Melih Burak Bıçak advises clients on a broad range of corporate and commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, shareholder arrangements, joint ventures, private equity transactions, corporate restructurings, and strategic investment matters. He regularly assists clients with legal structuring, regulatory compliance, contractual negotiations, and operational legal matters, particularly for businesses with commercial, technological, and investment-focused activities.

His practice also includes legal advisory on commercial contracts, real estate transactions, lease agreements, employment law, data protection compliance, outsourcing arrangements, intellectual property-related commercial matters, franchising, agency and distribution structures, and business regulatory compliance.

Attorney Melih Burak Bıçak regularly provides legal services to foreign embassies and diplomatic missions in Ankara, advising on a broad range of legal matters including lease agreements, tenancy-related disputes, employment contracts, hiring and dismissal procedures concerning locally employed embassy personnel, and other operational legal matters. He also represents diplomatic missions and their personnel before Turkish courts, public authorities, and administrative institutions in both contentious and non-contentious proceedings. His advisory and litigation work has included legal support for diplomatic missions such as those of Italy, Spain, and Egypt, among others.

He also contributes to the preparation of expert witness reports and authoritative legal opinions on Turkish law for use in domestic and international proceedings, supporting clients involved in foreign litigation, arbitration, and complex cross-border legal matters.

Melih Burak is recognised for his pragmatic, responsive, and commercially focused professional approach. He takes the time to understand each client’s operational priorities and business objectives, enabling him to deliver efficient, strategically effective, and commercially practical legal solutions.

His legal work has included matters involving international corporate power purchase agreements, energy digitalisation and infrastructure projects, EU energy regulatory compliance, state aid and subsidy frameworks, critical infrastructure resilience, due diligence exercises, corporate restructuring, GDPR-related claims, and sophisticated transactional documentation.

His academic performance has been consistently distinguished. He graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Law. as a High Honour student after ranking among the top-performing candidates in Türkiye’s highly competitive national university entrance examination.

He regularly contributes to international legal and commercial dialogue through speaking engagements at conferences and professional forums in Türkiye and abroad.

His academic and professional presentations have included comparative legal analysis on cybersecurity and technology-related legal risks, including his paper “Fighting Cyber Terrorism: Comparison of Turkey and Russia” presented at the International Congress on Big Data, Deep Learning and Cyber Terrorismwith one of his Russian colleagues. He has also delivered international business-focused presentations, including “Trade and business opportunities, investment climate and financial situation in Turkey” at the Turkey Business Day Webinar hosted by the RSPP Mediation Centre in 2023, reflecting his growing international commercial and regulatory advisory expertise.

Melih Burak is a regular speaker at international conferences both in Turkey and abroad. At his sophomore year he presented a paper titled This experience improved him both academically and professionally.

Fluent in Turkish and English, Attorney Melih Burak Bıçak provides seamless legal support to international clients and plays an important role in Bıçak Law Firm’s corporate, embassy advisory, and cross-border legal practice.

Representative Legal Matters
– Advising and representing foreign embassies and diplomatic missions before Turkish courts, public institutions, and administrative authorities
– Advising diplomatic missions on lease agreements, tenancy disputes, employment contracts, and locally engaged staff-related legal matters
– Advising domestic and international clients on mergers, corporate restructuring, and shareholder arrangements
– Advising foreign investors on real estate transactions, investment structuring, and regulatory compliance
– Preparing expert witness reports and legal opinions on Turkish law for domestic and international proceedings
– Advising on data protection compliance and GDPR-related legal matters
-Supporting clients in energy-sector transactions and infrastructure-related legal projects
– Advising on commercial contracts, operational compliance, and business dispute resolution

Admissions
Ankara Bar (2023)

Education
Ankara University Faculty of Law (LLB 2021)
Ankara Atatürk High School (English-Based Programme), Ankara

Languages
English
Turkish