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ABOUT US
Mesav Partners is an Istanbul based law firm that offers effective and fast solutions to its clients in international commercial and trade law, corporate, contract, arbitration, property, and maritime law. It aims to have an active role in the disputes of its customers, especially in the national and international arena. The Firm targets for providing its customers on a legal basis in their business and transactions.
PRACTICE AREAS
Maritime Law
Mesav Partners’ work involves domestic and international arbitrations in our fields of specialisation. Arbitration, rather than immediate and direct court proceedings, is a recognised and preferred method of resolving disputes within the sport, shipping, construction, engineering and allied industries as well as in general commercial transactions. Our team members have experience in resolving complex disputes in both domestic and international arbitrations concerning matters in investment, construction, commercial transactions and shipping. In commercial and business matters, arbitration has equally long since been recognised as an efficient, cost-effective and certain means of resolving disputes without the increased expense and anxieties of litigation. Multinational companies trading in different jurisdictions value the particular benefits of resolving their commercial disputes in Arbitration.
International Commercial and Trade Law
Team members of Mesav Partners are often called upon by clients to provide clear and pragmatic advice on their strategic and challenging transactions across all the major markets often with multi-jurisdictional dimensions. To facilitate this, we work with our international networks to ensure seamless delivery of service on cross-border projects. We advise businesses of all sizes including shareholders, management teams, investors and lenders on transactions across the globe – from initial start up to growth and development transactions, takeovers, mergers, acquisitions, strategic alliances, joint ventures, outsourcing, reorganisation or restructuring and buyouts. Our experience extends beyond transactional work and we also look after our clients through every stage of the company life-cycle. Our advice also covers all aspects of governance and administration of companies, including directors’ duties, board and shareholder issues and company secretarial services.
International Arbitration Law
We specialise in technically complex aviation litigation, which often involves aviation laws in different countries. We help pilots, crew, passengers, and their families, involved in aviation accidents and disasters worldwide. We frequently represent pilots and small aircraft operators, often in conjunction with our Employment or Commercial Litigation departments, in relation to a variety of commercial issues. We regularly advise lessors on English law lease provisions for default and termination, including issues arising as to the appropriation of payments towards outstanding principal and interest in aviation area especially lease contracts.
Corporote Law
We deal with all types of shipping issues ranging from disputes to commercial and contractual issues. Mesav Partners’ work involves internal and international shipping matters in our fields of specialisation especially ship collisions, employment disputes, ship insurance, P&I and charter contracts. Aside from disputes, we have experience of shipbuilding, ship financing and sale and purchase matters. We have helping our clients to build ships, finance ships and sell ships including dealing with all regulatory and registration issues that have arisen. In aditionally we are helping to our clients in terms of technical management and ship brokarege.
Banking & Finance
Team members of Mesav Partners are multi-lingual and we maintain strong relationships with financial institutions throughout Europe, the Middle East and America, allowing us to involve ourselves in cross-border transactions and agreements. We specialise in making the highly complex, jargon loaded field of banking and financial law simple and easy to understand, so you are not wasting precious resources wading through endless documents and drafting convoluted agreements.
Tax & Taxation Law
Mesav Partners is provides a full range of tax advisory, tax planning and tax dispute resolution services to companies and high net worth individuals. A significant part of the work provided involves international tax planning and assists corporate and private clients coming to Turkey, moving overseas or carrying out any cross-border transaction. We can help you take advantage of all the planning arrangements available. Whether in their business or personal lives, our Tax team offers guidance to clients to help them navigate their way through the complicated web of the internal and international tax systems.
Contracts Law
Mesav Partners understand that disputes can be stressful, time consuming and damaging to your business. However, many issues can be resolved without the need for any court proceedings. We provide a full dispute resolution offering that assists clients with a speedy conclusion to their commercial disputes. Our experienced dispute resolution lawyers have a proven track record of winning high profile cases and achieving fair and just results for our clients. We will assess your case carefully and provide any alternatives to a formal procedure, including alternative dispute resolution (ADR) such as mediation. Ultimately litigation is a means to an end for our clients we will achieve that as effectively as possible. We will discuss the likely costs involved in managing your case at each stage.
Aviation Law
Our employment team has years of experience in dealing with human resources issues that arise between employers and their employees. We advise on all forms of discrimination and dismissals from employment and will advise you and guide you every step of the way until the dispute is resolved to your satisfaction even if it means going all the way to the employment tribunal. Employment contracts can be complex and confusing. Our employment team will define and break down the terms of a contract whether you are negotiating a contract, seeking a way out of the contract or advise you if you or your employer are in breach of that contract.
Merger & Acquisitions
Team members of Mesav Partners are commercially attuned to our clients’ needs. The business objectives of our clients drive the pace of our transactions. Our Property Lawyers are made up of experts covering the full scope of commercial work and includes litigators experienced in handling property disputes. The Commercial Property team has the resources and the project management experience to deliver portfolio acquisitions and disposals and large scale lending projects on time and in budget.
Founding Partner
Att. Muhammet Enes SAVAŞ
EDUCATİON;
– University of Sussex, Master of Int. Commercial and Trade Law, LLM
– Istanbul University, Bachelor of Laws
COURSES & STUDİES;
– University of Oxford, Int. Commercial Arbitration
– Queen Mary University, Impartiality in Investment Treaty Arbitration
– International Maritime Organisation, Safety in the Intermodal Supply Chain
– SCEG, Maritime Security
EXPERIENCES;
– AKT Law Firm, Intern Lawyer, Istanbul (2015-2016)
– Savas Shipping Ltd, Director, Istanbul (2016-2017)
– King & Spalding International Law Firm, Law Clerk, London (2018-2020)
PUBLICATIONS;
– The Role of ICSID Arbitration and the Enforcement of Arbitral Awards Against State Immunity, University of Sussex, 2019
LANGUAGES;
-Turkish
-English