Arrival of Zorlu Holding Pair Transforms Kececiler Into Kececiler & Partners

According to Pinar Aydin, the firm focuses on "energy law, project finance, M&As, public and/or private partnerships, litigation, banking and finance and sports law," and Aydin says that she and her colleagues intend to add more lawyers and trainees soon. 

Kececiler — the son of a famous former Turkish minister — has been practicing since 2005 as the Kececiler Law Firm. Pinar Aksakal Aydin informs CEE Legal Matters that Kececiler "has intense litigation, insurance, labour, corporate and commercial law and M&A experience," while she Ece Kok Sen have "a corporate background … and [are] experienced on factoring and corporate commercial law issues."

In joining Kececiler, Aydin, who led the 11-person legal team at Zorlu Energy and reported directly to Zorlu Holding’s Head of Legal, returns to private practice, where she spent the first two years of her career (in 2007 with the Salih Zeki Bayten Law Firm and in 2008 with Eryurekli & Fidan). She joined Zorlu Holding in February 2009, and – with the exception of a brief period at Avea Iletisim Hizmetleri in 2012 — has been there since. She explained to CEE Legal Matters that, "The main reason for me to make this move is my willingness to be on the field. After a long period of in house counsel experience, I felt like I was making no progress in terms of my career objectives and I had the sense that I should take a private practice path to be on the field instead of backstage. While I was thinking of going solo to realize my desire, thanks to Ece I met with Murat who was in private practice and had run an office for about ten years. After our meeting we decided to combine our experiences in different areas by cofounding a partnership."

Ece Sen began her career with four years as a Compliance Officer-MLRO and Senior Lawyer with ING Faktoring A.S before moving over to Zorlu Holding in early 2014.