Turkey

Özgür Kurucuk is a Turkish immigration lawyer. He is the founding partner of WiklundKurucuk Law Firm, an Istanbul-based advisory company that focuses on business and immigration law.

Attorneys at WiklundKurucuk serve entrepreneurs, investors and business owners in their needs of business incorporation, acquisition, licensing, investment, financing, capital raising and real estate transactions. With experience in the immigration law of both Turkey and the U.S., the team at WiklundKurucuk assists foreign workers and investors in employment- and family-based immigration, residency- and citizenship-by-investment in Turkey, as well as applications for the U.S. E-2 visas, EB-5 visas and green cards.

With over 10 years of experience, Kurucuk specializes in corporate and commercial law, intellectual property, energy law, project finance, banking law, international trading, mergers and acquisitions. His clients include financial institutes, companies in the clean energy industry, retailers, hotels and airports.

Before founding WiklundKurucuk, Kurucuk served as a senior associate at Yapı Kredi, a private bank in Turkey, where he concentrates on banking, finance and foreign trade. He also practiced corporate and commercial law, energy law, intellectual property law and criminal law while serving as a lawyer at a Istanbul-based law firm, Öngören Hukuk Bürosu.

Kurucuk holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Istanbul University and a master’s degree in law and information technology from Stockholm University.

Kurucuk speaks Turkish, English and Russian.