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Dr Zahide Altunbas Sancak

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Work Department

Corporate Transactions - Advisor

Position

Dr. Zahide Altunbas Sancak, a member of Istanbul and New York bar associations, is highly specialized in corporate mergers & acquisitions transactions and in pre-and-post dispute stages of shareholders’ disputes. She has considerable experience in share and asset transfers, joint ventures, corporate restructuring, corporate mergers and demergers, creating mechanisms for the prevention of shareholders’ dispute, venture capital investments, angel investments, and acquisition financing, generally advising and representing family companies. She has acted as the advisor to sell-side and buy-side in every stage of more than 70 local and cross-border deals, involving private and publicly held companies, in a wide range of industries such as technology, energy, telecommunications, infrastructure, automotive and food. Moreover, she provides day-to-day general corporate law advice to multinational clients in relation to their Turkish subsidiaries and advises them on a broad scope of legal matters including employment, agency and distributorship, capital markets, corporate governance, anti-corruption, and intellectual property.

Languages

English, Turkish

Memberships

Zahide is a founding member of Harvard Law School Alumni Association of Turkey and is currently serving as a board member. She is also a member of Harvard Alumni Association, ILI İstanbul International Law Institute and Corporate Governance Association of Turkey (TKYD).

Education

Following her LL.B. education at İstanbul Bilgi University on a full scholarship, Altunbas Sancak earned her Master of Laws [LL.M.] degree from Harvard Law School. She also pursued her PhD at İstanbul Bilgi University and wrote her dissertation on “Seller’s Liability for Breach of Representations and Warranties in Share Deals”. She also gives lectures on “Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions” in Master of Laws programme at Kadir Has University.