Zihni Gönen

Zihni Gönen is our exclusively recommended Legal Services expert in Turkey on the Advisory Excellence website. If you need assistance in this area, please contact Zihni directly using the contact details listed above.

Zihni is the managing partner of Gonen Law Office.

He has extensive experience in the fields of international trade, project finance, commercial finance, PPP projects, construction law with particular focus on FIDIC-based contracts and contract management. In addition to these practice areas, Zihni actively took part and succeeded in national and international arbitrations and dispute resolutions on behalf of national and multinational clients.

Zihni is a listed arbitrator in various national and international arbitration centres where he has been acting as an arbitrator and mediator in various national and international arbitration matters. He handled arbitrations at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, the International Court of Arbitration, the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, London Maritime Arbitrators Association, London Court of International Arbitration and Grain and Feed Trade Association and under the rules of the United Nations Commission on International Trade and Law.

Zihni has been actively advising foreign investors in their transactions and litigation and consultancy matters in Turkey and abroad.

His client portfolio consists of companies operating in different sectors including local and international construction companies, energy companies, international investors, investment funds and holdings.