Solak & Partners Law Firm

Technology and Finance Law

Managing Partner

Head of Technology and Finance Law

Elçin Karatay is a corporate lawyer specialized in corporate law, public and private company M&A, joint ventures and IPOs. Being a legal multidisciplinary lawyer, she also advises clients on their IP law and employment law related legal issues.

As a separate focus area, with her objective to provide legal services on new unexamined areas of technology and law, and advising start-ups and technology companies, Elçin Karatay works intensively on creating legal structures for new technological developments.

Following her career at Pekin&Pekin, she has started working  as Managing Partner at Solak&Partners Law Firm as of Dec. 2017

Representative Matters

Negotiation of technology and software contracts with a total value of 100 million USD in the last year Completion of more than 20 M&A Legal advice in 3 of Turkey’s largest crypto asset issuances Legal advice to more than 30 projects and companied working on blockchain and crypto assets Trainings at several state institutions and ministries, entities and organizations such as TÜBİTAK, BTK, FinTR

Turkish, English

Istanbul Bar Association FinTR Board Member IR Global International Bar Assocation ITU Seed, BAU Blockchain Center as a Mentor ARYA Women Investment Platform

Galatasaray University, Ph.D. in Private Law – Pending (2022-2026) Galatasaray University, LL.M. in Private Law – Thesis: “Review of American Law based Simple Agreement for Future Equity under Turkish Law” (2016) Koç University, Bachelor of Law (2014) Koc University, Minor Economics (2014)