Alper Onar > Aksan Law Firm > Istanbul, Turkey > Lawyer Profile

Aksan Law Firm
Konaklar Mah. Zeki Müren Sk.
Aksan Binası No: 7
34330 4. Levent, Beşiktaş / İstanbul
Turkey

Work Department

Banking and Finance
Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and ICO Technologies
Consumer Law
Corporate Law
Data Protection Law
Mergers and Acquisitions
Payment Services and Electronic Money
Venture Capital Investments

Position

Partner

Career

Alper Onar graduated from Marmara University, Faculty of Law. He completed his LL.M degree on Banking and Finance Law at the Queen Mary University of London. Before joining Aksan, Alper worked at PwC for 5 years as the Director of Finance Law, 9 years as Senior Legal Counsel at the Capital Markets Board of Turkey (“CMB”) and 2 years as a lawyer in a well-established law firm. He is a member of Istanbul Bar Association since 2005.

Alper, while previously managing the Finance Law team, has provided legal consultancy services mainly on areas of capital market law including banking, contracts, commercial law and payment services to domestic and foreign financial institutions, public and private companies.

During his work at the CMB; he provided legal opinions to various departments of the CMB on capital market legislation and other regulations especially on public offerings and issuance of debt instruments, he carried out the application and follow-up procedures of cases on information abuse, market fraud and unauthorized capital market activities and he represented the CMB in various other administrative and judicial cases. Having actively involved in the preparation of the capital market legislation, Alper prepared various communiqués and auxiliary regulatory drafts while taking part in the relevant working groups.

As an attorney at law with over 16 years of experience, he provides legal consultancy services primarily on capital market and investment regulations to domestic and foreign companies, financial institutions such as banks, brokerage houses, portfolio management companies, payment and electronic money institutions, venture capital funds and investment trusts.

Languages

English

Memberships

Istanbul Bar Association

Education

Marmara University, Faculty of Law

Lawyer Rankings

Turkey > IT and telecoms

Under the leadership of Melih Aksan and Alper Onar, the team at Aksan Law Firm regularly advises on venture capital matters within the IT and telecoms space, and is sought after by clients to handle investments into tech start-ups. The group is equally strong in representing investment firms, banks, crypto asset exchange providers and e-money institutions in mandates.