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Mr. Okan Demirkan leads the Firm’s Dispute Resolution, Energy & Infrastructure and Ethics & Compliance practices. He represents domestic and international clients before arbitral tribunals and in their local litigation proceedings, including commercial, administrative and employment lawsuits, as well as white-collar crime-related proceedings. Okan has been extensively involved in several institutional and ad hoc arbitration proceedings concerning disputes arising from major infrastructure projects, share purchase agreements, shareholders’ agreements, asset transfer agreements, operation agreements, construction contracts, license agreements and other types of commercial contracts. He and his disputes team have also represented several international clients in the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards, with a 100% success rate since Mr. Demirkan joined Kolcuoğlu Demirkan Koçaklı as a name partner.

Mr. Demirkan completed his education in Israel, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, respectively. He holds a law degree from the University of Sussex (2000). He started his legal career in 2000 and was admitted to the Istanbul Bar Association in 2003.

With significant experience of 20 years in international arbitration, he regularly serves as counsel, arbitrator or expert witness in various commercial disputes involving Turkish law.