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Iustinian Captariu

Iustinian Captariu

Iustinian Captariu is the Managing Partner of the Bucharest office, the head of the Romanian Energy & Natural Resources and Competition & State Aid service lines. He also serves as head of the firm-wide Energy & Natural Resources sector and service line and further coordinates the office's Dispute Resolution service line. He focuses on energy & natural resources, environment and regulatory (including pharma regulatory), competition & state aid, infrastructure & projects, M&A, and joint ventures. He has an experience of over 14 years in advising clients on all aspects of energy law, including energy M&A, joint-ventures, reorganisations, licensing and regulatory matters, long term contracts, trading related issues and also public procurement procedures involving energy companies. He has significant experience acting for large companies in relation to the whole spectrum of competition law matters including cartels, dawn raids, abuse of dominant position, merger notifications, State aid etc.
Victor Constantinescu

Victor Constantinescu

Victor Constantinescu is a Partner in our Bucharest office and the Co-Head of the firm-wide real estate sector, with his remit extending across the entire C/SEE region. Victor focuses on all aspects of real estate transactions in the region for a range of international investment funds and local developers with over 15 years’ experience locally and regionally. His particular emphasis is on transactional work: acquisitions and sales of commercial real estate, as well as joint ventures, across all asset classes: retail, office, logistics, and agricultural. He has built a reputation for efficiency and commercial pragmatism in organizing and closing transactions and for building long-term relationships – skills that have earned him recognition as a top real estate practitioner for years in a row by major legal guides. Since joining the firm in 2017, Victor has already led transactions whose combined value well exceeds EUR 500 million.
Zsuzsa Csiki

Zsuzsa Csiki

Zsuzsa Csiki is a Partner in the Bucharest office and the co-head of the local M&A/Corporate service line – with her experience also extending to technology and financial regulatory/capital markets transactions. Zsuzsa ensures a strong mix of regulatory and transactional support, being backed up by a strong team of professional lawyers. Zsuzsa has over 18 years of experience in advising on the entire spectrum of private and public M&As: cross-border and domestic share deals and asset deals, business transfers, private equity transactions, public takeovers, mergers/demergers, restructurings and joint ventures. Zsuzsa has a strong reputation representing local entrepreneurs and private businesses in relation to investments by global corporates and investors, providing strategic advice on the deal process. Corporate clients and local entrepreneurs in the agribusiness, IT, automotive, retail, banking and regulated sectors, find her reliable and resourceful when it comes to fixing complex matters, creating efficient transaction structures and tackling robust regulatory requirements. Zsuzsa’s expertise also extends to financial regulatory and capital markets transactions, guiding financial institutions through complex, international regulatory environments. In advising on numerous high-value and high-profile deals in the financial services and banking sectors, she has also orchestrated numerous change of control regulatory filings and led teams and clients through robust regulatory requirements.
Diana Dimova

Diana Dimova

Managing Partner and co-head of M&A, Corporate & Private Equity in Sofia. Diana advises international companies on their market entry and corporate matters, including implementation of changes in capital and corporate structures. She has led the local team on some of largest M&A deals in the Bulgarian financial services sector. She also has considerable experience in infrastructure projects, having advised the project sponsors of a large gas infrastructure project and, more recently, the investors in the Sofia airport concession.
Sinan Diniz

Sinan Diniz

Sinan Diniz is a Partner in the Istanbul office and Head of the local Competition & State Aid service line. He has more than 10 years of competition law experience and assists clients with all aspects of Turkish competition law including merger control, antitrust investigations, exemption filings, and daily compliance queries. His expertise extends to administrative and private litigation, designing competition law compliance programs, and delivering bespoke training sessions. Sinan also provides support for international merger control requirements. Throughout his career, Sinan has successfully advised clients on close to 100 merger control filings before the Turkish Competition Authority across diverse sectors. He has handled multiple Phase II investigations, full-fledged antitrust investigations, and preliminary reviews. Sinan represented clients in antitrust investigations and other matters across a diverse range of industries such as digital platforms, automotive, telecommunications, electronics, mobile games, banking, fintech, FMCG, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, chemicals, insurance, infrastructure, steel, building materials, refractories, cosmetics and parcel delivery services. Sinan’s impressive track record includes drafting defence submissions, presenting cases before the Turkish Competition Board, assisting clients during dawn raids, and providing strategic advice on responding to information requests. He has been recognised by the main international legal directories as one of the leading lawyers in Turkey in Competition and State Aid.
Mert Elçin

