The ‘very professional’ team at Hergüner Bilgen Üçer Attorney Partnership provides expertise across the full lifecycle of complex domestic and cross-border financing mandates for a high-profile client roster of international commercial banks, finance institutions and exim banks. The team exhibits specialist knowledge within the fintech industry and non-traditional financing matters. Senem Denktaş is a seasoned PPP project lawyer and is pivotal in guiding institutions through financial turbulence affecting PPPs and project financing. Adept in a key range of complex financing transactions is Piraye Kuranel Başol, renowned for her work with the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality involving the first green bond issuance in Turkey. Yeşim Api Şamlı steers her practice towards transactional and compliance work, with niche expertise in transport infrastructure financing.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- ‘Hergüner Bilgen Üçer Attorney Partnership is a very professional and good legal firm. We are happy with their services.’
- ‘Very diligent, on time and responsive.'
Key clients
- Blackstone Inc.
- TCC Group Holdings
- Ak Portföy Yönetim A.Ş.
- International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation
- EBRD
- Limak İnşaat Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş.
- IFC
- EIB
- US International Development Finance Corporation
- Türkiye İş Bankası A.Ş.
- Export Development Canada
- Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector
Work highlights
Represented Blackstone, one of the world’s largest asset management firms, in a transaction involving both equity injection and debt financing in Turkish mobile gaming start-up Dream Games, developer of the globally successful titles Royal Match and Royal Kingdom.
Representing the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation, an autonomous entity within the Islamic Development Bank Group focused on trade financing, in three separate transactions concerning the extension of murabaha financing to various Turkish banks.
Representing the group of commercial banks and international financial institutions acting as the project lenders in the Ankara Etlik project, which consists of the construction and operation of an integrated health campus (3,560 beds) in the Etlik region of Ankara under the build-lease-transfer (BLT) model.
Practice head
Senem Denktaş; Piraye Kuranel Başol; Yeşim Api Şamlı