Our strong M&A team has consistently showed the capability to handle
numerous significant M&A transactions, reorganizations and spin-offs
simultaneously. ELIG attorneys were involved in more than
15 closed M&A transactions in the last twor years.
With its solution-oriented and business minded approach to legal
risks and structures, ELIG advises various types and sizes of
clients with different backgrounds and interests, such as
multinational companies, international and domestic strategic
investors, investment banks. In these deals, as the specifics of the
transaction requires ELIG’s M&A team works in close quarters with
the Banking & Finance, Competition and Litigation departments of the
firm.
Due Diligence
ELIG has a considerable track-record of complex due diligence work.
ELIG conducted due diligence reviews in physical and virtual data
rooms in numerous M&A transactions and submitted the outcome to the
client in detailed reports, always accompanied by an executive
summary. Our firm embodies the diverse legal expertise necessary for
assisting its clients in determining all material risks involved in
M&A transactions by providing a legal due diligence review in all
relevant fields of law. For a well-rounded due diligence process,
our team not only identifies the risks to be envisaged in
transactions but also
provides solution-oriented
advice and counseling designed to meet the self-imposed
above-the-market standards on a case by case basis.
Our M&A team is well connected to top-quality specialists in several
other expertise areas such as tax structuring, real estate
assessment and environmental due diligence, and has the capabilities
to establish the coordination among such experts and all in all,
reporting to the client also for the findings and suggestions of
such experts.
Contract Drafting/Review/Negotiation
ELIG has a well-established practice in drafting, reviewing and
negotiating share transfer, asset purchase and/or shareholders
agreements as well as ancillary contracts those may be required in
transactions e.g. employment contracts, option contracts and
pledge agreements and sui generis contracts tailor-made for each
specific transaction. Advising the sell-side our M&A team works
closely with the client in preparation of exhibits to the
transaction documents, especially as far as the representations and
warranties sections of contracts are concerned.
Joint Ventures
Our team has vast experience in the establishment, reorganization
and winding up of joint ventures operating in various markets. ELIG
provides complete legal assistance from inception of a joint venture
through structuring, contract negotiation and implementation. Our
experience of complex cross-border deals and multi-jurisdictional
projects provides our clients with an informed, international and
comprehensive view of factors relating to choice of law issues as
well as the structure itself.
In addition to the competition law, arbitration and intellectual
property aspects of these concentrations, our firm has a strong
capability to advise the transaction parties in properly handling
the corporate governance matters of joint ventures.
Private
Equity / Venture Capital / MBOs
Our firm also has a leading position in private equity, venture
capital transactions as well as management buy-outs,
since ELIG attorneys were involved in major transactions of this
type in Turkey. ELIG also advises private equity funds in
structuring their exit strategies including domestic and US
registration rights and public offerings.
Publications
In addition to its vast experience in the M&A practice in Turkey,
ELIG attorneys also contribute to this field of law with their
publications. Mr. Tunç Lokmanhekim, the head of the firm’s M&A
department, co-edited a book on M&A transactions entitled "M&A
Transactions under Turkish Law" authored jointly by members of the
firm and available in Turkish and English. This is the first book in
Turkish legal literature on how to structure M&A transactions under
Turkish law. Additionally, under the supervision of Mr. Lokmanhekim,
the firm’s M&A department prepared the Turkey chapters of Getting
the Deal Through/Mergers & Acquisitions (2003-2009) and the European
Mergers & Acquisitions Review (2007-2008).
