Dogan Cosgun

Dogan Cosgun is the managing partner of Aksu Çalışkan Beygo Attorney Partnership (‘ASC Law’) and holds LL.B degree from İstanbul University - Faculty of Law, L.L.M degree from Marmara University.

Dogan Cosgun began his career as an associate in a mid-size law firm and moved to an in-house lawyer role in Asil Celik, a steel manufacturing company, in 1998. In 2000 Mr. Cosgun, as an in-house counsel, joined Yildiz Holding which is the holding company of Turkey’s largest FMCG group and the owner of Ulker, Godiva and Mcvities brands. Mr. Cosgun became the legal affairs manager in 2005 and the legal affairs director in 2007. Mr. Cosgun was responsible for litigation as well as M&A projects and one of his main role was the national and international protection of the IP rights of Yildiz Holding.

In 2008 Mr. Cosgun joined Turkuvaz Media Group as the Chief Legal Officer. Turkuvaz is the owner of various newspapers and magazines. During his position at Turkuvaz, Mr. Cosgun not only carried out the management of litigations but was also actively involved in contract negotiations for the production and international marketing of TV series and actively represented the group in the NGO’s that the media outlet was participant.

In 2011 Mr. Cosgun joined Avea, as the Chief Legal Officer. His responsibilities covered litigation, consultancy, he also actively participated on commercial contracts including the Mobile Virtual Network Operators contracts with major companies. When the management of Turk Telekom group of companies, including Turk Telekom, Avea and TTNET were consolidated, Dogan was appointed as the Chief Legal Officer of Turk Telekom Group in 2014. Being an important member of the executive team, Dogan has played important roles in the corporate governance of the Group especially during the management consolidation process. Thanks to the very successful results in the important litigations with Turk Telekom’s major competitor, a very successful settlement agreement has been concluded between these two groups, which has settled over 100 cases, whereby the other party paid 80 Million USD in addition to waiving their counter claims for which Turk Telekom had made 32 Million USD provisions.

Mr. Cosgun joined ASC Law as a managing partner and has been the head of litigation department also being actively involved in the M&A projects. Dogan leads 20 lawyers in the litigation department, which represents their clients in litigation as well as national and international arbitration and is serving for continuously increasing national and international client portfolio and practice areas. Through its experienced team, ASC Law provides world-class services to a broad range of the preeminent institutions and individuals. ASC Law prides itself on bringing together in a single law firm more than thirty lawyers with expertise in the areas of litigation, consultancy and debt collection and it has been at the forefront of the Turkish market with highly acclaimed work, particularly in the areas of dispute resolution, debt collection, corporate and M&A, and banking and finance.

Dogan Cosgun is the father to two children and is fluent in English and is in the intermediate level in Spanish.