Biography
Utku Coşar is an independent arbitrator at Arbitration Chambers with offices in New York, London and Istanbul. She specialises in commercial and investment arbitration and has extensive experience in energy, finance, shareholders’ and post-M&A/joint venture-related disputes, and investment arbitrations.
Prior to joining Arbitration Chambers, Utku was the senior partner at Coşar Avukatlik Burosu in Istanbul, acting as counsel in numerous high-profile international cases and sitting selectively as arbitrator.
Utku is a member of the LCIA Court and the Arbitration Court of the Swiss Arbitration Centre; Vice Chair of the IBA’s International Arbitration Committee; and a fellow at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). She serves on the editorial board of Dispute Resolution International, the journal of the dispute resolution section of the IBA, and on the ICCA Publications Advisory Board. Utku regularly speaks at conferences on international arbitration and has authored multiple publications on the topic. Among her most recent publications is “Fraudulent Evidence: Investment Arbitration,” in the MAX PLANCK ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INTERNATIONAL PROCEDURAL LAW, published by Oxford University Press.
Utku has been ranked in the first band and top tier for dispute resolution lawyers in Turkey by Chambers and The Legal 500 from 2008 to the present. She is a graduate of Georgetown University, with two LLM degrees in law and international legal studies, and is admitted to practise in New York and Turkey.