Yuksel Karkin Kucuk has announced the promotion of two lawyers to partnership. Ibrahim Yamakoglu, an Intellectual Property and Technology lawyer, and Onur Yalcin, a Dispute Resolution specialist, have both become Partners at DLA Piper's Turkish affiliate.
Yamakoglu is experienced in commercial agreements (distributorship, franchise and agency agreements, etc.) and commercial disputes. He provides legal advice primarily to pharmaceutical companies and other companies engaged in medical devices, consumer goods, cosmetics and other retail sectors. He was admitted to practice in 2004, and earned his LLM degree from London School of Economics in 2005. He graduated from Marmara University, Faculty of Law in 2002.
Onur Yalcin’s practice focuses on litigation and regulatory work, law of contracts, banking law, and Islamic finance, insolvency, restructuring and debt recovery, and real estate. Yalcin is currently a Ph.D. candidate on Private Law at the Social Sciences Institute of Galatasaray University. He was admitted to practice in 2001, and he earned his LL.M. degree in private law at Galatasaray University Social Sciences Institute in 2005. He graduated from Istanbul University School of Law in 1999. He began his career with four years at Herguner Bilge Ozeke in Istanbul before moving over to Yuksel Karkin Kucuk in 2009.
YKK now has 11 Partners and 110 lawyers overall.
