BAYSAL & DEMIR - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Founding Partner
- Founding Partner of Baysal & Demir Law Firm
Dr. Koray Demir is a founding partner of Baysal & Demir Law Firm.
He has advised local and foreign enterprises in every aspect of commercial law, company law, competition law and intellectual property law for more than 10 years. Supported by his academic background, he has extensive experience in drafting and negotiating complex contracts, i.e. distribution agreements, agency agreements, franchise agreements, and leasing and factoring agreements. He also helps clients to manage their relationships with their suppliers and manufacturers. Koray is a well-known expert in warranties of title and quality cases and cases of unfair competition, as well as agents' and sole distributors' indemnity payments. He is also one of the leading academics in so-called group law (Konzernrecht).
Koray assists clients in incorporating companies and branch offices and drafting and/or amending their articles of association. He advises board members in strategic executive decisions and helps clients to hold their general meetings. He also drafts charters for family-owned businesses and regulations for executive organs of stock companies. His strong academic background in so-called balance-based transactions and his understanding of the basic principles of bookkeeping allow him to evaluate and create solutions in technical bankruptcy situations, manage ordinary, conditional and/or authorised capital increases or decreases, and help clients in the formation of joint ventures, mergers, asset and share purchases, spin-offs, the separation of a division, changes of legal form, and liquidation. In the last 10 years he has been involved in various large-scale local and cross-border M&A transactions.
Koray provides services for merger control and exemption filings. He provides legal opinions in cartel investigations and advice on general competition compliance matters in the sense of efficient monitoring and evaluation. Based on his academic background and practical experience as official appraiser for the intellectual property courts, he can also handle complex issues arising out of the law on trademarks, copyrights and patents.
Languages
German, English
Education
Postdoctoral Lecture Qualification, PD Dr. habil.(2018)
University of Zurich, Law Faculty, Switzerland, Ph.D.(2008)
University of Bern, Law Faculty, Switzerland, LL.M (2003)
Ankara University, Law Faculty, Turkey, LL.B. (1999)
Expertise
Expertise
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Counsel at Baysal & Demir Law Firm
Dr. Mustafa Göksu serves as an of counsel at Baysal & Demir Law Firm. He specialises in all aspects of civil procedure, compulsory enforcement (debt collection) and insolvency law. His main focus areas are mediation, litigation finance and the law of evidence, in both Turkish and comparative law.
Mustafa teaches civil procedure, compulsory enforcement, bankruptcy and other relevant subjects (e.g. arbitration, mediation, legal writing) at Hacı Bayram Veli University as an assistant professor of law. He taught at multiple universities at undergraduate level as well as graduate level. He has presented numerous expert opinions to courts and advised several firms. As a visiting Fulbright Scholar, he carried out long-term pre- and post-doctorate research studies at the George Washington University in Washington, DC, and at Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches u. internationales Privatrecht in Hamburg, Germany, with a government grant.
Mustafa is the author of more than 20 publications, including books, peer-reviewed articles, translations etc. He is also the author of Civil Procedure and Dispute Resolution in Turkey, the only book in English on the subject, which also contains the complete English translations of the Turkish Code of Civil Procedure and other relevant statutes. He regularly lectures and speaks at conferences organised by universities, the Ministry of Justice and bar associations.
Mustafa provides professional training especially on the subject of mediation, as well as on other aspect of civil procedure, to clients including, to date, several ministries, bar associations, public and private organisations. He has participated in several projects carried out by the Ministry of Justice and bar associations and is currently a member of the Scientific Committee responsible for drafting the new Turkish Code of Compulsory Enforcement and Bankruptcy.
Languages
English
Education
Ankara University, Law Faculty, Turkey, Ph.D. (2010)
Georgetown University Law School, Washington, DC, USA, Foundations of American Law and Legal Education Program (2003)
Ankara University, Law Faculty, Turkey, LL.M (2001)
Ankara University, Law Faculty, Turkey, LL.B. (1998)
Expertise
Expertise
Dr. Ulaş Baysal is one of the partners at Baysal & Demir Law Firm. He is responsible for the employment practice of the firm.
Ulaş advises companies on all aspects of individual and collective employment law as well as occupational health and safety (OHS) regulations. He regularly acts as an official mediator in negotiations between trade unions and employers/employers' associations. He is a well-known expert on collective bargaining disputes and he is called on for his expertise not only by the courts but also by the parties to the dispute.
