Av. Dr. Mehmet Feridun İZGİ

Auditing Board Member

Dr. Mehmet Feridun Izgi is a partner at Balcıoğlu Selçuk Ardıyok Keki Attorney Partnership in the fields of litigation, employment law, corporate law, and energy. Dr. Izgi. His practice mainly focuses on private law, especially dispute resolution, employment law, corporate law, and commercial contracts with extensive industry experience in energy and infrastructure, mining, insurance, life sciences, direct sales, and automotive industries.

Dispute resolution is one of Izgi,s main areas of proficiency. He has extensive experience in negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and litigation. With his doctoral education completed in the field of Procedural Law, he strengthened his professional experience in this field by combining it with academic knowledge. The disputes he worked on were not limited to the field of private law; but he also gained significant professional experience in administrative litigation in parallel with his experience in the field of energy law.

In addition to dispute resolution, Dr. Izgi provides comprehensive consultancy to its clients on all matters related to employment law. He has significant experience in areas such as termination processes, preparation of company procedures, compliance, execution of internal investigation processes, remote working and flexible working models, and cross-border employment relationships and unions.

Dr. Izgi,s experience in the field of commercial contracts and corporate law diversifies in line with the commercial needs of his clients, at every stage of the relevant processes, from the creation of the first draft of company documents or contracts to their legal negotiation, to the management of disputes arising in this regard, and spreads to many different areas.

He has provided legal consultancy and advocacy services in the energy industry in both conventional and renewable energy fields and has provided legal assistance to his clients at different stages of dozens of different energy projects (project development, pre-license, license, and operation). Construction contracts for the installation of energy facilities, bilateral agreements for electricity and natural gas trade, and the development of new business models in these industries are subjects on which Izgi has extensive experience. To date, İzgi has represented his clients in the merger and acquisition processes of many energy projects and has acted as a lawyer in a wide variety of dispute resolution processes arising from the energy industry.

Dr. Izgi is a member of many national and international organizations with the aim of representing his clients in the best way by playing an active role in the sectors in which he specializes. He is a member of the audit board of the Turkish Wind Energy Association.

Dr. Izgi graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Law in 2001, completed the Economics Law Master,s Program at Bilgi University in 2007, conducted research in the fields of energy and climate change law as a visiting doctoral candidate at Columbia University for a while, and in 2022 graduated from Yeditepe University private law doctorate program with his work titled  Quasi-Arbitration Methods Under Turkish Law and received his doctorate. Dr. Izgi is registered with the Istanbul Bar Association and speaks advanced English.