Nihan Şefkatlioğlu
Nihan Şefkatlioğlu
In practice since: 2020
Department: Advisory, Litigation & Enforcement
Senior Associate

Nihan Şefkatlioğlu

Works on preventive advisory and dispute resolution in commercial law, employment law, contract law and the law of obligations.

Practice Areas

Commercial Law, Commercial Operations, Contract Law, Corporate Governance, Data Protection, E-Commerce Law, Employment Law, IT & Technology Law, Litigation & Mediation, Tax Law

About

Nihan Şefkatlioğlu is a senior associate in SCH-Legal’s Advisory and Litigation & Enforcement departments. She graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Law in 2019, completed her legal traineeship at the Bursa Bar Association, began practising in 2020 and joined SCH-Legal in 2022. She advises Turkish and international individuals and legal entities, mainly on commercial law, employment law, contract law and the law of obligations.

Her main areas of work include preventive legal advice, company incorporations, mergers, demergers and conversions, capital increases and decreases, investment rounds, the institutionalisation of family businesses, shareholders’ agreements and family constitutions. She also drafts and negotiates national and international commercial agreements such as purchase, cooperation, carriage, confidentiality, services and distribution agreements, and is involved in general assembly and board resolution processes as well as litigation and dispute resolution. She is a member of the SCH-Legal AI Group, which works on integrating artificial intelligence into legal practice.

Education

  • Bachelor of Laws, Ankara University, Faculty of Law (2019)
  • Training, Cross-Examination
  • Training, Current Practice under the Code of Civil Procedure
  • Training, Termination of Employment
  • Training, Overtime and Prohibited Work
  • Training, Protection of Software Rights
  • Training, Personal Data Protection
  • Training, KVKK Master Class
  • Training, Recent Amendments to the KVKK and Risks for Companies
  • Training, Share Transfers through Stock Options
  • Training, Contract Management for Start-ups
  • Training, Sustainability
  • Training, Generative AI Literacy
  • Symposium, Commercial Law Symposiums (I–IV)

Professional Registrations

Volunteer Work / Memberships

  • KVKK Arar
  • Privacy Compliance Network

Publications

  • Şefkatlioğlu, Nihan, “Kriminolojik Açıdan Ekonomik Suçlar” [Economic Crimes from a Criminological Perspective], Uludağ University, Department of Public Law, master’s paper, December 2021
  • Şefkatlioğlu, Nihan, “Ian McEwan’ın ‘Çocuk Yasası’ Romanında Geçen Olayda Yapılan Yargısal Değerlendirmenin ve Verilen Nihai Kararın Aarnio’nun Hukuki Yorumların Gerekçelendirilmesi Teorisi Bağlamında İncelenmesi” [The Judicial Assessment and Final Decision in Ian McEwan’s “The Children Act” in Light of Aarnio’s Theory of the Justification of Legal Interpretation], Uludağ University, Department of Public Law, master’s paper, December 2021
  • Şefkatlioğlu, Nihan, “Dar Anlamda Borcu Sona Erdiren Haller” [Grounds for the Extinction of Obligations in the Narrow Sense], SCH-Legal Akademi, June 2022
  • Şefkatlioğlu, Nihan, “Borcun veya Borç İlişkisinin Sona Ermesi” [Termination of an Obligation or Obligational Relationship], SCH-Legal Akademi, June 2022
  • Şefkatlioğlu, Nihan, “Anonim Şirketlerde Yapılan Pay Devrinde Ortaklar Pay Defterine İşlenen Kayıtların Hukuki Niteliği ve Silinmesi” [The Legal Nature and Deletion of Share Ledger Entries in Share Transfers in Joint-Stock Companies], SCH-Legal Akademi, September 2023

Languages

Turkish, English
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