Mert Elçin

Dr. Mert Elçin is a partner at the Firm and advises local and international clients on complex and cross-border M&A transactions, banking and finance projects, and life sciences matters. With more than 15 years of experience, he counsels companies across heavily regulated industries, including life sciences, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, financial services, automotive, retail, technology, and manufacturing. In the corporate and financial services sphere, Mert advises on the full spectrum of M&A, banking and finance, insolvency, and restructuring transactions. He represents banks, brokers, insurers, asset managers, venture capital firms, private equity investors, and multinational corporates. His work includes cross-border investments, financing deals, joint ventures, regulatory compliance projects, and high-stakes transactional mandates. Mert is particularly recognised for his deep understanding of Turkish regulatory frameworks, especially those governing medicinal products, and financial institutions. His practice covers safety risk management, licensing, and authorisations. He also plays a key role in cross-border transactions, providing strategic guidance to clients operating in or entering the Turkish market. His combination of legal insight, industry knowledge, and leadership makes him a trusted advisor for clients. He holds an LL.M. (Summa Cum Laude) in International and Comparative Law from Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium, and a PhD in Comparative Contract Law and International Arbitration from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
Eren Ertem

Eren Ertem

Eren Ertem has more than 22 years of experience advising international clients at top-tier law firms on complex corporate and transactional matters. Eren focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity transactions, corporate restructurings, and cross-border investments. She also advises on a wide range of commercial matters, including supply and distribution agreements, franchising, and employment law. Her experience spans multiple sectors and includes representing clients in high-profile and cross-border transactions. In addition to her transactional practice, Eren has extensive experience in capital markets law, IPOs, international arbitration, and regulatory compliance, including anti-bribery, FCPA, and World Bank investigations. She is also well-versed in advising publicly listed companies and navigating stock exchange regulations.
Svilen Issaev

Svilen Issaev

Partner, head of Banking, Finance and Capital Markets in Sofia and and co-head of the firm-wide Restructuring & Insolvency service line. He has advised some of the largest international and domestic banking and finance institutions on various transactional, regulatory and compliance matters applicable to their business in Bulgaria. Svilen’s expertise includes a wide spectrum of finance and investment issues such as: banks and financial institutions licensing, cross border financings, investment structuring, debt restructuring, security insolvency proceedings, capital market transactions and regulations. He also specialises in life sciences and healthcare, including marketing authorisation, production, distribution, pricing and reimbursement, pharmacovigilance, advertising and clinical trials.
Antonia Mavrova

Antonia Mavrova

Partner, firm-wide Head of the Automotive and Industrials sector,  head of Real Estate, Constriction and Planning, and co-head of Dispute Resolution in Sofia . Her real estate expertise includes investment, financing and acquisition, project development and property management. Antonia has advised some of the largest strategic investors in Bulgaria on compliance with the stringent local environmental regulations. She has strong expertise in real estate litigation, ensuring the appropriate dispute resolution mechanism and the best possible outcome. Antonia has also represented automobile manufacturers and suppliers on their market entries by structuring their investments and in various legal aspects.
Atanas Mihaylov

Atanas Mihaylov

Counsel and head of Tax and Restructuring & Insolvency in Sofia. Atanas Mihaylov also has vast experience in Real Estate & Construction and M&A & Corporate projects. Atanas has advised infrastructure clients and international real estate developers on all aspects of their projects, including land acquisition, zoning, planning, engineering, procurement and construction, insurance, permitting, operational agreements, project finance and regulatory matters. His transactional experience includes structuring real estate acquisitions and disposals and advising on the real estate, regulatory and tax aspects of share-purchase agreements, corporate reorganisations and joint ventures. He has also successfully advised clients on commercial litigation and arbitration matters.
Mladen Minev

Mladen Minev

Partner, head of Energy and Natural Resources and co-head of Dispute Resolution in Sofia. He has rich experience advising local and international clients, including in the energy sector, on various legal aspects related to the development of complex projects, spatial planning development and construction, real estate investments, and corporate and cross-border commercial mattes. He specialises in national and European energy regulatory issues, energy policy and compliance matters. He also represents companies in litigation proceedings (commercial, civil and administrative) and in national and international arbitration.
Magdalena Răducanu

Magdalena Răducanu

Magdalena Raducanu is a Partner in the Bucharest office. She leads the local Banking & Finance service line and also serves as the co-head of the firm-wide Banking and Finance service line. She has more than 22-year experience in advising reputable banks and financial institutions or well-known borrowers on banking and finance matters. She has expertise in a broad range of matters after having dedicated her focus exclusively to banking and finance and financial regulatory matters. Lately, she has dedicated significant efforts in assisting banks on various ESG-related mandates. Since joining our office’s local banking practice, Magdalena has advised or coordinated banking mandates in the amount of EUR 4 billion.
Simru Tayfun

