Cansin Akkaya Cosar
Paralegal
Biography
Cansin has been working in the Commercial Conveyancing Department at Greymore since February 2023. She advises clients on buying, selling, leasing, and refinancing commercial properties.
Cansin is a qualified lawyer in Turkey with over 10 years of legal experience. Before moving to the UK, she worked with clients in Turkey on property and business matters, building a solid understanding of both local and international legal issues.
After graduating from Istanbul Bilgi University, Cansin developed a practical and client-focused approach to law. She is known for being detail-oriented, reliable, and easy to work with, always aiming to make the legal process clear and smooth for clients. Her personal interests include travelling, reading, and cooking.
Area of Expertise
Cansin specialises in Commercial Conveyancing, offering legal guidance and transactional support on a wide range of property matters for corporate and private clients.
Commercial Conveyancing: experience advising clients on the acquisition, disposal, leasing, and refinancing of commercial properties. This includes preparing and negotiating sale contracts, lease agreements, licenses to assign or alter, rent deposit deeds, and overseeing title investigations and searches. Cansin supports both landlords and tenants in lease negotiations and regularly liaises with lenders, surveyors, and other professionals to ensure smooth and timely completion of transactions.
Property Finance: Advising clients—such as property owners, investors, and companies—on securing finance for property transactions, including re-mortgages, bridging loans, and other financing arrangements. This involves reviewing lender requirements, explaining terms to clients, coordinating with banks or brokers, and ensuring all legal conditions for funding are met.
Cross-border Transactions: Providing legal advice to international clients investing in UK commercial property, with a nuanced understanding of cross-jurisdictional legal and cultural dynamics.
Legal Compliance & Risk Management: Ensuring transactions comply with regulatory requirements such as anti-money laundering (AML) checks, source of funds verification, and client onboarding procedures.
Education
LL.B. – Istanbul Bilgi University