Ercüment Erdem

- Arbitration

- Aviation Law

- Banking and Finance Law

- Capital Markets

- Competition and Antitrust

- Corporate Advisory

- International Commercial Contracts

- International Commercial Transactions

- Litigation

- Mergers and Acquisitions

- Privatization

- Project Finance

- Public Private Partnerships (PPP’s)

- Start-ups and Equity Investments

Ercüment Erdem is the founder and senior partner of Erdem & Erdem. He has more than 40 years of experience in arbitration, international commercial law, competition & antitrust, mergers & acquisitions, privatizations and corporate finance. He serves international and national clients in a variety of industries including energy, construction, finance, retail, real estate, port operation as well as healthcare.

He has acted as chairman and sole or party-appointed arbitrator in many international and national arbitrations under different rules including ICC Arbitration, Swiss Arbitration, Moscow Arbitration, UNCITRAL Arbitration, Tehran Arbitration and ad hoc arbitrations and is, furthermore, distinguished in this field.

He is a commercial law professor lecturing in leading universities such as Galatasaray University in Türkiye and Fribourg University in Switzerland. He has over 40 years of experience as a scholar and is the author of reference books on international trade law, competition law, mergers and acquisitions, commercial enterprise law, CIF sales, bonds, contracts etc. He is fluent in English, French and Turkish.

Ercüment Erdem is a member of the Istanbul Bar Association, Chairman of the ICC Commercial Law and Practice Commission, an emeritus member of the ICC Institute Council, a former member of the ICC Court of Arbitration, a member of the ICC Incoterms Experts Group and the ICC Turkish National Committee Arbitration Court. In addition to these memberships, he actively participates in many working groups of the ICC. He is also a member of the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA), the Istanbul Arbitration Center (ISTAC), the International Bar Association (IBA), the Henri Capitant Association of Friends of French Legal Culture and the Banking and Commercial Law Research Institute. He was also appointed as a judge of the European Nuclear Energy Tribunal (ENET).

Ercüment Erdem has been recognized as “Hall of Fame” in Legal 500 EMEA Guide 2025, and he has been ranked as one of the leading individuals in Litigation and Arbitration areas of Chambers & Partners Europe and Global Guides. He has been recognised as an Expert Consultant in Mergers and Acquisitions by IFLR 1000 and as a Global Leader in arbitration by Lexology Index (Who is Who Legal).

Istanbul Bar Association

Member of the ICC Commercial Law and Practice Commission

Former Chair of the ICC Commercial Law and Practice Commission (2019-2025)

Emeritus Member of ICC Institute Council

Former Member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration

ICC Arbitration Commission

ICC Incoterms Experts Group

ICC Turkish National Committee Arbitration Council

Association Henri Capitant des Amis de la Culture Juridique Française

Advisory Council of Banking and Commercial Law Research Institute

Advisory Board Member of Istanbul Arbitration Centre (ISTAC)

Association Suisse de l’Arbitrage (ASA)

International Bar Association (IBA)

Judge at the European Nuclear Energy Tribunal

- International Commercial Law, Updated and Expanded 2nd Edition, Istanbul 2020

- Articles on Turkish Commercial Code (2009-2016)

- International Commercial Law, Istanbul 2017

- Articles on International Commercial Law (2007-2016), Istanbul 2017

- Articles on International Commercial Law, Istanbul 2008.

- Articles on Competition Law, Istanbul 2007.

- Mergers and Acquisitions in Turkish and EC Competition Law, Law on the Protection of Competition, Competition Board Communiqués, EC Council Regulation (4064/89), Istanbul 2003.

- CIF Sales, Istanbul 1999.

- Notes Issued by Joint Stock Companies and Introduction to Capital Market Law (Together with Capital Market Law), Lecture Notes, Ankara 1995.

- Commercial Enterprise Law Lecture Notes (Together with Prof. Dr. İrfan Baştuğ), Ankara 1993.

- United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (together with the text of the Vienna Sales Convention), Ankara 1992.

- The Merchant Status of SOEs, Ankara 1992.

- La livraison des marchandises selon la Convention de Vienne, Fribourg 1990 (Phd thesis).