Sumru Akter is a Legal Counsel at Omni Bridgeway, responsible for assessing funding inquiries and managing funded matters in arbitration, litigation and cross-border enforcements.
Before joining Omni Bridgeway, she practiced law at Pinsent Masons where she represented construction and energy companies, financial institutions and distributors in operational disputes, debt recovery proceedings and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards. She also has experience before the European Court of Human Rights in relation to applications concerning the right to property and fair trial.
Sumru holds LL.M. degrees in international disputes from the CIDS (Geneva LL.M. in International Dispute Settlement), another one in Economic Law from the Galatasaray University (Turkey) and a degree in Bachelor of Laws from Marmara University (Turkey).
Turkey
English
Turkish
German
Netherlands
Amsterdam
International Commercial Arbitration
International Dispute Settlement
Transnational Litigation
International Arbitration
Private International Law
2015