Halide Çetinkaya
halide.cetinkaya@ccaolaw.com
She is leading the M&A practice of the firm. She has experience in M&A, private equity, as well as banking finance and acquisition finance. Halide has a wide array of experience with 20 years in the Turkish legal market. Amongst others, she has particular focus on the financial institutions, insurance, healthcare and energy sectors. She has a law degree from Galatasaray University and received LLM degree from King’s College London. She is a member of the IBA Banking Law Committee since 2012. Ms. Cetinkaya speaks Turkish, English and French.
Onur Taktak
onur.taktak@ccaolaw.com
He has over 20 years of experience, formerly being a senior in-house lawyer at Yapı Kredi Bank, one of the Turkey’s leading banks. Onur is leading the banking finance practice of the firm and has a wide range of transactional and advisory experience covering banking and financial markets. He has done outstanding number of finance deals including project finance, acquisition finance, structured finance and restructurings. Onur has a law degree from Marmara University and speaks Turkish, English and French.
M. Tolga Semiz
tolga.semiz@ccaolaw.com
Tolga is responsible for the dispute resolution, employment and corporate advisory practices of CCAO with more than 20 years of experience. He has represented numerous local and foreign companies in their commercial, financial, employment, administrative, enforcement disputes before courts and arbitration panels. He also has been providing consultancy and retainer services to his clients in various sectors. He has a law degree from Marmara University.
Dr. Candemir Baltalı
candemir.baltali@ccaolaw.com
Dr. Baltalı holds a law degree from Bilgi University, Istanbul. Candemir has transactional and advisory experience in banking law, restructuring, regulatory and mergers and acquisitions. He has an LL.M. degree from University of Westminster in Corporate Finance Law and Ph.D. degree from Bilgi University, Istanbul on corporate law. His LL.M. thesis “Basel III: Dehybridization of Capital” is published by NYU Journal of Law & Business” in 2011 and he is the author of “The Privilege to be Represented in the Board of Directors in Joint Stock Companies”, an extensive book focusing on board of directors, which makes him an expert on company law with extensive knowledge and unique experience. He speaks Turkish and English.
Begüm Yörükoğlu
begum.yorukoglu@ccaolaw.com
She is a dual qualified attorney at law (New York and Istanbul Bars) with transactional and advisory experience in mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance and energy. Begüm has a law degree from Koç University and completed her LL.M. studies in Banking, Corporate and Finance Law at the Faculty of Law of Fordham University in New York. She speaks Turkish and English.
Eren Küçükkurt
eren.kucukkurt@ccaolaw.com
Eren is the head of IP practice, and advises a full range of legal services in copyrights, patents, trademarks, industrial design, domain names and database law. She has advisory and transactional experience in IP litigation, false advertisement, unfair competition and as well as employment law. Eren is a qualified trademark attorney and has a law degree from Galatasaray University. She speaks Turkish, English and French.
Özge Güller
ozge.guller@ccaolaw.com
Özge focuses on complex and high-value disputes with a focus on domestic and cross-border litigation particularly in commercial matters. She has experience in a broad range of industries, including aviation, tourism, construction, pharmaceuticals, FMCG, retail, software, telecommunications and automotive. She also has broad IP law experience and advises both Turkish and international companies on, among others, commercial, regulatory and contentious matters relating to IT contracts, outsourcing, data protection and privacy, and e-commerce, as well as on the general media and telecommunications sectors. She is graduated from Istanbul University and has an LL.M degree from Fribourg University, Switzerland in the field of International Contracts & Arbitration.
Onur Görkem Köksal
onur.koksal@ccaolaw.com
Onur Görkem Köksal is graduated from Galatasaray High School (Lycée de Galatasaray). He has a law degree from Galatasaray University, Istanbul and currently pursuing his LL.M on private law at Istanbul University with his thesis subject being “Obligations and Liabilities of Partners in Ordinary Partnerships”. He has transactional and advisory experience in banking law, commercial law, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions. He speaks Turkish, English and French.