The institutional profile behind Serka Law Firm’s cross-border work
Founded by Atty. Serkan Kara, Serka Law Firm is an international legal advisory practice for clients who need coordinated legal execution across cross-border matters, not generic commentary. The firm carries both halves of a cross-border matter, from the first draft to the authority that must finally accept it. Every file of the firm is handled by Av. Serkan Kara himself, and he answers for each one personally.
Most instructions reach the firm when a decision with legal consequences is about to be taken in one country and those consequences will be felt in another. Instead of separating legal analysis from execution, the 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 clients in cross-border matters where timing, document quality and sequence are decisive.
- Run multilingual legal work as one file, across every language and country the matter touches.
- Provide one accountable legal lane for filings, official follow-up, counterpart communication, and next-stage planning.
- Support clients that need jurisdiction-specific legal control and a structure that remains understandable across borders.
Institutional story
Serka Law Firm was founded by Av. Serkan Kara. The firm grew around files in which a foreign client needed one accountable legal lane across every country involved rather than scattered opinions.
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 the authorities, registries, banks, counterparties, or courts of every country the file touches. The result is meant to feel operational, not promotional.
The founder
Serka Law Firm was founded by Av. Serkan Kara, holder of the CCBE Lawyer’s Professional Identity Card. He commands both great legal traditions, the continental and the common law, which is why cross-border work is ordinary here rather than exceptional.
Foreign missions in Istanbul hold his standing on their own record. On 1 October 2026 the Consulate General of Romania in Istanbul confirmed in writing that he is on the list of lawyers it gives Romanian citizens who seek legal advice; the sealed general powers of attorney that four other Consulates-General issued to him are shown on his profile.
Consulate General of Romania, 01.10.2026
The rest of the record, each item beside the place where it can be checked:
- On the Istanbul Bar roll since 28 April 2016: his entry in the Bar’s public register.
- The Istanbul Bar’s certificates of 28 August and 29 September 2026, the first stating that no disciplinary proceedings stand against him: the Bar’s document verification page, codes 941bb260 and 643ac616.
- The general powers of attorney of the Consulates-General of Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine: their sealed pages on his profile.
- The Russian Foreign Ministry’s list of lawyers in Turkey of October 2025, which carries the firm as Serka Hukuk Bürosu: the ministry’s consular page of lawyer lists.
- Vice President of TÜSODER, the Turkish consumer-rights association: its board page, archived 14 July 2026.
- His work at the Kumkapı Removal Centre beside the consuls of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, which laid the ground for an amendment to Law No. 6458 on Foreigners and International Protection: set out on his profile.
Read the profile: Av. Serkan Kara, founder.