Hasan Tahsin Azizagaoglu

Practice Areas

Dr Hasan Tahsin Azizagaoglu works at Bench Walk Advisors, where he oversees the due diligence process for proposed funding cases, negotiates funding arrangements, and manages subsequent matters. He has been recognised in Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leaders – Third-Party Funding 2024 and named among the Lawdragon 100 Global Leaders in Litigation Finance for the third consecutive year.

He has been involved in investment and commercial arbitrations, enforcement matters, monetisation opportunities, class actions, and cross-border litigation across multiple jurisdictions. In addition, he served as Co-Chair of the Third-Party Funding Group at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is a member of the organising committees for London Arbitration Week and Istanbul Arbitration Days.

Dr Azizagaoglu holds a PhD in Private International Law and has authored numerous articles and contributions in the fields of private international law, arbitration, and third-party funding. He also holds a degree in International Relations, with a particular emphasis on geopolitical dynamics and global affairs, expertise that lends considerable strategic depth to his work on sovereign-related matters, enforcement proceedings, complex investigations, and cross-border asset tracing

Publications

Co-author ‘The Third-Party Funding Guideline, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators’, 2025

Co-author 'The implications for international disputes; and what the UK can learn from the PACCAR decision', 2024

Co-author ‘Summaries of Arbitration-Related Decisions From the English Courts in 2019’, 18 December 2020.

Co-author ‘Access to International Arbitration and Third-Party Funding in Kosovo’, (This article is jointly presented with Michelman & Robinson LLP), 12 August 2021.

Co-author ‘The Assessment of Fraudulent Claims in Indemnity Insurance Contracts in the Light of English Insurance Law’, 30 June 2022.

Co-author ‘The Definition and Scope of the Safe Port Obligation under Charterparty Agreements in the Light of English Common Law’, 24 July 2022.

Funding International Arbitration, published by Globe Law and Business, 2024

Languages Spoken

English, Turkish