Halil Ercüment Erdem

A Senior Partner at Erdem & Erdem Law Office in Istanbul and Izmir, Turkey and Professor of Commercial Law at Galatasaray University in Istanbul. Prof. Dr. Halil Ercument Erdem

holds an LLM from Ankara University and a Ph.D from the University of Fribourg.

He is a member of the Istanbul Bar Association, the Vice–Chair of the ICC Commission on Commercial Law and Practice, member of the ICC Court of Arbitration, the ICC Incoterms Experts Group, the ICC Institute of World Business Law, council member of the ICC Turkish National Committee Arbitration, member of the Association Henri Capitant des Amis de la Culture Juridique Française, the Advisory Board of Istanbul Arbitration Centre (ISTAC), the Association Suisse de l’Arbitrage (ASA) and the International Bar Association (IBA).

He specializes in the field of competition law, international commercial law and arbitration and has published several books and articles on these issues.

Prof. Dr. Erdem has collaborated for many years with the ICC and has actively participated in several ICC Task Forces, drafting model contracts for international business (e.g. agency, distribution, confidentiality, mergers & acquisition, occasional intermediaries, Incoterms).

Prof. Dr. Erdem is independent Board member in several companies active in a variety of sectors including glass packaging, soda production, chromium chemicals production and port operation.

He speaks Turkish, English and French.