North Nicosia
Law firm: Nekibzade Advocates
Responding attorney: Fadil Nekibzade
Partners: Vehit F. Nekibzade, Fadil Nekibzade
Addresses: Nicosia Branch: 2. Selim Avenue, 37H, Nicosia; Morphou Branch: 4B Alemdar Street, Morphou; Lefka Branch: 55 Ataturk Avenue, Lefke
Office Telephone: +90 392 22 78 560 (Nicosia Branch); +90 392 71 44 088 (Morphou Branch)
Fax: +90 392 22 77 560 (Nicosia Branch); +90 392 71 46 245 (Morphou Branch)
Mobile Telephone: +90 533 863 75 99 Fadil Nekibzade; +90 542 851 26 92 Vehit F. Nekibzade
Email: info@nekibzade.com; fadil@nekibzade.com
English: Fluent
Other Languages: Turkish, Greek, Hungarian
Education: Vehit F. Nekibzade – Istanbul University Law Faculty (1974); Fadil Nekibzade – University of Warwick – LLB Hons (2004), University College London – LLM in Maritime Law (2006), Middle Temple – Barrister at Law (unregistered), Registered on the Rolls of Solicitors (England)
Length and locations of legal practice: Since 1976 in Morphou and Lefka, since 2013 in Nicosia
Willing to take cases outside Nicosia?: Yes
Do you represent any U.S. law firms or companies?: No
Types of cases willing to handle: Intellectual Property Law (trademarks, trade names, patents), Family Law (divorce, custody of child, child abduction, restraining order, adoption), Corporate Law & Company Formation, Commercial Law, Property Law, Foreign Investments, Contract Law, Debt Collection, Joint Ventures, Construction Law, Insurance Law, Banking & Finance Law, Criminal Law, Inheritance & Probate Law (wills, inheritance tax), Wealth & Inheritance Planning, Personal Injury Law, Employment Law, Tenancy Law, Administrative Law. Our law firm provides legal consultancy and conducts litigation in all areas of law. For more details please visit our website www.nekibzade.com
Law firm: Bendasan Law Firm
Responding attorney: Ozlem Bendasan
Address: 21 Sht Gzt Adem Yavuz Street, North Nicosia
Office Telephone: 0090-392-2292647
Fax: 0090-392-2292648
Home Telephone: 0090-5338827555
Email: ozlembendasan@hotmail.com
English: Fluent
Education: LLB with Honors (Ankara University)
Length and locations of legal practice: At practice in Northern Cyprus for 7 years
Able to provide the services of a certified translator, court reporter, or stenographer?: Yes
Willing to take cases outside North Nicosia?: Yes
Do you represent any U.S. law firms or companies?: No
Types of cases willing to handle: child custody, marriage/divorce, insurance, banking/financial, commercial/business law, foreign investments, marketing agreements, criminal law, narcotics, contracts, corporations, estates, government relations, immigration, auto/accidents.
Law firm: Doratli & Doratli Law Firm
Responding attorney: Műnűr Salih Doratli
Partners: Family Business
Address: Beliğ Paşa Iş Hani, No. B-21-23, Sarayőnű, North Nicosia
Office Telephone: 0090-392-228-6543, 0090-392-227-5192, 0090-392-815-6378
Fax: 0090-392-227-4635; 0090-392-815-6378
Home Telephone: 0090-392-227-5303
Email: m.doratli@gmail.com, aygundoratli@kibris.net
English: Fluent
Education: University of Buckingham (England)
Length and locations of legal practice: At practice for 10 years
Able to provide the services of a certified translator, court reporter, or stenographer?: Yes
Willing to take cases outside North Nicosia?: Yes
Do you represent any U.S. law firms or companies?: Represents some individual Americans
Types of cases willing to handle: family law, insurance, banking/financial, foreign investments, marketing agreements, patents/trademarks/copyrights, civil law, criminal law, damages, narcotics, contracts, aeronautical/maritime, foreign claims, estates, government relations.
Law firm: Metin Hakki & Murat M. Hakki
Responding attorney: Murat Metin Hakki
Partners: Mr. Metin A.Hakki (former “Chief Justice” of the “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus”)
Address: Hakki Han, Floor 1, 23 Sarayonu Street, Lefkosa, Northern Cyprus via Mersin 10-Turkey
Office
Telephone: Metin Hakki : 0090-392-227-7975, 0090-542-852-0845 Murat Hakki 0090-392-2272 668
Fax: 0090-392-2272559
Home Telephone: 0090-392-227-3742
Email: murathakki@yahoo.com
Languages: English (Fluent), Turkish (native), French (intermediate), Arabic (intermediate), Greek (elementary)
Education: 2006-2007: Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice (PgDip L.P.), BPP Law School in London
2004-2006: Master of Arts (A.M.), Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
Summer 2004: Cornell-Paris I Summer Institute in Paris, focusing on several areas of international commercial law
2003-2004: Master of Laws (LLM), Cornell Law School, (U.S.) (HONORS)
2002-2003: Master of Laws (LLM) in Commercial & Corporate Law, London school of Economics (UK) (MERIT)
1999-2002: Bachelor of Laws (LLB), University of Southampton (UK): 2:1
Length and locations of legal practice: Responding attorney has worked in Cyprus since August 2008, obtaining a law license in both northern Cyprus and the Republic of Cyprus in October 2009. He is a member of the New York State Bar and, in December 2009, was in the process of gaining admission to the Bar of England and Wales.
