A discreet practice for principals — built around cross-border settlement, jurisdictional structuring, and the small but decisive interventions that make complex matters move.
We work with founders, family offices and operating companies whose cases sit at the seams of jurisdictions — where the answer is rarely on a website, and never in a brochure. Our work is, by design, narrowly described in public.
What we will tell you here is the shape of the practice. The rest is for the room.
Every engagement is led personally by Cigdem Cimen and supported by a curated bench of counsel, bankers, and licensed operators across Turkey and the Gulf.
Our oldest practice and our flagship. Multi-jurisdiction settlement architecture for B2B and private clients — banking relationships, escrow, payment routing, and bespoke compliance navigation under any acceptable framework.
We work where standard banking files an exception. KYC engineering, source-of-funds documentation, and counterparty interfaces designed so the file presents cleanly the first time.
Bespoke mandate · by enquiryA newer extension of the practice. Reorganisation of supply chains and trade documentation for goods that need to reach a market through the right jurisdiction — free-zone routing, processing operations, certificate workflows, and re-export structures.
We design the operating footprint and paper trail; you keep moving product without the customs surprises that grind quarter-end to a halt.
Bespoke mandate · by enquiryInvestment-based citizenship in Turkey and the UAE Golden Visa, end-to-end. We draft the file, place the asset, coordinate the bank, and manage the family relocation behind it — schools, healthcare, residency renewals.
By engagementResidency-eligible property in prime corridors of the Turkish Riviera and the Emirates — sourcing, due diligence, escrow, leasehold or freehold, and post-acquisition management.
By engagementInfluencer marketing and brand campaigns built around real conversion in Arabic and Turkish markets. Vetted creators, performance contracts, fluent local briefs.
By campaignA standing brief for a small number of clients whose situations don't fit the categories above. By referral, by retainer, in writing.
Strictly by referralCigdem opened Country Permit to do the kind of cross-border work most advisors quietly outsource — and to do it from the same room.
Every mandate is led by her personally. She works between Antalya and Dubai, in English, Turkish and Arabic, and keeps a small bench of counsel, bankers and licensed operators on call so each file moves through one accountable hand instead of a relay race.
Most of our work arrives by referral. So does most of what we recommend back.
Encrypted message or referral introduction. We answer within forty-eight hours.
Thirty minutes with Cigdem, no charge. We will tell you honestly whether your case is for us.
Scope, fee, timeline, deliverables. Nothing begins until both parties have signed.
Senior-led execution with monthly reviews and a closing memorandum on completion.
We accept a small number of new mandates each quarter. The first conversation is private, on us, and without obligation.
Konyaaltı Business District
By appointment
Dubai International Financial Centre
By appointment
New engagements are accepted strictly on referral or after introductory correspondence.