Member Bio
Serdar Paksoy is the founding and senior partner of Paksoy. His practice focuses on corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, white – collar crimes, investigations and dispute resolution. He has substantial experience in advising foreign investors on strategically significant disputes, particularly those that may arise in their transactions, whether within Turkey or on an international scale.
Mr Paksoy is the head of Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice overseeing litigation, arbitration, investigations, and a range of disputes, including corporate, employment and M&A within various sectors and industries. He is an active trial lawyer and has acted for parties in Turkish court actions across a spectrum of contentious matters from shareholder conflicts to construction law, investigations, securities, company law, product liability, tax litigation, administrative law proceedings, and concessionary disputes.
He has represented investors and sovereigns in international arbitrations before various arbitral institutions including the ICC, ICSID, ISTAC (Istanbul Arbitration Center), Istanbul Chamber of Commerce, ITOTAM and TOBB (The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey) Arbitration Center.
Mr Paksoy acts as arbitrator and counsel in numerous tribunals for a variety of disputes in both domestic and international arbitrations. He is a listed arbitrator of the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce Arbitration Center. He is the country chair and representative of DRI-the Voice of the Defense Bar in Turkey.
Mr Paksoy is recognised as an Eminent Practitioner for Corporate and M&A in Chambers and Partners 2023. He is also listed as a Hall of Fame individual for Dispute and Resolution in Legal 500 2023, and is a recommended lawyer in their Dispute Resolution Powerlist for Türkiye. He also maintains a highly regarded ranking by IFLR 1000.