Nil Merve Çelikbaş Şeker

Nil Merve Çelikbaş Şeker’s practice focuses on the corporate, foreign investments and projects, domestic and international mergers & acquisitions, general corporate advisory work, and complex commercial litigation. Her expertise includes commercial and contract law, data protection and information technology, unfair competition law, international trade law, intellectual property law and consumer law. She has also several experiences for assisting and advising foreign companies for the acquisition transactions concluded in or related to Turkey. She is also well specialized in Intellectual Property matters including copyrights, unfair competition and other related areas of practice such as mass media, consumer protection and advertising law.  

She has advised and represented clients across a wide range of industries including gas armatures, machinery and equipment manufacturing, horizontal and vertical lifelines, financial services, wind power, human resources, robotics, packaging and automotive industry, steel and metal industry, plastics industry, transportation, construction industries, and other distribution networks, as well as the textile, food, beverages and agriculture.

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Nil Merve ÇELİKBAŞ ŞEKER, LL.M.

Founder / Attorney at Law

nmc@celikbaslaw.com

Education:

2010 - 2012             GALATASARAY UNIVERSITY, SOCIAL 

                                SCIENCES INSTITUTE–LL.M.-PRIVATE LAW 

                                MASTER ROGRAMME, on Unfair Competition Law

2005 – 2009            MARMARA UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF LAW

2001 – 2005            LYCEE ST. BENOIT D’ISTANBUL

                                ST. BENOIT FRENCH HIGH SCHOOL

Languages:

TURKISH (Native speaker)

 ENGLISH (Fluent)

 FRENCH  (Fluent)

Registrations:

Istanbul Bar Association, 2010

Memberships:

• ISTANBUL BAR ASSOCIATION
• Executive Committee Member of Foreign Relations Center of Istanbul Bar Association, Head of the France and Francophones Bar Associations
• Turkish Bars Association
• Istanbul Bar Association, Executive Committee Member of Foreign Relations Center of Istanbul Bar Association, Head of the France and Francophones Bar Associations
• The British Chamber of Commerce in Turkey
• Professional Women’s Network Association – PWN Istanbul
• Association of Alumni of the Lycée Saint-Benoît
• Association of Alumni of the Marmara University, Law School
• Association of Alumni of the Galatasaray University
• Female Turkish Lawyers and Turkish Women's Association

Publications

Book

The Responsibility of the Printed Media on Unfair Competition (published on May 2013, Vedat Yayıncılık)

Articles

• Evaluation of the Current Situation in the Light of Valuable Housing Tax Application General Communiqué (Lexpera, 2021) 
• Impact of COVID-19 Epidemic on Workplace Rents (Lexpera, 2020)
• Translation of the European Court of Human Rights’ Decision called Özpinar against Turkey from French version to Turkish (published on May 2012 on the Hacettepe University Law Faculty Review , with colleagues Dr. İlker Erdem Mutlu, Begüm Şermet)
• Relation between Charterparty and Bill of Loading (published in Justice Academy of Turkey review, January 2012 in Turkish)
• Restriction of Author`s rights according to FSEK (published in Legal Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights Review-Legal Fikri ve Sınai Haklar Dergisi, Mars 2011, in Turkish)
• Protection of the Consumer against General Conditions in the Agreements on Turkish Law (published in Turkish on the review of the Istanbul Bar Association January-February 2011)
• Responsibility of Partners of Joint Stock Company on the  Establishment of the Company (not yet published, 2010 in Turkish)
• Methods of the Determination of the Damage founded on Tort (not yet published, 2010 in Turkish)

REPRESENTED CLIENTS in 2009-2022

To be provided upon request. 

About

Nil Merve Çelikbaş Şeker’s practice focuses on the corporate, foreign investments and projects, domestic and international mergers & acquisitions, general corporate advisory work, and complex commercial litigation. Her expertise includes commercial and contract law, data protection and information technology, unfair competition law, international trade law, intellectual property law and consumer law. She has also several experiences for assisting and advising foreign companies for the acquisition transactions concluded in or related to Turkey. She is also well specialized in Intellectual Property matters including copyrights, unfair competition and other related areas of practice such as mass media, consumer protection and advertising law.

She has advised and represented clients across a wide range of industries including gas armatures, machinery and equipment manufacturing, horizontal and vertical lifelines, financial services, wind power, human resources, robotics, packaging and automotive industry, steel and metal industry, plastics industry, transportation, construction industries, and other distribution networks, as well as the textile, food, beverages and agriculture.

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