MLL Legal

Banking & Finance | Capital Markets | Corporate & M&A

Ülkü Cibik is a member of the firm’s banking & finance team. Her practice focuses on financial markets and banking law as well as corporate and commercial law.

Ülkü Cibik has particular expertise and broad experience in the area of structured products and derivatives (documentation, issuance, listing and registration). She is an authorised issuer representative at the SIX Swiss Exchange AG. Ülkü Cibik advises both domestic and international issuers with regard to the issuance and listing of structured products as well as the regulation and distribution of structured products. She is MLL’s delegate to the Swiss Structured Products Association (SSPA). Further, Ülkü Cibik is mandated personally by the SSPA to act as legal advisor and supports the Legal and Regulations division of the association.

Furthermore, her areas of expertise include investment funds and bond offerings, syndicated debt and structured financing and she also advises clients in Islamic finance transactions. In addition, Ülkü Cibik regularly provides advice on regulatory matters and works on crypto-currency related projects.

Ülkü Cibik set up and heads the Turkey desk based in Zurich. She speaks fluent Turkish and is a member of the Swiss Chamber of Commerce in Turkey. Ülkü Cibik also worked as a foreign associate (for six months) in a leading Turkish law firm in Istanbul where she broadened her network in the Turkish market, in which she maintains excellent relationships with Turkish lawyers and important Turkish business people. She advises Turkish clients on a regular basis with regard to their Swiss-Turkey related operations and transactions.

Counsel with MLL (since 2020), Associate with MLL (2017-2019), Associate with the Swiss office of an international law firm (2016-2017), Associate with a leading Swiss law firm (2014-2016), Foreign associate with Hergüner Bilgen Özeke, Istanbul (2014), Associate with a leading Swiss law firm (2011-2014), Research assistant at the University of Zurich Private Law Department (2010-2011), Associate with an international football association (2009), Law clerk at the District Court of Bulach (2008-2009), Junior Associate with a leading Swiss law firm (2007-2008)

University of Zurich, lic.iur. (2006)