Prof. Dr. Aslı E. Gürbüz Usluel combines her academic work in commercial law with many years of legal practice. She advises Turkish and foreign companies, particularly on corporate law, commercial contracts and corporate structuring, prepares legal opinions and serves as an expert witness and arbitrator. A graduate of TED Ankara College and Ankara University Faculty of Law, Usluel completed her master’s degree at Erasmus University Rotterdam and her doctorate at Ankara University Institute of Social Sciences, and conducted part of her academic research at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg and the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law.
Usluel began her academic career in 2003 as a research assistant at Bilkent University Faculty of Law and served as a faculty member there from 2009 to 2025. During this time she taught undergraduate and graduate courses, primarily in commercial law, and alongside her academic work took on various administrative roles, including Vice Dean. She is currently a Professor at Ankara Medipol University Faculty of Law.
Usluel’s areas of work centre on corporate law, sustainability and the law of negotiable instruments. In corporate law, she works on mergers and acquisitions, groups of companies, share transfers and share purchase agreements, shareholders’ agreements, family businesses and family constitutions, the drafting of articles of association, the functioning of corporate bodies, joint venture agreements, cooperatives and the protection of trade secrets. In sustainability, she focuses on the legal obligations and risks that environmental, social and governance issues create under corporate and commercial law.
Usluel has published books, articles and conference papers in these fields at national and international level, covering topics such as dispute resolution in international joint venture agreements, the shareholder’s right to dividends in joint stock companies, the protection of trade secrets, the European green bond and the institutionalisation of family businesses. She currently leads the TÜBİTAK-funded project “The Legal Dimension of the Due Diligence Obligation in Sustainable Supply Chains in the Context of the Green and Digital Transition”.
Alongside her academic and professional work, Usluel has also served as a commission member within the Mediation Department of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Türkiye.
