Mehmet Köksal

Köksal was born in Rize, Turkey. His mother was an English teacher and his father (Tekin Köksal) was a judge. Law is a family tradition since the 2010s for the Köksal family.

Since 1996, Köksal has acted as an instructor and lecturer of commercial and corporate law, property law, contract law, and consumer protection law at various law schools. He is one of the founders of the Faculty of law at the Near East University in Nicosia, Cyprus and continues to hold his lectures there. Köksal also holds seminars at the Georg-Simon-Ohm-Hochschule in Nürnberg, Germany.

Köksal founded his own law firm in 1987. In 2007, Köksal turned his law office into a Partnership and continued his work, together with his partners, under the new name of Köksal Attorney Partnership. Today the firm operates in Turkish, German and English. Its office is located in Istanbul. Clients range from government officials to multinational companies. The Firm has done M&A deals for companies such as eBay, PayPal, and Wall AG as well as labour law agreements for companies such as Kempinski, GEA, and Erciyas Holding.

He attended the Kabatas Erkek Lisesi boarding school in Istanbul and later graduated at the Ankara University Law Faculty in 1986. Following his graduation, Köksal worked at the Gazi University as a research assistant until he was granted a scholarship for a PhD degree at the Konstanz University Law Faculty which he completed in 1995.

Mehmet Köksal (born August 9, 1963) is a Turkish lawyer, lecturer, and founding partner of the Istanbul and Munich based law firm Köksal Attorney Partnership.