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Kolcuoğlu Demirkan Koçaklı (KDK) is a well-known and highly praised law firm in the Turkish market for its comprehensive and strong M&A and corporate practice. Besides the Firm’s strong influence in the Turkish market, the KDK individuals are highly acknowledged with their strong backgrounds, professionalism and in-depth knowledge of various areas of law.

The Transaction team is known for its large-scale projects in highly regulated sectors including insurance, pharma, fintech, financial services, energy and for advising leading private equity funds and strategic investors in connection with cross-border/local transactional assignments ranging from private/public M&As to joint ventures. KDK has taken part in most of the “landmark” and complex deals in the market and played a remarkable role in the country’s M&A market in recent years.

The Corporate & Commercial team is very active in a broad range of sub-practice areas, including contract negotiations, corporate governance and compliance, corporate structuring, real estate, tenders, data privacy rules, anti-bribery and corruption matters and market regulations. This allows KDK to practice in a broad range of different sectors with great knowledge and experience. By knowing the challenges in different sectors, the team is able to provide tailor-made legal services and successfully assists the clients throughout every stage of their business cycle.

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Corporate/M&A: The Elite - Turkey

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What the Team is Known For

Kolcuoğlu Demirkan Koçaklı is a widely admired Turkish law firm with a significant portfolio of corporate clients. The team boasts an enviable presence among Turkish private equity funds and strategic investors, advising on high-end mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. The lawyers regularly handle transactions in the insurance, energy and financial services sectors.

Work Highlights

  • Kolcuoğlu Demirkan Koçaklı advised Saya Group and individual shareholders on the sale of Volt Motor.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Umut Kolcuoğlu
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Umut Kolcuoğlu
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Umut Kolcuoğlu is a well-respected corporate and M&A lawyer. He acts for domestic and international corporate clients on both the buy and sell sides.

Umut Kolcuoğlu is a great communicator.

He is our go-to-lawyer for the majority of our deals, especially thanks to his strong commercial sense.

His sharp legal mind combines a deep legal expertise with a pragmatic, solutions-driven mindset. He is very enthusiastic and has the ability to build strong, lasting relationships based on trust.

In my opinion, Umut is one of the most experienced M&A lawyers in Turkey. He is very convincing when negotiating very complex structures.

He demonstrates a strong understanding of our business needs and consistently offers commercially sound guidance tailored to the context.

Bihter Bozbay İnan
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Bihter Bozbay İnan
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Bihter Bozbay İnan is well placed to advise domestic and international clients on a range matters including corporate acquisitions, complex due diligence and corporate restructurings.

Bihter Bozbay İnan really understands our needs and reflects them in the documentation.

She is an excellent problem solver.

Gökçe İldiri Coşgüner
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Gökçe İldiri Coşgüner
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Gökçe İldiri Coşgüner mainly assists private equity clients on deal structuring and complex due diligence mandates.

Gökçe İldiri Coşgüner is highly approachable, open to discussions that go above and beyond and takes full ownership of her work.

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Turkey

Corporate/M&A: The Elite

Umut Kolcuoğlu
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Umut Kolcuoğlu
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Band 1
Bihter Bozbay İnan
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Bihter Bozbay İnan
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Band 5
Gökçe İldiri Coşgüner
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Gökçe İldiri Coşgüner
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Up and Coming

Members

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Aslıhan Balcı

Begüm İnceçam Kolcuoğlu

Ceyda Betül Gülmezoğlu

Duygu Yurtal

Ece Çağıran

Ezgi Hamamcı

Hasan H. Yaşar

Maral Minasyan

Melis Öget Koç

Nejan Duman

Neyzar Ünübol

Serhan Koçaklı

Serhan Koçaklı

Head of Department

Umut Kolcuoğlu

Umut Kolcuoğlu

Head of Department

Yağmur Turan

Zeynep Tezan

İpek Yüksel

İrem Cansu Demircioğlu Mercan

Industries

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Audit Services

Automotive

Aviation

Chemicals

Construction

E-commerce

Education

Electronic

Energy

Engineering

Entertainment

Facility Management

Financial services

Fintech

Food

Hospitality

Information Technologies

Infrastructure

Insurance

Logistic

Manufacturing

Media

Pharmaceutical

Real estate

Retail

Technology

Telecommunications

Textile

Tobacco

Transportation