Able to provide the services of a certified translator, court reporter, or stenographer?: No
Willing to take cases outside North Nicosia?: Yes
Do you represent any U.S. law firms or companies?: No
Types of cases willing to handle: banking/financial, commercial/business, foreign investments, patents/trademarks/copyrights, civil law, commercial law, contracts, corporations, government relations.
Law firm: Ozdil & Seytanoglu Law Firm
Responding attorney: Umit Asim Ozdil
Partner: Dervis Ersun Seytanoglu
Address: 24 Mufti Ziyai Street, P.O. Box 554, Lefkosa, North Cyprus
Office Telephone: 0090-392-227-4061
Fax: 0090-392-228-8314
Home Telephone: 0090-392-227-4623
Email: uozdil@kktc.net
Webpage: n/a
Languages other than Native Language: Greek
Education: Barrister-at-Law; LL.B (Hons) University of Essex; LL.M (University of Cardiff); Dipl. LPC (London); enrolled as Solicitors in the UK; enrolled in the Roll of Advocates in the “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus”
Length and locations of legal practice: since 1977 in north Nicosia
Able to provide the services of a certified translator and court reporter?: Yes
Willing to take cases outside North Nicosia?: Yes
Do you represent any U.S. law firms or companies?: Yes
Types of cases willing to handle: family law, adoptions, parental child abduction, child protection, marriage/divorce, insurance, banking/financial (members of the firm are legal advisors to the “Central Bank of North Cyprus”), commercial and business law, foreign investments, marketing agreements, patents/trademarks/copyrights (INTA members), civil law, criminal law, damages, narcotics, collections, commercial law, contracts, transportation law, corporations, foreign claims, estates, taxes, government relations, labor relations, immigration, auto/accidents.
Law Firm: Ozerdag & Co.
Responding Attorney: Arzu Ozerdag
Address: Belig Pasha Ishani B38 – 40 Onar Street, Nicosia, Cyprus
Office Telephone: 0090 392 227 27 60
Fax: 0090 392 229 18 89
Home Telephone: 0090 392 223 71 40
Mobile: 0090 542 880 99 11
E-mail: arzuozerdag@yahoo.com
English: Fluent
Education: LL.B University of Dokuz Eylul, Izmir, Turkey
Length and locations of legal practice: At practice since 2002.
Able to provide the services of a certified translator and court reporter?: Yes
Willing to take cases outside North Nicosia?: Yes, in Kyrenia, Famagusta, and Morphu
Do you represent any U.S. law firms or companies?: No
Types of cases willing to handle: Family law, adoptions, child protection, marriage/divorce, insurance, banking/financial, commercial and business law, foreign investments, marketing agreements, patents/trademarks/copyrights, civil law, criminal law, damages, narcotics, collections, commercial law, contracts, transportation law, corporations, aeronautical/maritime, foreign claims, estates, taxes, government relations, labor relations, immigration, auto/accidents
Kyrenia/Girne:
Law Firm: Juris Law Firm
Responding Attorney: Minhan Sagiroglu
Partners: Barney Monahan & Levent Celaleddin
Address: 47 Cemal Gürsel Str., Turk Mahallesi, Kyrenia,Cyprus
Office Telephone: 0090 548 846 20 20
Fax: 0090 392 815 04 49
Mobile: 0090 542 852 04 74
Email: minhan@northcypruslaw.com
English: Fluent
Education: LLB (Hons), BA in ELIT
Length and locations of legal practice: At practice since 2000.
Able to provide the services of a certified translator and court reporter?: Yes
Willing to take cases outside North Nicosia?: Yes
Do you represent any U.S. law firms or companies?: No
Types of cases willing to handle: Family law, child custody, parental child abduction, child protection, marriage/divorce, insurance, banking/financial), commercial and business law, foreign investments, marketing agreements, patents/trademarks/copyrights, civil law, criminal law, damages, narcotics, collections, commercial law, contracts, transportation law, corporations, aeronautical/maritime, foreign claims, estates, taxes, government relations, labor relations, immigration, auto/accidents.
