Yaman Gursel

Yaman Gürsel (LL.M, PhD) has worked on a number of international arbitrations related to commercial and sports-related matters, subject to Swiss and Turkish substantive law, relating to M&A, turnkey construction, consortium, and financing disputes at cross-border level.

Yaman holds an LL.M. (magna cum laude) in International Business Law from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and an LL.B. from Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. He is currently completing his Ph.D. at the University of Fribourg on non-possessory secured transactions for SMEs. Yaman has participated in the Willem C. VIS International Commercial Arbitration Moot and has been coaching the VIS moot team of Istanbul Bilgi University for almost a decade now. Yaman is also a published author of several peer-reviewed articles.

Yaman is fluent in English, French, and Turkish and has a working knowledge of German. Yaman has trained and worked at a top-tier Turkish law firm specializing in maritime, transportation and insurance law, and subsequently for leading Swiss arbitration boutiques.

As a jurist trained in the U.S.A, Switzerland and Turkey, he is admitted to Istanbul Bar.

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