Legal mediator Gizem Alper is searching for cross-continental legal agreement

Gizem Alper’s career in international commercial law flows from a lifelong interest in legal principles and a career hopping between different cultures and parts of the world. Having studied and worked in law on three different continents, Alper’s practice focuses on bringing businesses into agreement across cultures. Alper does not litigate. Instead, her practice combines contracts and transactional consulting with mediation, often in disputes involving an American business and an international partner.  With Alper’s academic background focused on common law that helps businesses to go “beyond borders” to operate under basic common law rules of the road, she often finds herself acting as a mediator, where she serves as a neutral party rather than representing either side. “Looking into what the disagreement was… that’s the aspect that I like the most because usually if you're able to resolve the dispute like both parties are satisfied,” Alper said. “Whereas in litigation it's not