Eda’s practice focuses on multi-jurisdictional disputes in international arbitration and litigation. She has advised on jurisdictional and substantive aspects of a wide range of commercial and investment treaty matters in ad hoc arbitrations under the UNCITRAL Rules and arbitrations under the rules of the major arbitral institutions, including the ICC, LCIA, SIAC, and ICSID.

Prior to joining Potestas Partners, Eda worked within the international dispute resolution group of a US law firm in London, where she was involved in large oil and gas arbitration disputes and a €10bn. class action lawsuit before the English courts against two data broker giants in relation to the use of third-party cookies for ad-tracking and targeting under the GDPR. She also held a research position at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) and taught at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) of the Queen Mary, University of London between 2016 and 2018.

Eda completed her PhD studies at the Graduate Institute, Geneva in 2020 on the interpretation of investment treaty obligations of the state. She holds an LLM Degree in International Law from the University of Cambridge. Her thesis on admissibility of shareholder claims for reflective loss in investment treaty arbitration was published in ICSID Review – Foreign Investment Law Journal in 2015.

Eda is a dual-qualified lawyer, admitted to practice in England & Wales and Turkey.

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PUBLICATIONS

• ‘Admissibility of Claims for Reflective Loss Raised by Shareholders in Local Companies in Investment Treaty Arbitration’ (2015) 30(2) ICSID Review – Foreign Investment Law Journal 391-413

• ‘Procedural Requirements in Dispute Settlement Provisions and Application of the MFN Clause in Recent Investment Disputes’ (2015) 1(1) Turkish Commercial Law Review Online 1-8