Cem's experience

  • Representing a leading Turkish construction company in enforcement proceedings in the UK and the United States arising from a $38 million arbitral award against a CIS state.

  • Representing a leading Turkish football club in a transaction with an Irish counterparty, including advice on potential issues arising under English law.

    • Turkey; Ireland
  • Advised an investor in the banking sector, in relation to potential ICSID arbitration proceedings against a European state arising from the state’s expropriation of the client’s investment.

  • Representing a leading Turkish electronics company in the defence sector in an ICC arbitration against a U.S. manufacturer, arising from the unlawful termination of a distributorship agreement and a sales representation agreement governed by California and New York law, with the seat of arbitration in Los Angeles, California.

  • Representing a Maltese investor in an ICSID arbitration arising from an Eastern European State’s expropriation of an energy sector investment, involving breaches of the applicable treaty’s expropriation, fair and equitable treatment, most favoured nation, and national treatment obligations.

Credentials

  • 2026
    Joined Pinsent Masons
  • 2025
    Qualified - AIFC
  • 2025
    Qualified - Ireland
  • 2025
    Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP - Counsel
  • 2024
    Qualified - England and Wales
  • 2022
    Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP - Senior Associate
  • 2019
    Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP - Associate
  • 2018
    Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP - Visiting Foreign Lawyer
  • 2016
    Qualified - Istanbul
  • 2015
    Dokuz Eylul University - Turkish Law Equivalency Diploma
  • 2014
    Trinity College Dublin - LLM
  • 2013
    Université Paris Nanterre - LLB
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Out-Law / Insight by Cem Kalelioglu

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