Mr Noyan Turunç > TURUNÇ > Istanbul, Turkey > Lawyer Profile

A particular area of focus for the team at TURUNÇ is the employment aspects of high-profile M&A transactions, including cross-border deals which often involve major companies and funds. Founding partner and co-head Noyan Turunç continues to manage a broad workload for a number of blue-chip clients. Kerem Turunç is well versed in a variety of employment mandates, including bourgeoning data privacy concerns, employee benefits, and disputes. Co-head Gizem Günel regularly intervenes on major M&A transactions and is a key name for global HR systems.

TURUNÇ‘s experienced team is known for its proficiency in merger clearance analysis and strategic compliance advice for M&A transactions. The firm is particularly noted for its expertise in the software and venture capital sectors. Co-head Esin Çamlıbel oversees a diverse practice, covering merger control, venture capital investments, and commercial agreements. Noyan Turunç, also co-chair, brings extensive competition law experience, advising clients in the advertising, FMCG, software, and financial industries.

Successfully combining ‘legal expertise with business acumen’, the ‘very professional and diligent’ team at TURUNÇ provides ‘solutions-oriented’ advice to a borrower-focused client base across a range of financing activity, from working capital facilities and receivables financing through to acquisition and project finance mandates. ‘Always up to date on the legislation and market practices’, the firm’s strong regulatory knowledge informs its transactional work (which is frequently multi-jurisdictional in its scope) as well as being of great importance on ongoing compliance issues and alike. US-trained and with extensive experience in the UK, managing partner Kerem Turunç successfully combines this international grounding with deep local expertise and ‘has an impressive ability to grasp and address complex issues with clarity’, including on the capital markets. Noyan Turunç is ‘very commercially savvy’, including for clients seeking to access the debt and equity capital markets. Ilgın Eroğlu Alyanak, who excels at advising US clients on their Turkish transactions, and İltem Dokurlar, who ‘has immense knowledge and experience when it comes to finance and capital markets’, co-head the team alongside Noyan and Kerem.

TURUNÇ is known for ‘transparency, trustworthiness, a proactive approach, commercial awareness and international knowhow’. Working from Istanbul, Izmir and Ankara, the firm is a key partner for international law firms. The main contacts are Noyan Turunç, who assists Turkish and multinational companies in their commercial and criminal disputes; Yücel Ezberci, who is particularly noteworthy for product liability and non-compete disputes; litigation, arbitration, and white-collar crime specialist Kerem Turunç; and Gizem Günel.

Able to tap into vast institutional knowledge gleaned from many years’ activity in the market, TURUNÇ  assists corporates and funds with both domestic and cross-border M&A transactions. Founding partner Noyan Turunç has vast experience in both private practice and in his previous in-house positions, ensuring that he has an in-depth understanding of the commercial drivers of deals, including within the tech sector, a particularly fertile source of work for the team. Kerem Turunç co-heads the team alongside Noyan and also excels at advising on tech-driven M&A mandates, including for leading funds. Esin Çamlıbel combines a ‘strong academic background with real-world experience’ to good effect ensuring that she is able to provide ‘solid and actionable advice’ on complex corporate and commercial matters, including for large multinational clients under a retainer arrangement. Naz Esen excels at advising on corporate governance matters.