TURUNÇ has advised Sorwe, a Turkey and United Kingdom-based digital employee experience platform helping teams stay engaged, on its latest investment round. Regulated Turkish venture capital fund TechOne led the round, which was joined by the pan-European accelerator program Startup Wise Guys and an individual investor. The TURUNÇ team included...

TURUNÇ has advised Wellbees on its recently closed angel funding round. Wellbees is a Turkey-based B2B SaaS corporate well-being platform with an international customer base. It provides enterprises with various web and app-based mental health and wellbeing tools to offer to their employees under a single umbrella. The TURUNÇ team...

TURUNÇ authored the Turkey chapter of Lexology Getting the Deal Through’s Debt Capital Markets (2021) title. The contributing lawyers were Kerem Turunç and Esin Çamlıbel. The publication is a comparative guide of the legislation relating to debt capital markets in 12 jurisdictions. In addition to Turkey, the jurisdictions covered by the 2021...

TURUNÇ is pleased to welcome İltem Dokurlar as a partner and head of the firm’s capital markets practice. Before joining TURUNÇ, Mr. Dokurlar was chief legal counsel at Borsa Istanbul, Turkey’s national stock exchange, and Yıldırım Holding, a Turkish multinational conglomerate. Mr. Dokurlar has extensive experience in securities regulation, capital...

TURUNÇ has advised Boğaziçi Ventures on its investment in Barakatech, a super app platform and API marketplace. Boğaziçi Ventures is a leading Turkish Capital Markets Board-regulated venture capital fund focused primarily on fintech, health tech, retail tech and gaming. The TURUNÇ team included Kerem Turunç, Yasemin Kerestecioğlu and Beste Yıldızili...

TURUNÇ has advised Vinci Venture Capital on its investment in ShipsGo, a start-up which uses big data to enable accurate container tracking and route searching for cargo owners and forwarders. Vinci Venture Capital is the venture capital fund affiliate of İnci Holding, a large Turkish conglomerate. The TURUNÇ team included...

Dr. Esin Çamlıbel has been named partner at TURUNÇ. Dr. Çamlıbel was previously counsel. She leads the firm’s competition law, compliance and regulatory practices. Dr. Çamlıbel is an expert in commercial law, competition law, European Union law, intellectual property law, data privacy, and international trade and WTO laws. Dr. Çamlıbel...

This holiday season, in honor of our clients and friends around the world, we’re donating to organizations that tackle issues of hunger, access to education, and animal rights. Bu sene dünyanın dört bir yanına yayılmış müvekkilerimiz yeni yılını açlıkla mücadele, eğitime erişim ve hayvan hakları konularına çalışan kurumlara katkıda bulunarak...

TURUNÇ is pleased to be ranked as a leading fintech law firm in Turkey in the FinTech 2021 guide published by Chambers & Partners. Created several years ago as a separate guide from the traditional Chambers Global and Chambers Europe guides, in each of which TURUNÇ is also ranked, the...