On the individual employment law side, he particularly focuses on disputes arising from c-level employment relationships. He assists clients in collective dismissal, restructurings and outsourcing transactions. Recently he has concentrated on mobility, remote work, and the gig economy and employment relations.
Ulaş lectures on employment law, OHS law, trade unions and collective bargaining agreement law at Istanbul Technical University.
Job Titles:
- of Counsel
- Counsel at Baysal & Demir Law Firm
Neşe Önder serves as an of counsel at Baysal & Demir Law Firm. She acted as partner responsible for insurance and reinsurance as well as competition and antitrust practice groups at the commercial and corporate law department of a major Turkish law firm for 11 years.
She has been a listed arbitrator at the Turkish Insurance Arbitration Commission since 2017.
She has worked mostly with foreign actors in the insurance and reinsurance industry and in particular with close ties to the London market. She has extensive experience on various types of policies and policy disputes, including but not limited to construction, erection, fire, machinery, terrorism and financial lines policies (bankers' blanket bonds, commercial crime, D&O liability, venture capital protection, and cash in transit policies, in particular), as well as professional, employers', clinical trial and cyber risk liability policies. She has also advised her clients on provision of cross-border insurance products and localisation of policies.
Her practice includes advising on business set-ups, M&As and corporate governance issues, in particular in the insurance industry.
She has also represented and advised clients from a wide range of industries in relation to compliance with Turkish antitrust and merger control laws, as well as intellectual property rights and unfair competition issues.
She has represented her clients before commercial administrative and criminal courts, as well as in alternative dispute resolution proceedings with respect to various high-profile disputes. Neşe has been described by her clients as ‘hard working, responsive and consumer friendly'.
Languages
English, German
Education
London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK, LL.M (2000)
Marmara University, Law Faculty, Turkey, LL.B. (1998)
Expertise
Expertise
Job Titles:
- Founding Partner
- Founding Partner of Baysal & Demir Law Firm
Pelin Baysal is a founding partner of Baysal & Demir Law Firm.
She has over 15 years of experience in advising and representing companies and state-owned entities across a broad range of industries. She has extensive experience in international arbitrations and cross-border litigations, including many multi-hundred-million-dollar disputes, under different applicable laws. She has acted as a legal expert on matters of Turkish law in various foreign court proceedings. She also has broad experience in the recognition and enforcement of foreign court decisions and arbitral awards in Turkey.
Her practice focuses on construction, insurance and reinsurance, M&A, distribution agreements and infrastructure disputes. She has been involved in disputes concerning almost all of the largest construction projects in Turkey of the last decade. Many clients in the financial services sector have trusted her to represent their interests before arbitral tribunals and Turkish courts to collect their receivables under different contracts. She has been recognised as a star by Euromoney Benchmark Litigation for years on international arbitration, insurance and commercial transactions.
Her insurance and reinsurance practice is particularly distinguished. She has vast experience in handling coverage issues on almost all policy types, including construction all risk, fire all risk, third party liability, professional liability, credit insurance and bankers' blanket bond policies. She is the only lawyer from Turkey listed in Who's Who Legal Insurance and Reinsurance. She is noted as highly sought after by clients, who commend her ‘sharp and comprehensive analysis' as well as ‘the clarity of her advice' when it comes to insurance disputes.
Pelin is also involved in various M&A transactions, has negotiated and drafted share purchase agreements, shareholders' agreements and joint venture agreements, and has assisted her clients in real estate transactions. Chambers Europe Corporate ranked her as an up-and-coming lawyer in 2021.
Pelin has been repeatedly praised in all leading professional directories and is described as ‘highly motivated and hard-working to best represent the client's interests'. She is considered ‘a very strong analytical lawyer' and has earned praise for her ‘highly pragmatic and solution-oriented support coupled with precise knowledge and understanding of the case'. Clients applaud her ‘very close relationship with the companies [for which] she provides service', and she ‘goes the extra mile to be successful for her clients'.
Languages:
English, German
Education:
Ruprecht-Karls University, Law Faculty, Heidelberg, Germany, LL.M (2005)
Ankara University, Law Faculty, Turkey, LL.B. (2001)
Expertise
Expertise