Currently as a Partner with the Banking & Finance team, Eda advises and represents both international and local clients including regulatory issues as well as cross border financings and contracts subject to Turkish Law from a wide range of sectors such as finance, energy, infrastructure, defense, aviation and transportation. She has been involved in advising on Islamic finance, project finance, acquisition finance and other banking & finance transactions and PPP projects and advised various banks, financial institutions and investment companies.
Prior to joining the Pekin & Pekin Banking & Finance team, Eda gained experience in several leading Turkish law firms, where she developed her expertise in energy, infrastructure and finance industries. Eda has also advised local and multinational clients operating in energy including renewable and nuclear energy, healthcare, mining, infrastructure, and construction. She has been involved in the advisory team of one of Turkey’s Nuclear Power Plants and advised in development, construction and power purchase agreement matters. Additionally, she took part in negotiations of the second nuclear power plant in relation to intergovernmental and host government agreements.
Eda holds an LLM degree in business law from Istanbul Bilgi University specializing on factoring transactions and problems in the Turkish market in her thesis. In the course of her undergraduate and masters studies Eda was involved in the publication of various international academic studies. She is a member of the Willem C. Vis Commercial Arbitration Moot Alumni Association, holding the Martin Domke Award and coaching several moot teams of reputable Universities in Turkey as well as sitting as an arbitrator at the Willem C. Vis Commercial Arbitration Moot ever since. Eda is a member of the Young International Arbitration Group of the London Court of International Arbitration and she is fluent in English and German.
Founded in 1971, Pekin & Pekin is a full-service law firm providing integrated legal services to clients involved in transactions within Turkey with an extensive network, from legal associations to professional bodies and law firms. This network is essential for client development, knowledge sharing, best practice, referrals and deal execution. As the only Turkish law firm to be admitted to the associations Lex Mundi, Pekin & Pekin has an extensive legal network.
Pekin & Pekin is an associate member and local counsel to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) and counsel to the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) Securities Lending and Repo Committee (SLRC) Capital Adequacy Directive Working Group. The Firm is an affiliate of the Futures and Options Association (FOA). We have longstanding links with global law firms as their Turkish legal counsel.
In addition to the Magic Circle and US firms, Pekin & Pekin has formed strong bonds with other firms as their clients have entered the Turkish market. The geographical location of these new firms is wide, from Norway to Japan and India to the United Arab Emirates.
The vision of Pekin & Pekin today is the same vision as in 1971 – to provide clients with legal advice that helps them achieve their long-term objectives in Turkey and globally with the greatest efficiency. This vision is attained by a strategy of steady expansion, allowing the Firm to retain its boutique character and standard of service.
The Firm has pioneered legal structures for Turkish banking transactions, facilitated the introduction of new financial products and organisational structures, advised regulators on new laws and regulators on new laws and regulations across multiple sectors acted in the largest and most high profile finance and M&A deals in the jurisdiction and succeeded in complex arbitration cases.
