Serdar Paksoy

Practice Areas

Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Mergers and Acquisitions

Corporate Governance

Anti-Corruption and White Collar Crime

Compliance and Investigations

Career

Serdar Paksoy is the founding and senior partner of Paksoy. His practice focuses on corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, white – collar crimes, investigations and dispute resolution. He has substantial experience in advising foreign investors on strategically significant disputes, particularly those that may arise in their transactions, whether within Turkey or on an international scale.

Mr Paksoy is the head of Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice overseeing litigation, arbitration, investigations, and a range of disputes, including corporate, employment and M&A within various sectors and industries. He is an active trial lawyer and has acted for parties in Turkish court actions across a spectrum of contentious matters from shareholder conflicts to construction law, investigations, securities, company law, product liability, tax litigation, administrative law proceedings, and concessionary disputes.

He has represented investors and sovereigns in international arbitrations before various arbitral institutions including the ICC, ICSID, ISTAC (Istanbul Arbitration Center), Istanbul Chamber of Commerce, ITOTAM and TOBB (The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey) Arbitration Center.

Mr Paksoy acts as arbitrator and counsel in numerous tribunals for a variety of disputes in both domestic and international arbitrations. He is a listed arbitrator of the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce Arbitration Center. He is the country chair and representative of DRI-the Voice of the Defense Bar in Turkey.

Professional Memberships

Istanbul Bar Association

International Bar Association

Dispute Resolution International, the Voice of the Defense Bar