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I'm  partner of Yiğit Yücel Int. Law Firm and  lecturer on LLM Program on Banking Law at the İstanbul Gedik University Law Faculty    I'm  planning to establsh Yiğit Yücel Int. Mediation and Arbitration Center with kindly efforts of other partners soon.

Firstly I graduated from Ankara University Law Faculty and registered to Ankara Bar Association. My business carrier was started in the Development Bank of Turkey as a lawyer in 1994 after I took master- degree in Commercial Law from Banking and Commercial Law Institute at my Faculty and promoted as a senior lawyer in 1998. During this term, I had given legal advices related to many international projects that realized both in Turkey and in abroad with co-operation between Bank and the other international financial institutions/banks. I had made many loan agreements based on international project finance on behalf of mentioned Bank. I had also followed up national and international cases before the courts both in Turkey and an abroad and participated as principal negotiator on the international conflicts between the Bank and the other institutions such as IFC until 2000. Thereafter, I had followed up many cases before the Court of First Instance, the Court of Cassation and Council of State on behalf of Turkish Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BRSA) as founder of legal department. During this period, I had been giving legal advices related to banking/ commercial cases sued against Turkey before European Human Right Court during at almost twenty years’ period until my retirement. Meanwhile, I had worked for re-organizing defaulted loan assets, winding up and preparing core assets sales agreements for Turkish Saving Deposit Insurance Fund of Turkey (SDIF) and given legal advices to the board of BRSA and SDIF related to many civil/public, national and international conflicts. I had made Impact Analysis Survey for evaluating BRSA secondary legislation for two years’ period between in 2006-2007. In addition to, I had joint in different research projects and Basel Implementations based on risk focus as a legal analyzer and prepared different reports for BRSA.
Moreover, considering the international journey of my carrier, I have been Turkish President of Women Interest Group of IBA since 1998 and was the President of National Committee of International of Association of Lawyers (UIA) between in 2007-2012. I had been serving as Counselor to the UIA President between in Dec. 2013.-Nov.2021 in addition to, I was former Web- Director and current Vice President of UIA Banking and Financial Services Committee since Jan.2019, and former Secretary of UIA Mediation and Conflict Prevention Committee between in 2016-2020.   I worked at Mediation and Arbitration Department of Turkish Ministry of Justice (TMOJ) as temporary personnel between in Sept.2016- Sept.2017. During this term, I gave counselling related to legislation workings for both revised Mediation Act and Code on Labor Law at the national level and recent international developments in addition to legal advices for securitization, banking, financing and arbitration laws. I made many workings for adopting to Turkish legislation regarding published on international literature books.  For increasing the developing mediators’ abilities and capacities, I worked with the coordinator of "Project on Better Access to Justice” together by kindly sponsoring of British Embassy and I organized many national and international seminars regarding not only for mediation but also arbitration in different cities around Turkey. I worked with ISTAC for inserting ISTAC arbitration clauses into their national and international contracts by Turkish public authorities. I'm  native Turkish speaker and  very fluent in English and can communicate in French.