H. Gürbüz Sarı (Founder of SARI Legal Consultancy)
Legal Consultant
Attorney at Law (İstanbul Bar Association 2001)


Professional activities of Mr. Sarı:

• Gürbüz Sarı is author of books and numerous articles of law. He is acting as a lawyer since year 2000. He has professional experience in international public authorities, private companies, and as a legal consultant.
• He gives legal advices to his clients in specific fields including ICT and Telecoms law, energy law, corporate and commercial transactions. He advises especially on business setting up, company establishment and related transactions such as various agreements, etc. He manages contract negotiation process from drafting to finalization. The activities comprise all steps of dispute settlement and litigation.
• He represents clients before tribunals in real estate sector, advises both strategic and legal on huge construction projects
• He worked before in sectors with managed market by public authorities. He is interested in public economic law.
• He is dealing with legal problems deriving from new technologies.
• Having broad experience in the European Court of Human Rights, Gürbüz Sarı is dealing with very important cases before the ECHR as counsel.

Professional backround of Mr. Sarı:

• September 2007 to July 2009; TELLCOM İletişim Hizmetleri A.Ş. - Superonline (Turkcell Group Company) In House Lawyer. Main responsibilities are advising General Manager and directors for all legal issues, especially for compliance with law, managing regulatory work and relations with Regulatory Body for legal aspects, drafting and negotiating contracts, representation of the Company before courts and tribunals, managing corporate law issues of the Company.
• January 2007 - September 2007; BOZ Group Companies (Acting in construction and real estate sector) legal counsel. Main responsibilities were advising directors for all legal issues, drafting and negotiating contracts, representation of the group companies before courts and tribunals.
• September 2005 - January 2007; SARI&SARI law office, attorney at law. Main responsibilities were giving legal advices to clients, drafting contracts, Legal representation of clients during litigation procedures.
• September 2001- May 2005; lawyer at the Registry of The European Court of Human Rights. Main responsibilities were carrying out legal research and analyses related to cases submitted to the European Court of Human Rights, preparing draft decisions and judgements of The ECHR, advising non-national judges on Turkish law. Specialised essentially in protection of property regarding the ECHR system.
• March 2001 to September 2001; Öztoprak law office, lawyer

Educational backround Mr. Sarı:

• 2004-2007 Research carried out for PhD in Paris-1 Sorbonne University (research subject : Selection and award criteria on public procurement procedures, comparative work on EU-Turkish law)
• 2003; Master’s degree, Institute of Social Sciences, European Union Programme, Galatasaray University, (research subject: Judicial control mechanism on the European Union public procurement law)
• 2000; LL.B.  Law school, Galatasaray University
• 1995; Galatasaray High School