Mr. Yaman Gürsel

Three Crowns LLP, Washington
Nationality: Turkey
Course: Secured Transactions Law

 

Yaman Gürsel is a Turkish-qualified lawyer, who holds an LLM from the University of Fribourg/Freiburg (Switzerland) and an LLB from Istanbul Bilgi University. Currently, he is doing a second LLM at Georgetown Law Center as a Kronstein fellow, while doing an externship at Three Crowns LLP in Washington DC.

His fields of expertise are international commercial arbitration, investment arbitration, and secured transactions. He has worked on a number of international arbitrations related to commercial, investment, and sports disputes, subject to Swiss and Turkish law.

After he completed his LLM studies at the University of Fribourg (magna cum laude), he got admitted doing a Ph.D. in private law under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Pascal Pichonnaz. His doctoral dissertation is based on a comparative analysis of floating charges and non-possessory pledges over movable assets, aiming at optimizing access to financing for SMEs. He has published several articles in relation to his area of specialization, comparative secured transactions law with a particular focus on the non-possessory security interest over movable properties.