Turkey

Our Turkey desk advises corporates, financial institutions, UHNW and HNW individuals and family offices from Turkey in connection with their trading and investment activities in the UK as well as in cross-border transactions.

Our corporate clients include institutions and multinational conglomerates as well as owner-managed family businesses, and our team covers diverse sectors including consumer goods, construction and property, food, leisure, paper and packaging, retail and TMT. We advise on a wide range of corporate, commercial real estate, construction, financing, litigation/arbitration and employment and immigration matters.

Our practice also covers the private investment activities of the ultimate owners of our corporate clients across a range of asset classes in the UK.

We have excellent relationships with law firms across Turkey and with the Turkish desks of UK and international private banks.

Experience:

• Advising a major restructuring of Turkish conglomerate (ongoing)
• Acting for a Turkish conglomerate on a £20m plus investment in establishing a UK paper production operation, including setting up a joint venture with local partners and the acquisition of warehouse/manufacturing facilities (ongoing)
• Advising on Islamic financing for a £50m property investment portfolio for Turkish family office (ongoing)
• Advising on the £43m acquisition of a West End trophy asset for a Turkish family office and subsequent £28m group re-financing*
• Advising on the £42m acquisition of a SPV owned trophy West End retail property asset for a Turkish family office as well as subsequent financing*
• Advising on the £30m refinancing of commercial property portfolio for Turkish family office*
• Advising on £27m sale of trophy Knightsbridge retail asset for Turkish family office*
• Acting for an UHNW Turkish investor on the re-organisation of £17m financial services group and negotiating a joint venture agreement with minority interests*
• Advising in a property development joint venture for a Turkish owned group, involving the acquisition of UK development companies, and financing and profit share agreements with UK developers and financiers*
• Advising on the sale of software business providing real time sports data owned by a UHNW Turkish individual to a multinational betting company*
• Acting for household name Turkish white goods manufacturer on its acquisition of a UK HQ and distribution facilities*
• Advising on £14m acquisition by a family office of the UK HQ of a multinational group*
• Advising on £12.75m acquisition of London HQ for a Turkish family office*
• Advising on £11m acquisition of West End HQ for a Turkish construction company*
• Advising on the acquisition of City HQ for a Turkish government owned bank*
• Advising numerous Turkish UNHW and HNW investors on Tier 1 Investor Visas*
• Acquisition of prime London residential property for Turkish UNHW and HNW investors*

*Experience of the Turkish team prior to joining Fladgate