Erkut Sogut

Born in Hanover, Germany, to Turkish migrant parents, Erkut graduated from high school in Hanover in 2000. He started studying law at the University of Osnabrück in 2001. After graduating, he worked in the German-Indian Chamber of Commerce in New Delhi with a focus on arbitration; he also worked in the Istanbul office of the German law firm Luther.^[3]

Following his two-year legal training at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court, he passed his second state judicial exam and gained the right to practice as a lawyer.^{[citation needed]}

Sogut was the agent for Mesut Ozil, and negotiated Ozil's transfer from Real Madrid to Arsenal in 2013, which at the time was for a club record transfer fee.^[4][5]