Izzet Sinan

İzzet advises clients in EU trade and customs cases, including complex issues of origin, as well as a broad range of other EU regulatory matters, including in the EU Digital Space. As a native Turkish speaker, İzzet has a long history of working with private and public companies from the Republic of Türkiye, as well as industry associations. He was actively involved in the negotiation of the EU-Türkiye Customs Union. He has practiced in Brussels since the early 1980s and is qualified to appear before the Court of Justice of the European Union. He represents clients in the aviation, chemicals, manufacturing, motor vehicle, and tourism industries.

Recent client comments in Chambers include: "İzzet Sinan definitely stands out. He is an exceptional competition lawyer with a very pragmatic approach.", "İzzet Sinan is a great strategist who is able to put things in perspective.", "He is excellent at handling complex situations.", "His ability to be flexible and to think on his feet is impressive.", and "He is very easy to work with and simplifies my life enormously; he just looks after everything and gives me the end product."

• Ongoing representations in the airline sector
• Represented Apollo Global Management  in relation to merger control work
• Represented Statoil in its onshore and offshore joint ventures with Rosneft
• Represented General Cable Corporation successfully defending the company and its subsidiaries in the power cables cartel
• Represented various supplier companies in the auto parts price fixing cases
• Represented Athora Holding Ltd. in relation to merger control work
• Represented CRH, plc in its acquisition of the divestiture assets in the Holcim/Lafarge merger