13 LAWYER MONTHLY ADR AWARDS 2024 International Arbitration Lawyer of the Year TURKEY The expertise in the field plays an important role on the arbitrator’s end. Anyone with sufficient experience can act as arbitrator. To be entrusted with such responsibility and to be vested with such authority always intrigued me. Needless to say, the arbitral award duly rendered has the same binding effect and the enforceability with a domestic court decision. I call arbitration ‘the new normal’, or dare I say, ‘contemporary way of adjudication’. What are you most excited to be working on at the moment? There are couple of things. I contributed to an book on arbitration and it is on its way. I just came from Kigali (Rwanda) where I was invited to speak and I gave a speech on energy investment dipsutes during the OHADA Annual Conference hosted by FIPROD-ERSUMA. My next destination will hopefully be in Lome (Togo) where I am also invited to share my experience and knowledge in arbitration. I am currently working on an energy arbitration article to be published in an exquisite arbitration magazine. My posts will soon be published on the Kluwer Arbitration Blog. Also, I will be passing the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Fellowship Assessment to become an FCIArb. The arbitration cases where I act as party counsel at the moment thrill me, as I am experiencing new aspects and concepts each and every day. What figures in the legal sector would you count as your greatest inspirations? All these years, my father Cemal Sedat Dayıoğlu has been my mentor in every sense. Once I became a lawyer I started to look up to him even more, as he is a pure doyen in our profession. I would also like to mention my grandfathers. Both of them were lawyers. My grandfather from my father’s side passed away last year due to cancer. Until two days before he passed away, he worked from the hospital bed. My grandfather told me that I was the future of Dayıoğlu Family and of Dayıoğlu Legacy, that no matter what I should carry on with my professional life. A wish that I’ll honour and carry out for the rest of my life. Again, this showed me where I was coming from. This is in my genes. This is in my family. And I am proud of all of them. I am a proud daughter of her parents and of her grandfathers but mostly a proud and a very lucky mentee of her father. Q Q Is there a particular philosophy or set of values that informs your legal work? The values depend on the person. Be it for my legal practice or my private life, my unshakeable values are as follows: 1. Do not let anything unfinished go until the end, even if it seems to be unknown, fight for your ‘cause’ until the very end. Remember that you are responsible for the journey (legal fight), not necessarily for the destination (outcome). 2. Remember that if you step in the boxing ring you get punched. And that is where we are fighting. Do not let anything stop you. 3. Do not make promises you cannot deliver. Be clear about the expectations. Manage them. Q Q
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