Mert Elçin is a Partner in the Istanbul office.

Mert has extensive experience in the full range of international arbitration, corporate, M&A and banking and finance transactions. He has advised clients across a range of sectors, in particular in international corporate, mergers and acquisitions, project finance, competition, insolvency, insurance and mining projects. Mert is also experienced handling international arbitration.

Mert Elçin is excellent, highly committed and an effective lawyer.

Mert Elcin is exceptionally smart, technically strong and eminently pragmatic.

Legal 500, 2025

EDUCATION

• 2012: European University Institute, Department of Law, Florence, Italy, PhD in Law (Full Scholarship from Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for PhD Studies)
• 2006: Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium, LL.M. In International and Comparative Law, Summa cum Laude
• 2004: Marmara University, Faculty of Law, LL.B

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

Istanbul Bar Association

LANGUAGES

Turkish, English