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Elçin Karatay is a corporate lawyer specialized in corporate law, technology law, contracts law, M&As and joint ventures. As a separate focus area, with her objective to provide legal services on new unexamined areas of technology and law, and advising start-ups and technology companies, Elçin Karatay works intensively on creating legal structures for new technological developments.
Practice Areas & Work Department
Technology Contracts
Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies
Software and License Agreements
M&A
Cooperation Agreements
Representative Matters
Negotiation of technology and software contracts with a total value of 100 million USD in the last year
Completion of more than 20 M&A
Legal advice in 3 of Turkey’s largest crypto asset issuances
Legal advice to more than 30 projects and companied working on blockchain and crypto assets
Trainings at several state institutions and ministries, entities and organizations such as TÜBİTAK, BTK, FinTR
Education
Galatasaray University, Ph.D. in Private Law – Pending
Galatasaray University, LL.M. in Private Law – Thesis: “Review of American Law based Safe under Turkish Law”
Koç University, Bachelor of Law
Languages
English
Turkish
Memberships
Istanbul Bar Association
FinTR
IR Global
Global Blockchain Business Council