Why Choose Serka Law Firm
Serka Law Firm is an international law firm that represents foreign individuals, expatriates, investors, and companies in cross-border legal matters wherever the file sits, with Turkish law its deepest specialism, working directly with the lawyer who runs the file and writing to its clients in their own languages.
This page explains who the firm helps, what it does, and how it works, so you can judge whether it fits your matter before you make contact. The case for engaging the firm is built on verifiable capability: a practice that runs each file in the client’s own language, direct communication with the lawyer who runs the file, and named cross-border practice areas run under the statutes of each country involved and the international conventions, rather than on slogans or marketing numbers.
Who does Serka Law Firm help?
Serka Law Firm helps international clients wherever their legal matter sits, including foreign nationals applying for residence or citizenship, investors buying property or structuring company formation, expatriates managing family or employment issues, and businesses pursuing or defending cross-border disputes. The common factor is a need for Turkish-law work to be handled in a language the client understands and coordinated with their position in another jurisdiction. If your matter is purely domestic and involves no international element, a local generalist may serve you just as well.
The firm is built for situations where documents are issued in one country, assets or counterparties sit in another, and the same factual record has to stand up before a court, registry, bank or authority in each of those countries. That is where multilingual handling and cross-border coordination stop being a convenience and become part of the legal work itself.
What does the firm do?
Serka Law Firm provides advisory and dispute work in every country a file touches, each matter tied to the governing framework of that country rather than offered as a generic service list. The areas below reflect the firm’s actual capability, and most cross-border files draw on more than one of them at once.
- Immigration and residence permits, handled under Law No. 6458 on Foreigners and International Protection.
- Citizenship by investment, structured under the Turkish Citizenship Law No. 5901 and its implementing Regulation.
- Corporate and commercial law, including company formation, contracts, and ongoing counsel.
- Real estate transactions, including acquisition, due diligence, and title work.
- Criminal defense for foreign nationals and cross-border matters.
- Family law, including marriage, divorce, custody, and the cross-border recognition of foreign orders.
- Debt recovery and enforcement proceedings.
- Employment law for employers and employees.
- Maritime law.
- Technology and data privacy.
- Dispute resolution and international arbitration, including enforcement of arbitral awards under the New York Convention.
- Recognition and enforcement of foreign court judgments and arbitral awards.
For the matters clients raise most often, the dedicated service pages set out the detail, including corporate and commercial law, immigration and residence permits, and international arbitration.
How does the firm work?
The firm works by turning an inquiry into a structured file before recommending action, separating the client’s objective, deadline, jurisdiction, documents, counterparties, and practical constraints so that advice is concrete rather than abstract. The first review identifies what is already usable, what needs translation or certification, and which facts must be proved before a court, registry, bank, authority, or opposing party. The output is a workable plan, the required documents, the immediate risks, the likely sequence, and the next step, not a generic answer.
Communication is direct. You deal with the lawyer responsible for your matter, in a language you are comfortable in, and the process is kept transparent so you can see what has been done and what comes next. For cross-border files, the same discipline extends to language consistency across documents, enforceability in more than one legal system, and keeping a single clean factual record that holds wherever it is tested.
What does cross-border capability actually mean here?
Cross-border capability means the firm is set up to make a document issued in one country verifiable in another and to make an outcome won in one country usable in the next. In practice that involves reconciling transliterated names across jurisdictions, documenting the lawful source and path of funds from origin to a Turkish transaction, aligning civil-status records issued under foreign law with what Turkish institutions expect, and structuring a matter so a judgment or award obtained in one forum can be recognized and enforced in another. Enforcement of foreign arbitral awards, for example, runs through the New York Convention, to which Turkey is a party.
Because most international matters involve obligations in more than one country, the firm coordinates the work in each country with the client’s wider position rather than treating it in isolation. A residence or citizenship file may need to serve later company formation or mobility planning, and a dispute may need to be framed from the start for enforcement across borders.
Why engage Serka Law Firm?
The reason to engage Serka Law Firm is specific capability, not a claim of being larger or more prestigious than anyone else. The firm, founded by Av. Serkan Kara, runs each file in the client’s own language, gives clients direct access to the lawyer who runs the file, and runs a defined set of cross-border practice areas under named statutes and conventions including Law No. 6458, the Turkish Citizenship Law No. 5901, and the New York Convention. The value is a matter handled by someone accountable for it, in your language, with the cross-border angle built in from the first document.
To see how this approach plays out in practice, review about the firm, or read more on the Serka entity. What clients wrote about that work on Google is quoted, as they wrote it, in Serka Law Firm reviews.
Frequently asked questions
Who founded Serka Law Firm, and who runs it?
Serka Law Firm was founded by Av. Serkan Kara, who has been in the legal profession since 2015. The firm has represented international and Turkish clients across cross-border matters, with each file handled directly by the lawyer who runs it. The firm’s approach has stayed consistent: clear analysis, realistic options, and disciplined execution on each matter it takes on.
What languages can I work in with the firm?
The firm runs each file in the client’s own language, which is why international clients can present documents and discuss their matter without translating their position twice. For cross-border files this is part of the legal work, not a courtesy, because language consistency across documents affects how a record is read by a Turkish court, registry, bank, or authority. Confirm the specific language coverage for your matter when you make contact. A client who needs the whole file run in English will find how that works on the page for an English-speaking lawyer in Turkey.
Does the firm only handle Turkish matters?
No. The firm takes matters in any country and any city, on any subject and in any language. Turkish law is its deepest specialism, never its boundary. That includes reconciling foreign documents inside a Turkish file, aligning civil-status and corporate records issued abroad, and structuring matters so a Turkish judgment or arbitral award can be recognized and enforced elsewhere, or a foreign award enforced in Turkey under the New York Convention. The Turkish-law work is coordinated with the client’s wider international position.
How do I start, and will I deal with the lawyer directly?
You start by writing to us with the basic facts of your matter: the objective, the deadline, and the documents in play. Communication is direct: your first message reaches Serka Law Firm and the firm answers it, on the office line and WhatsApp at +90 530 127 59 35 or at info@serkalaw.com.
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General information, not legal advice. Turkish law; verify your specific situation with qualified counsel.