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The institutional profile behind Serka Law Firm’s cross-border work
Founded in 2015 by Atty. Serkan Kara, Serka Law Firm operates from Gayrettepe, Besiktas / Istanbul and runs a 15-language legal service stack for clients from 35+ countries. The firm is built for Turkey-facing matters where foreign clients need one team to control the document sequence, the filing route, and the follow-up instead of juggling separate advisors.
The practice is structured around situations where fragmented advice creates cost or risk: citizenship and residence files, foreign-investor entry, company formation, real-estate acquisitions, banking-sensitive investments, enforcement, and disputes with international dimensions. Instead of separating legal analysis from execution, Serka Law Firm combines issue spotting, document sequencing, stakeholder coordination, and ongoing follow-up so the client can move from uncertainty to a controlled next step.
What the firm is built to do
- Represent foreign clients in matters connected to Turkey where timing, document quality, and sequence are decisive.
- Coordinate multilingual legal work across immigration, citizenship by investment, company setup, real estate, and disputes.
- Provide one accountable legal lane for filings, official follow-up, counterpart communication, and next-stage planning.
- Support clients that need both local Turkish-law control and a structure that makes sense from abroad.
Institutional story
Serka Law Firm was founded in 2015 by Atty. Serkan Kara, a Turkish attorney registered with the Istanbul Bar and the Union of Turkish Bar Associations. The firm grew around files where a foreign client needed one accountable legal lane in Turkey rather than scattered opinions: investor entry, citizenship and residence, company establishment, real-estate transactions, enforcement, and cross-border disputes.
That shaped the firm’s operating approach: identify the real bottleneck, define the most time-sensitive step, collect only the documents that change the outcome, and execute the route in an order that can stand up before Turkish authorities, registries, banks, counterparties, or courts. The result is meant to feel operational, not promotional.
Main practice clusters
- Citizenship by investment, residence permits, work permits, and immigration strategy.
- Company formation, foreign investment structuring, contracts, governance, and transaction support.
- Real-estate due diligence, title transfer support, and investment-linked legal work.
- Commercial disputes, enforcement, arbitration support, and urgent risk-control matters.