Turkish Corporate Law 

At Akkas & Associates Turkish Law Firm, we have the experience and knowledge necessary to assist our clients with virtually any type of corporate transaction. Our experience spans the spectrum from emerging business agreements to IPOs and public company representation. Our approach is to treat the needs of each client as unique and to help our clients resolve issues in the most practical and efficient manner possible. We have great trust and respect for each member of our practice group, and we carry that trust and respect into each client relationship.

Our client-centric approach is guided by the perspective we have gained by the experience of some members of our practice group as general counsel or in-house lawyers for domestic and international corporations. Our client-side experience, combined with our extensive experience as outside counsel to a wide variety of clients, has provided us with the tools necessary to deliver our clients exceptional counsel.

In the course of our practice, we routinely advise clients with:

• Turkish company formation and governance
• Corporate finance, including equity and preferred equity investments
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Private equity and portfolio investments
• Cross-border and international transactions, including international joint ventures

Our experience enables us to assist diverse types of clients with wide-ranging needs in a variety of industries and stages of development. We represent corporations, partnerships and trusts. We represent clients that are privately held as well as those whose securities are traded on all major stock exchanges. And our clients are engaged in a broad array of industries.Our clients can have confidence that, no matter the issue, we have the knowledge and experience to help them address it.

Spotlight Facts
Akkas & Associates's Corporate & Securities group includes attorneys:

• Who have practiced in all over Turkey;
• Who have served as general counsel or in-house lawyers for both domestic and international corporations;
• Who have extensive experience in transactions from large complex public offerings to starting up new businesses;
• Who represent clients from large public companies to small private companies to investment funds and other nontraditional businesses; and
• Who address the needs of our clients on an individual basis, tailoring deal teams to customize representation around client preferences and priorities

Our focus on our clients has led to honors such as being listed on Law Firms Best at Client Service.

Venture Capital

We represent early stage companies in all aspects of their organization, financing and operations. We also represent venture capitalists and others who invest is those companies.

In connection with venture capital related transactions, our lawyers work closely with lawyers practicing in other areas, including patent, trademark and intellectual property practitioners, tax lawyers and attorneys skilled in leading transactions. Our attorneys provide early stage companies not only with legal advice, but also with insights based upon the combined experience of our partners and associates over many years in dealing with the issues faced by new and rapidly growing businesses.

Mergers and Acquisitions Attorneys

We have extensive experience representing clients involved in all types of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and other strategic alliances, with exceptional expertise in cross-border transactions. We have represented clients involved in merger and acquisition transactions from large to small and from simple to extremely complex. Our typical activities in these transactions include:

• Drafting and negotiating asset purchase, stock purchase and merger agreements
• Preparing filings under applicable securities laws
• Counseling boards of directors, special committees and in-house counsel in acquisition related matters
• Representing investment banking firms in connection with their fairness opinions with respect to these transactions
• Handling exchange offers, tender offers, proxy contests and going private transactions

Developing and deploying measures to deter or defend against hostile takeover attempts, including shareholder rights plans

Handling conversions, recapitalizations, reorganizations (both in and out of bankruptcy), spin-offs and other divestiture transactions

Assisting in communications with analysts and the media

Our acute focus on each client's unique needs leads us to approach each transaction with an interdisciplinary team of attorneys tailored to the specific transaction, handling the various corporate, securities, intellectual property, litigation, employee benefits, tax, environmental, antitrust, and other issues inherent in mergers and acquisitions.

We have unsurpassed experience counseling business enterprises in a wide range of negotiated and contested transactions including: mergers, asset purchases, spin-offs, exchange offers, tender offers, proxy contests, going-private transactions, and leveraged buy-outs. We represent publicly and privately held companies, as well as private equity investors, in complex matters such as joint ventures, strategic alliances and cross-border transactions. And we also have extensive experience representing acquirers, private equity funds and targets in all manner of transactions, including mergers, stock purchases, recapitalizations and tender and exchange offers.

Corporate & Securities

Akkas & Associates Turkish Law Firm corporate attorneys regularly handle public and private securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, securities law compliance, venture capital, entity formation and governance, investment management, international transactions, and a wide variety of other matters. We have the capacity to handle all aspects of complicated transactions from the initial stages through closing documentation, and the ability to act as special or local counsel for specific issues or matters. We also provide day-to-day advice on general corporate matters. Our corporate lawyers have the resources afforded by a multi-city firm with in-depth experience in most practice areas.

We represent corporations, partnerships, and trusts that are privately held and those whose securities are traded on the Istanbul Stock Exchange market. Our clients are engaged in a broad array of industries, including telecommunications, distribution, energy, insurance, finance, health care, manufacturing, real estate, and retailing. We also represent national and international investment banking firms, financial institutions, and venture capital firms.