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Our practice offers advice to banks, financial institutions, investors and corporations in connection with:
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The firm also assists a variety of entities in primary and secondary market transactions – i.e. initial public offerings and secondary offerings; derivatives transactions (i.e. interest rates, currencies, equities, debt or commodities); and regulatory, corporate governance and compliance matters.
Experience in this practice area includes:
- Advising lenders in a US$965 million secured financing for the restructuring of the debts of a major petroleum group to Turkish banks and the Turkish Privatisation Administration
- Advising the sponsor in the €130 million financing of Turkey’s largest wind farm project (135MW Osmaniye Project)
- Advising the sponsor in the US$510 million privatisation and financing of 9 power plants owned by the state entity Ankara Doğal Elektrik Üretim A.S.
- Advising a South African banking group in relation to the €90 million financing of the development, operation and maintenance of Skopje, Ohrid and Shtip Airports in the Republic of Macedonia
- Advising a non-domestic media group in relation to refinancing of an existing facility and grant of additional funding for capital expenditure purposes
- Advising an international organisation in a loan transaction to finance the working capital requirements of a Turkish corporate for the import, processing and distribution of agricultural commodities
- Advising an international financial institution on Turkish law aspects of the security package for various domestic and non-domestic financing arrangements
- Advising a Japanese bank in the acquisition of loan participations and transfer of security
- Advising a non-domestic financial institution regarding the transfer of security in respect of a loan transaction for a power deal
- Advising a Chinese financial institution in its Turkish security arrangements in respect of a term loan to be provided to a Turkish Borrower for working capital purposes
- Advising a corporation located in the United Arab Emirates on a loan transaction to invest in a Turkish company and its possible acquisition of shares in the Turkish company
- Advising non-domestic financiers and lessors in secured and unsecured aircraft financing and leasing transactions
- Advising a Turkish petroleum company in various hedging transactions
- Advising a German deposit bank on FOREX matters in Turkey
- Advising a non-domestic financial institution in the expansion of its agency and trust product range to Turkey
For more information, please see the following published articles:
- Yeşim Bezen, Alaz Eker Ündar and Zekican Samli, “Banking Regulation – Turkey Chapter”, Getting the Deal Through – Banking Regulation, 2011
- Yeşim Bezen and Banu Aslan, “Financial Leasing in renewable energy projects in Turkey: suitable alternative for financiers?”, Law and Financial Markets Review, January 2011, pp. 33-36
- Yeşim Bezen and Banu Aslan, “Project finance in Turkey’s energy sector: a Turkish delight for financiers”, Law and Financial Markets Review, Practitioners Perspective, May 2010, pp. 272-275
- Yeşim Bezen and Belgin Özdilmen, “Banking Regulation – Turkey Chapter”, Getting the Deal Through – Banking Regulation, 2010
- Utku Kerem Kırklar, “The Turkish aircraft market: ready to turn the autopilot off?”, Law and Financial Markets Review, Practitioners Perspective, September 2009, pp. 434-7
- Yeşim Bezen and Banu Aslan, “Banking Regulation – Turkey Chapter”, Getting the Deal Through – Banking Regulation, 2009
- Yeşim Bezen, “The Turkish Financial Leasing Law – is it industry specific?”, Law and Financial Markets Review, Practitioner Perspectives, May 2008, pp.260-1
- Serdar Bezen (co-author), “Turkey Chapter – Banking Regulation”, Getting the Deal Through 2008