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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 is a Gayrettepe, Besiktas / Istanbul practice built for foreign clients who need Turkish-law execution, not generic commentary. The firm runs a 15-language service stack and handles Turkey-facing files for clients from 35+ countries.
What does Serka Law Firm do?
Serka Law Firm is an Istanbul-based Turkish law firm founded in 2015 by Atty. Serkan Kara. The firm works with foreign individuals, families, investors, founders, and companies that need Turkish-law execution across citizenship by investment, residence permits, work permits, company formation, real estate, criminal defense, employment matters, and cross-border disputes. The work is procedural: match the legal route to the facts, sequence documents before filing, coordinate official follow-up, and keep multilingual clients aligned as the matter moves through Turkish institutions.
Core instructions usually involve citizenship route design before a USD 400,000 real-estate acquisition, residence and work-permit sequencing, company formation through trade registry and MERSIS, title-deed and bank-transfer risk review, enforcement, and cross-border disputes. 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 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.