Elif leads the Mergers & Acquisitions practice and co-heads the Banking & Finance, and Capital Markets practice. With over a decade of experience, she has built a significant track record advising financial institutions, listed companies, and private equity investors on complex, high-value transactions across multiple jurisdictions.

She advises in a broad range of sectors, handling domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, equity investments, and divestitures. In addition to her transactional work, Elif also provides strategic counsel on general corporate matters, banking, finance, and capital markets transactions. Elif advises clients on successfully navigating and operating within heavily regulated industries.

Elif attended to the LLM program at Queen Mary University, UK, and obtained her LLM degree in Banking & Finance Law.

Elif completed her LLM degree at Queen Mary, University of London in 2020. Her area of expertise focuses on domestic and cross border M&A transactions, project finance, banking & finance law and capital markets law.