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Practice Areas

- 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

Career

Ercument Erdem is the Founder and Senior Partner of Erdem & Erdem Law Office. He has approximately 35 years of experience in international commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, privatizations, corporate finance and arbitration. He serves international and national clients in a variety of industries including energy, construction, finance, retail, real estate, aerospace, healthcare and insurance.

He has extensive experience in cross-border projects concerning project finance, privatization, mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions in wide geography including Europe, Asia and CIS countries.

Moreover he has successfully represented clients in many arbitration proceedings and enforcement claims in relation to arbitral awards obtained outside of Turkey. He has acted as chairman and sole or party-appointed arbitrator in many international and national arbitrations under different rules including International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Arbitration, Swiss Arbitration, Moscow Arbitration, United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Arbitration, Tehran Arbitration, and ad hoc arbitrations and is, furthermore, distinguished in this field.

Ercüment Erdem is a member of Istanbul Bar Association, the Chair of ICC Commercial Law and Practice Commission, and a member of the ICC Court of Arbitration, ICC Institute Council, ICC Incoterms Expert Group, and ICC Turkish National Committee Arbitration Council as well as a member of several ICC task forces. He is a member of the Association Suisse de l'Arbitrage (ASA), International Bar Association (IBA), Association Henri Capitant des amis de la culture juridique française, and the Research Institute of Banking and Commercial Law.

He has highly strong academic background. He is an emeritus professor and still continues to lecture in leading universities such as Galatasaray University in Turkey and Fribourg University in Switzerland. He has over 35 year experience as a scholar and his research contains competition and antitrust law, international commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, corporate law etc. He has authored books on international trade law, competition law, mergers and acquisitions, commercial enterprise law, CIF sales, bonds, contracts etc. In addition he has authored numerous articles in national or international publications related to commercial law, competition and antitrust law, contracts law, arbitration, complex business litigation issues, dispute resolution etc.

Professional Memberships

- Istanbul Bar Association

- Chair of the ICC Commercial Law and Practice Commission

- Institute Council of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)

- 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)

Publications

- 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).

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