Bihter Bozbay İnan
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Up and Coming : Corporate/M&A
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About
Provided by Bihter Bozbay İnan
Practice Areas
Corporate/M&A, Joint Ventures, Banking and Finance
Career
Bihter Bozbay İnan joined the Firm in 2013, after completing her legal internship in Garanti Bank, the second largest private bank in Turkey, and spending four years at an Istanbul-based law firm. Bihter became the Firm’s partner in 2019.
Professional Memberships
Istanbul Bar Association
Publications
Co-author of “International Comparative Legal Guide - Mergers & Acquisitions” Turkey Chapter, 16th edition (Global Legal Group, 2022); “The Acquisition and Leveraged Finance Review”, Turkey Chapter, 4th-6th editions (the Law Reviews, 2017-2019)
Personal
Bahçeşehir University School of Law (LL.B., 2009)
Languages Spoken
English, Turkish
Experience
Bihter Bozbay İnan has significant experience in M&A, joint ventures, corporate and finance transactions.
She advises leading private equity and investment firms, strategic investors as well as various leading international and local corporations on all aspects of their investments, from entry to exit and with any add-on investments, both in Turkey and abroad. Bihter’s transactional experience sees her advising across a variety of attractive sectors.
Clients
Turkven Private Equity, Mediterra Capital, MIC Capital, True Value Capital Partners, Oakley Capital, Bain Capital, Doğan Holding, BluTv, team.blue, NN Group, HDI Insurance, Tavuk Dünyası, BioIVT LLC, Elif Holding, Bunzl, Vinmar Group, Vansan, BMS Group, Koton, Beijing Sanyuan Foods Co., Ltd., R Vent Medikal, Glasshouse, Clonera Bilişim, Deutsche Investitions-und Entwicklungsgesellschaft, Barwa Bank, İşBank, NEF, Merrill Lynch, Eurobank Tekfen (Burgan Bank), Odea Bank, Garanti Bank, Vakıfbank, Wittur, Landesbank Baden-Württemberg and Samsung C&T Corporation.
Work Highlights
In recent years, Bihter advised BluTV, Turkey’s first SVOD platform, and its shareholders in connection with the sale of a minority stake to Warner Bros. Discovery, a global media giant based in the USA, as well as the subsequent sale of the remaining stake to Warner Bros. Discovery; team.blue on several acquisitions of Turkey’s outstanding hosting and domain name registration service providers; Vinmar International, a global leading marketing and distribution company based in Texas, USA, in connection with the acquisition of several leading Turkish companies operating in chemical industry; MIC Capital Management 39 RSC Ltd, a fund owned by Abu Dhabi state investor, Mubadala, in connection with its investment in Getir B.V. by way of share subscription; Turkven, one of Turkey’s leading private equity funds, on its acquisition of a minority stake in Alterna Gıda, a fast-growing healthy snack manufacturer; and BMS Group on its entry into the Turkish markets, including the acquisition of BMS Insurance Brokerage. More recently, she advised HDI Sigorta, one of Turkey's leading insurance companies and a Talanx AG subsidiary, on its acquisition of a majority stake in Fiba Emeklilik ve Hayat, a prominent life insurance and pension company in Turkey as well as incorporation of a joint venture with Fibabanka, to be engaged in non-life insurance business; Mediterra Capital on the sale of its shares in Paycore, a prominent payment services provider, to Param, the largest full-stack payment service provider of Turkey; R Vent Medikal, a sector-leading healthcare medical device company based in Izmir, and its shareholders on the sale of R Vent Medikal to Plastiflex Group NV, a leading company in the production of tubing systems and components for medical and industrial applications; GlassHouse, a leading IT infrastructure services provider in Turkey, and its shareholders (including Mediterra Capital) on the sale of GlassHouse to e& enterprise, a subsidiary of the global technology and investment group e&; and Mediterra Capital, one of Turkey’s prominent private equity firms, on Terra Pizza’s acquisition of a minority stake in Dürümle, a fast-food chain.
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