Ömer Şirin

Career

Ömer Şirin is a counsel at A&O Shearman and serves as an English law consultant for Gedik & Eraksoy. He has extensive experience in banking and finance, including leveraged and corporate lending, project finance, and structured trade finance. Based in A&O Shearman’s Istanbul office, Ömer regularly advises on complex, cross-border transactions throughout Turkey, the Middle East, and Africa, and has played a key role in a number of high-profile, landmark deals in these regions.

Ömer began his legal career at a leading international law firm before joining A&O Shearman. He subsequently served as Head of Legal at a major European bank in Amsterdam, where he managed multi-jurisdictional legal teams across the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Romania. Upon returning to A&O Shearman’s Istanbul office as counsel, Ömer brought with him valuable executive-level in-house experience and a pragmatic, commercially focused approach to legal risk. His unique combination of private practice and in-house expertise enables him to provide strategic, technically robust advice that is closely aligned with clients’ business objectives across a range of jurisdictions.