Simru Tayfun

Simru Tayfun is a pivotal Senior Associate, centrally positioned across the firm’s Competition & State Aid, Risk & Investigations, and Compliance & Risk Management practices. While her core expertise is in all facets of Turkish competition law, her comprehensive experience in designing and implementing robust risk mitigation and compliance programs as well as regulatory counsel makes her a highly valued advisor across the wider spectrum of the firm’s services. She has an exceptional track record of handling high-stakes legal and regulatory matters for a diverse roster of clients, including numerous multinational companies operating in sectors such as FMCG, Tobacco, Oil & Gas, Automotive & Industrials, Tech, and the highly regulated Healthcare and Life Sciences industries. Her counsel spans all key areas of Turkish competition law, including merger control filings, antitrust investigations, and sophisticated day-to-day competition counsel. Simru has played a pivotal role in defending clients in high-profile antitrust investigations initiated by the Turkish Competition Authority. She has managed complex cartel and abuse of dominant position cases, helping clients navigate all stages, from responding to dawn raids and challenging requests for information to successfully litigating before administrative courts. Her certification in digital markets competition law and advanced competition law practice, combined with her involvement in academic seminars, underscores her commitment to staying ahead of emerging regulatory trends, particularly in digital ecosystems. Furthermore, Simru is a key leader in the firm’s compliance offering. She has spearheaded numerous competition law compliance projects, designed bespoke, multi-jurisdictional risk assessments, and delivered tailored training programs to legal and business teams. She also provides crucial support to clients, particularly within the Healthcare & Life Sciences sector, ensuring compliance with sector-specific regulatory requirements. Simru is also highly proficient in managing broader compliance risks. She has been crucial in: • Designing internal whistle-blower tools and ethics lines. • Handling potential fraud, internal investigation, and anti-money laundering risks. • Providing critical cross-jurisdictional sanctions advisory, assisting clients in navigating complex and evolving export control and anti-dumping regulations as well as sanctions regimes stemming from geopolitical developments. • Regularly advising clients on how to structure their operations to achieve maximum compliance with Turkish regulatory frameworks in a commercially viable manner. Simru’s combination of exceptional technical command, deep sectoral versatility, and a proactive, client-focused delivery positions her as one of the most capable and strategically-minded Senior Associates in the Turkish legal market.
Nina Tsifudina

Nina Tsifudina

Partner, co-head of M&A, Corporate & Private Equity and firm-wide co-head of Employment & Labour Law. She advises both local and international clients on all aspects of employment law, delivering strategic guidance on all workplace issues, as well as on a wide range of commercial matters and corporate transactions such as M&A, reorganisations and market entry strategies. She also represents private equity and venture capital firms and other corporates on acquisitions, disposals and restructurings, as well as portfolio companies on all corporate matters. Nina is among the key advisers on the local corporate and employment aspects of large international transactions, including those of global IT companies with operations in Bulgaria.
Yağmur İpek Özen

Yağmur İpek Özen

Yağmur Özen is a Managing Associate focusing on corporate and M&A matters. She specialises in acquisitions, disposals, reorganisations, joint ventures and management buyouts and provides practical and commercial advice to companies operating in various industries including defence, energy, mining or information technologies. Yağmur has also gained considerable experience providing advice to local and international clients on data protection legislation and GDPR, data management and privacy strategies. Yağmur is dual-qualified as a member of both the Istanbul Bar Association and the Bar Council of England and Wales, and navigates both Turkish and English legal frameworks seamlessly. She has been regularly praised by international directories for her expertise in M&A and corporate law.
Edmund Emre Özer

Edmund Emre Özer

Edmund Emre Özer is a Partner in Istanbul office and leading Corporate and M&A work in Turkey. He has a broad corporate and corporate finance practice with a particular focus on public and private acquisitions, financing, joint ventures and capital markets transactions. Emre has represented clients in a variety of different sectors, both regulated and unregulated, including on many of the highest profile recent transactions in the Turkish market, and has close to 25 years of experience. Emre worked for almost a decade in the corporate/commercial department of the “Magic Circle” firm Slaughter and May in London. After that, he worked as a senior foreign lawyer at White & Case Istanbul office before establishing its own firm. Over the course of his career, Emre has been recognised by the main international legal directories and other benchmark publications as one of the leading lawyers in Turkey.
Sıla Özge Şaylı

Sıla Özge Şaylı

Sıla focuses on corporate and M&A and real estate. She gained considerable experience providing advice to local and international clients in acquisitions, mergers and joint ventures. Sıla has represented clients in a variety of different sectors mostly focused on sectors such as real estate, infrastructure, retail and production. She has substantial real estate experience, providing advice to clients regarding high value residential and industrial properties such as production facilities, energy power plants, oil storage facilities and airports. She represents high-profile clients, delivers pragmatic, business-oriented solutions that balance legal compliance with commercial objectives. Sıla is recognised for her precise legal analysis, clear communication style, and ability to coordinate seamlessly with cross-border legal teams. She plays a key role in helping clients navigate challenges in complex, time-sensitive transactions. Sıla’s expertise has been acknowledged by leading international directories.