Founding Partner

Ahmed Pekin is the founding senior partner of Pekin & Pekin, established in 1971 in Istanbul and now one of the most prestigious and largest independent corporate firms in Turkey. Renowned as an outstanding attorney, Ahmed Pekin has an unrivalled breadth of knowledge across many practice areas. He is a highly experienced litigator and advises on complex banking and finance, project finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate law and taxation matters. He has led the majority of large scale transactions in the jurisdiction, notably in the banking sector, and has won numerous accolades and awards in his long career.

Ahmed Pekin is widely acknowledged as a leading lawyer in Turkey and as such is regularly called upon to contribute to draft legislation on Turkish banking law in particular. Most recently he has helped sculpt the new Islamic Sukuk law.