ARI Attorneys at Law

Founding Partner

Dr. Benan Arı graduated from Gazi University Faculty of Law with an honour degree. After finishing her legal internship, Dr. Benan Arı started her master’s degree in Competition Law, Intellectual Property Law and Consumer Law at the Université de Rennes 1 in France and wrote her master’s thesis titled “Une Résolution Alternative en Droit de la Concurrence: La Transaction” on the institution of settlement, which is an alternative solution in competition law. Within her belief that learning is not an ending process in life, she completed her doctoral degree in Marmara University in the field of private law with her doctoral thesis titled “Bailment Contracts in Turkish Law” and earned her PhD title.

Dr. Benan Arı has a strong ability to adapt her knowledge to a large range of sectors due to her work with leading companies in different sectors. Dr. Benan Arı also has a good command of sectoral and technical legislation, as she has been consulting important sector associations for many years. Dr. Benan Arı has been providing legal assistance and consultancy to a large number of clients in Turkey since 2010 as the partner of ARI Attorneys at Law. She extensively advises clients on her specialized expertise in competition law, contracts law and the law of obligations; she also provides consultancy on intellectual property law, administrative law, consumer law and labour law. Alongside her consultancy services in different fields of law, she specializes in conducting compliance programs for her clients. This includes but is not limited to providing training to the employees of her clients and conducting mock on-site inspections to identify any risks that her clients may possess. She represented many clients in a variety of sectors including automotive, oil, cosmetics, durable consumer goods and insurance.

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Gazi University School of Law (2008, LLB); Université de Rennes I (2010, LLM); Marmara University (2023, PhD in Private Law, thesis titled "Bailment Contracts in Turkish Law")