Lawyers Asena Aytuğ Keser

Asena Aytuğ Keser

Asena Aytuğ Keser

Gün + Partners

Asena Aytuğ Keser has been with Gün + Partners since 2011 and is a managing associate. Her practice focuses on dispute management; business crime and anti-corruption; employment; insurance and reinsurance; administrative, tax and regulatory, and construction and real estate.

Asena advises and represents both national and international clients in various commercial and corporate disputes before courts and arbitral tribunals, including high-profile compensation cases, M&A and shareholders disputes, real estate and construction disputes and enforcement of foreign court judgments and arbitral awards. She has a specific focus on business crimes and she handles various disputes where the dispute contains the application of both civil and criminal law principles. Asena also represents many clients in regulated markets and her experience in dispute management also expands to administrative and tax law-related disputes.

She is also experienced in employment law. She provides consultancy and represents clients in relation to a wide range of employment law issues including preparation and negotiation of employment contracts, terminations, personnel management, reemployment and unjust competition actions.

Combining her experience in dispute management with insurance law, Asena focuses on the litigation aspect of the firm’s insurance & reinsurance practice. She represents and advises many clients in both local and London insurance markets, loss adjusters, international law firms and brokers for handling and management of disputes concerning various types of insurance carrying out settlement processes, assessment of claim amount and liability of respected parties as well as of policy coverage.


Practice Areas & Work Department

Dispute Management

Employment

Business Crimes and Anti-Corruption

Insurance and Reinsurance

Administrative, Tax and Regulatory

Construction and Real Estate


Languages

English

Turkish

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Enforcement of Foreign Judgments 2024 in Turkey - Part 2

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