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Zilin Hu

Citizenship Advisor

Telephone: +90 216 455 80 98
Telephone: +90 216 510 05 72
Email: [email protected]

Zilin Hu has recently joined our team in Istanbul. She is acting as a Citizenship by Investment Advisor mainly advising our Chinese clients.

Zilin has a fantastic background tuning from the Asian to the Western culture, dynamically explored from the Actuarial Science (Msc.) to the Financial & Commercial LLM both in the British universities, intensively collaborated from the financial service industry to the legal world, and simultaneously served two directorship in the EU and South Africa for the Chinese investors. In her vision, the world is globe.

She believes that each clientele deserves a dedicated manner to reach their ultimate expectation from the leading expertise for Citizenship Program in Turkey, to be taken care of their major concerns from a professional legal aspect, as well as to enjoy the journey turning from a foreign country to a lovely home.

Zilin Hu is the new blood for our Global and Turkish Citizenship by Investment practice, and her contribution to Ketenci & Ketenci has been excellent so far for our Chinese clientele.

Academic Qualification

Financial & Commercial LLM, 2019, University of Central Lancaster, UK

Actuarial Science (Msc.), 2011, University of Kent, UK

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Dilara Sarıoğlu

Associate

Telephone: +90 216 455 80 98
Telephone: +90 216 510 05 72
Email: [email protected]

Dilara has recently joined our team in Istanbul as a Senior Associate. Her practice mainly concentrates on corporate and commercial law with a focus on M&A and daily corporate governance issues.

She has an excellent background and advised international clients on their acquisitions and joint ventures with Turkish entities as well as their corporate affairs and setting up and restructuring their companies.

Dilara currently advises our international clients on a wide range of issues including corporate, commercial, labor law, immigration law, real estate law and transportation law.

She is specialized in providing clients with global, practical and tailor-made solutions to their day-to-day or strategic legal requirements in relation to national and international commercial contracts.

She was graduated with distinction from Marmara University Law Faculty back in 2015. She has completed her LL.M at Marmara University in Private Law and İstanbul University in Corporate and Commercial Law. She is fluent in Turkish and English.

Bar Admission

Istanbul Bar Association (2015)

Academic Qualification

Marmara University, Turkey

Westbourne Academy, 2015-2016, UK

Marmara University LL.M

İstanbul University LL.M

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Selenay Özkavaklı

Associate

Telephone: +90 216 455 80 98
Telephone: +90 216 510 05 72
Email: [email protected]

Selenay Özkavaklı was graduated from Yeditepe University Law Faculty with high honours. She had admitted to the university with merits and an excellent degree as a top student in nationwide exam in Turkey.

Prior to her legal internship period, she participated a variety of programs and symposiums on International Migration Law, Medical Law, Sports Law, IT Law and Personal Data Protection Law as well as actively joined club activities in the university.

After graduated from Law Faculty, Selenay has joined Ketenci&Ketenci team as a legal intern. She mainly focuses on Corporate, Immigration, Commercial law and related matters and International Commercial Arbitration.

She has excellent command of English and is at the beginner level of German.

Bar Admission

Istanbul Bar Association, 2020

Academic Qualification

Yeditepe University Faculty of Law (2020)

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Eda Ketenci

Partner / Istanbul

Telephone: +90 216 455 80 98
Telephone: +90 216 510 05 72
Email: [email protected]

Eda is a Partner of Ketenci&Ketenci, mostly focusing on residency and citizenship matters. Global citizenship is a new concept acknowledged by the World, defining an interdependent way of living within multiple communities—cities, regions, states, nations etc. and Eda takes pride in promoting the development of this notion in Turkey as well.

She advises clients on many citizenship and investment programs applied by various countries and states all around the World. She is passionate about assisting clients that are looking for relocation or 2nd citizenship opportunities by way of residency, investment or property purchase.

She is also an experienced lawyer on Competition and Anti-Trust matters, as having worked for a major Competition Law firm for more than 4 years. She represents clients in merger control, exemptions and negative clearance filings and cartel investigations, and also provides general competition law advice to the clients.

Her practice includes Corporate Law, Property Law, Tax Law and Personal Data Protection.

She is a registered Mediator authorized by the Turkish Ministry of Justice. She has memberships of European Lawyers, Women Lawyers Association as well as Kagider.

Bar Admission

Istanbul Bar Association (2015)

Academic Qualification

Ankara University, Master's degree – 2013

Selçuk University, LLM – 2008

Industries

Global Citizenship
Real Estate
Private Equity

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Herdem Gültekin

Director / Istanbul

Telephone: +90 216 455 80 98
Telephone: +90 216 510 05 72
Email: [email protected]

Herdem Gültekin Çaylak is a Managing Director and Citizenship Advisor at Ketenci&Ketenci. Based in Istanbul, her responsibilities include working extensively with Clients on Turkish Citizenship by Investment and ensuring diligent processing of client applications in line with the Turkish law and migration regulations. She also foresees firms operations in Turkey. Herdem has an extensive knowledge of Turkish and global residency and citizenship acquisition procedures. She is fluent in Turkish, English and French and holds a Bachelor Degree from Marmara University.

Academic Qualification

Department of French Language Teaching, Marmara University (2011).

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Güvenç Ketenci

Owner&Managing Partner

Telephone: +90 216 455 80 98
Telephone: +90 216 510 05 72
Email: [email protected]

Güvenç Ketenci is a leading, international and influential lawyer in Turkey. Graduated from Harvard Business School and Marmara University Law Faculty, he advises and represents clients in relation to their legal needs and requirements in Turkey. Mr. Ketenci has a wide corporate migration expertise and advises on Turkish Citizenship and Global Citizenship and Residency by Investment. He acts for a wide range of clients including HNWI Clients, investment funds, and financial institutions. Some of his clients also included Fortune 500 Corporations operating in Turkey.

Mr. Ketenci is a member of the Investment Migration Council (IMC), which is the worldwide, leading association for investor immigration and citizenship-by-investment, bringing together the leading stakeholders in the field.