Biography: Arbitration

Utku Cosar is a partner at Cosar Attorneys at Law in the dispute resolution department. Ms Cosar represents both public and private clients in international arbitration with extensive experience handling disputes involving state parties. Ms Cosar has acted as counsel in some of the largest arbitrations in Turkey, including numerous major international disputes.

Her recent experience includes representing Turkey in current ICSID arbitrations brought under the Energy Charter Treaty for an alleged total amount of US$18 billion. Other notable ICC experience includes advising a leading natural gas company in a dispute involving a foreign entity and representation of a company in a US$125 million construction dispute arbitration. In the recent years, Ms Cosar has represented clients in two other international arbitration cases before the ICC, both of which involved multi-hundred million US dollar compensation claims in the energy sector.

Ms Cosar is a member of the ABA, IBA, New York State Bar Association and Ankara Bar Association, is listed in Chambers and European Experts as a dispute resolution expert, and is admitted to practise law in New York and Turkey. She is the author of Turkey's chapter in Privilege and Confidentiality (IBA) and International Mergers: The Antitrust Process (Sweet & Maxwell) and serves on the editorial board of Dispute Resolution International Journal (IBA).

A graduate of Marmara University Law School, Ms Cosar has received two LLM degrees from Georgetown University: Law and International Legal Studies. Ms Cosar speaks fluent Turkish and English, and has basic knowledge of German.