Yasemen Elif Çelik

Yasemen is Counsel at Igniters Tech Law, registered with the Istanbul Bar Association, whose practice is focused on helping entrepreneurs and technology companies take their first and most consequential steps into international markets. She graduated from Koç University Law School with a minor in Business Administration, a combination that gives her both the legal foundation and the commercial instinct to advise clients not just on what the law requires, but on what a business actually needs to grow.

Yasemen's legal formation is impressively broad for an attorney at her stage. During her studies, she gained hands-on experience at some of the most respected law firms in the Turkish market, where she worked on commercial, corporate, and M&A matters. After graduation, she joined Trendyol, one of Türkiye's largest and most dynamic e-commerce platforms, where she focused on technology contracts and intellectual property, developing a front-row understanding of how a high-growth tech company manages its legal infrastructure at scale.

At Igniters, Yasemen has built a distinctive and highly practical specialty: guiding founders and startups through the process of forming and structuring companies across multiple jurisdictions. Whether a client is incorporating a Delaware C-Corp to attract U.S. venture capital, establishing a presence in Dubai, setting up a holding structure in the Saudi market, or navigating the legal requirements of other international markets, Yasemen knows the terrain. She understands that the jurisdiction a company chooses, and how it is structured from day one, can have lasting implications for fundraising, governance, tax efficiency, and exit optionality. Her ability to manage multi-jurisdictional formation processes with clarity and precision makes her an invaluable partner for entrepreneurs who are ready to think globally from the start.

Her background in communications, she interned at several communications consultancy agencies during her studies, adds another dimension to her practice, giving her an intuitive ability to translate complex legal concepts into language that founders and operators can actually use. Outside the office, Yasemen is a dedicated reader with a growing list of cities she plans to explore, and she is quietly at work on a novel of her own, a reminder that the best attorneys are often the ones who never stop telling stories.