Ayse Yüksel has spent much of her life outside of her native Istanbul—starting with high school in England, then college, law school, and a law firm career in the United States—but she never lost touch with her homeland. When Yüksel joined Chadbourne & Parke as a partner in 2004, she immediately launched a Turkey practice. For the past seven years, she led the firm’s 20-lawyer Turkey, Middle East, and North Africa (MENA) group from Dubai and New York. That changed in September, when Chadbourne became the latest international firm to put out a shingle in Istanbul.
“I’ve been championing Turkish work for years,” says Yüksel. “Now, with the market booming, it seems I’m not the only one.”
