Founding Partner
Erhan Özkan, LL.M.
Erhan Özkan is the Founding Partner of Özkan Legal. He practises international trade law, corporate law, employment law, enforcement and insolvency law, and inheritance law.
He graduated from Yeditepe University Faculty of Law in 2016 and obtained an LL.M. in International Commercial Law from the University of Westminster, London, with Distinction in 2018. His master's thesis compared the obligations of seller and buyer under FOB and CIF in Turkish and English law in light of INCOTERMS 2010.
He completed his legal traineeship in Istanbul and is a member of the Istanbul Bar Association. He founded Özkan Legal in 2019. He advises companies with foreign shareholders and clients engaged in foreign trade in Turkish and English and drafts bilingual contracts where required. He represents parties in arbitration and acts as defence counsel and victim's counsel under the Code of Criminal Procedure. He has completed mediation training.
He served for two years as a member of the Audit Board of the Eskişehir Association of Industrialists and Businesspeople (ESİAD) and has been Chair of the Audit Board since 2023. He speaks fluent English.
- Bar
- Istanbul Bar Association
- Education
- University of Westminster, London - LL.M. International Commercial Law (Distinction), 2016-2018
- Yeditepe University, Faculty of Law, 2012-2016
- Languages
- English (C1)
- Thesis
- Party obligations under FOB and CIF: the INCOTERMS 2010 changes and their interpretation in Turkish and English law
- Practice areas
- International Trade Law
- Corporate Law
- Employment Law
- Enforcement and Insolvency
- Inheritance Law
- Roles
- Chair of the Audit Board, ESİAD (Eskişehir Association of Industrialists and Businesspeople), since 2023
- Member of the Audit Board, ESİAD (two years)