Law firm: Naomi Mehmet & Partners
Responding attorney: Naomi Ruth Mehmet
Address: Muharremoglu Apt No 1, Sariyer Sokak, Kyrenia, Cyprus
Office Telephone: 0090 392 816 04 40
Fax: 0090 392 815 07 02
Mobile: N/A
Email: naomi@nmplegal.com
English: Fluent
Other languages: German
Education: LLB with Honors (University College, London), Post-graduate diploma in Legal Practice
Length and locations of legal practice: At practice since 2003.
Willing to take cases outside Kyrenia?: Yes
Do you represent any U.S. law firms or companies?: No
Types of cases willing to handle: Family law, child custody, parental child abduction, child protection, marriage/divorce, banking/financial, commercial/business law, foreign investments, marketing agreements, patents/trademarks/copyrights, civil law, damages, collections, commercial law, contracts, corporations, estates, auto/accidents.
Law firm: Sener Law Firm
Responding attorneys: Mustafa Sener & Hüseyin Çelikli
Address: Mustafa Çağatay Cd. No 41, Kyrenia, Cyprus
Office Telephone: 00 90 392 815 46 94
Fax: 00 90 392 815 46 95
Mobile Telephone: 00 90 542 881 20 58 & 00 90 548 877 17 66
Email: mshener@senerlawfirm.com hcelikli@senerlawfirm.com
Languages : English (Fluent)
Length and locations of legal practice: At practice since 2006.
Able to provide the services of a certified translator, court reporter, or stenographer?: Yes
Willing to take cases outside Kyrenia?: Yes
Do you represent any U.S. law firms or companies?: No
Types of cases willing to handle: Family law, child custody, parental child abduction, child protection, marriage/divorce, insurance, banking/financial, probate law, commercial/business law, foreign investments, marketing agreements, patents/trademarks/copyrights, civil law, criminal law, damages, narcotics, collections, commercial law, contracts, transportation law, corporations, aeronautical/maritime, foreign claims, estates, taxes, government relations, labor relations, immigration, auto/accidents.
Law Firm: Gozel Halim Law Firm
Responding attorney: Batuhan Halim & Ruyam Oztuna
Address: 19, Ersin Aydın Street, Kyrenia, Cypeus
Office Telephone: 0090 392 815 22 84
Mobile: 00 90 542 853 89 64
Fax: 0090 392 815 58 36
Email:info@gozelhalim.net, batuhan@gozelhalim.net, ruyam@gozelhalim.net, tutku@gozelhal
English: Fluent
Education:
Batuhan Halim: Graduated from Eastern Mediterranean University Business Faculty and continued his formal education being awarded his INT. MBA degree from Institut Superieur de Gestion, (ISG) France Business School and also awarded LLB from University of Cyprus.
Ruyam Oztuna: Graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Law in 1998 and she completed her post graduate diploma in Law at University of Westminster, London in 2001 and the College of Law, LPC in 2004. Rüyam was admitted to Bar of Istanbul in 1999 and also to the North Cyprus Bar in 2010.
Length and locations of legal practice: Our firm was established in 1972 in Limassol and at practice in Kyrenia since 1974.
Able to provide the services of a certified translator, court reporter, or stenographer?: No
Willing to take cases outside North Nicosia?: Yes
Do you represent any U.S. law firms or companies?: Yes
Types of cases willing to handle: banking/financial, commercial/business, foreign investments, civil law, commercial law, contracts, corporations, government relations, insurance, property.
Famagusta
Law firm: Aysegul Riza Law Firm
Responding attorney: Aysegul Riza
Address: No 33, Floor 2, Themis Center, Ilker Karter Street, Famagusta, Cyprus
Office Telephone: 0090 392 366 99 60
Mobile: 0090 548 844 74 92
Fax: 0090 392 36 69 970
Home Telephone: 0090 392 365 08 90
E–mail: ayesegulr@gmail.com ayesegulr@hotmail.com rizalawfirm@gmail.com
English: Fluent, (Turkish: Native, Greek: Elementary)
Education: LLB with Honors (University of Essex), LLM (Merit) International Maritime Law (University of Wales, Swansea)
Length and locations of legal practice: At practice since 2009
Able to provide the services of a certified translator, court reporter, or stenographer?: Yes
Willing to take cases outside North Nicosia?: Yes in Kyrenia, Famagusta, Morphou
Do you represent any U.S. law firms or companies?: Yes
Types of cases willing to handle: Family law, adoptions, child custody, parental child abduction, child protection, marriage/divorce, insurance, banking/financial, commercial/business law, foreign investments, marketing agreements, patents/trademarks/copyrights, civil law, criminal law, damages, narcotics, collections, commercial law, contracts, transportation law, corporations, aeronautical/maritime, foreign claims, estates, taxes, government relations, labor relations, immigration, auto/accidents