authorities in a wide range of litigation matters, including commercial and corporate-related disputes (including complex intra-company disputes), employment-related disputes, administrative lawsuits, enforcement lawsuits, criminal proceedings in relation to white-collar crimes as well as execution and bankruptcy proceedings. She also provides Turkish law advice in connection with disputes pending before foreign courts. She has vast experience in the enforcement of foreign court judgments and arbitral awards.

Begüm is also experienced in advising on the compliance of clients’ business practices with local and international anti-corruption and anti-bribery regulations and conducting internal investigations. She was involved in several major investigation processes.

Begüm leads Firm's French Desk.

Clients

Fatih Terim and the Terim Family, ArcelorMittal RZK, Hepsiburada, QTerminals, SOCAR AQS, Coca Cola İçecek, Accessorize, Abalıoğlu Holding, Dikey Vitamin, AS Mintos Marketplace, Ströer SE, Mitsubishi Corporation, LR Health & Beauty Systems, Vinmar, Gates Corporation, Alsim Alarko, Global Founders Capital, Oliver Samwer, Turkven Private Equity, Terumo Europe, Trabzonspor, Gano Excel, Nolan Group, Roxcel, Odea Bank, Rapro Kimya, Rapro Kauçuk, Huntsman, VHV Group, Sel Dış Ticaret and PVcase.

Work Highlights

Some of Begüm’s recent work highlights include legal advice to and representation of Fatih Terim, an esteemed and globally renowned football coach, as well as his family, in relation to an exceptionally high-profile fraud case stemming from a fraudulent transaction by a bank branch manager; Odea Bank, owned by Lebanese Bank Audi, in several execution proceedings and related lawsuits in connection with the purchase of a very valuable historical building; Neqsol Holding, an Azerbaijani diversified group of companies operating across various industries and countries, in the collection of the receivables from the former CEO of the Turkish subsidiary of SOCAR AQS, an integrated drilling and well services management company; Dikey Vitamin, a prominent athlete nutriment manufacturer and vending machine operator in Turkey, in a complex unfair competition dispute against a subsidiary of one of the country’s leading conglomerates as well as in the lawsuits filed against the former employees; Qterminals, the Antalya Port’s operator, in an annulment lawsuit regarding a decision by the Turkish Competition Board; AS Mintos Marketplace, a leading Latvian investment firm providing a unique investment platform for loans in Europe, in the complex dispute with Wowwo, a Turkish company operating in the resale of vehicles industry; and Rapro Kimya and Rapro Kauçuk, Gates Corporation’s Turkish subsidiaries, in civil actions against three very large Turkish banks, regarding a complex fraud scheme caused by an employee’s massive financial fraud facilitated by three Turkish banks’ negligence.