TURUNÇ has advised venture capital fund Vela Partners on its investment in Grabango. With its origins in Turkey, and partners also operating in the United States and the UK, Vela Partners invests in startups across a variety of industries. Grabango is a provider of seamless, retrofitted checkout technologies for retailers. The TURUNÇ team was led...

We are pleased to announce that three TURUNÇ lawyers were winners of the International Law Office and Lexology’s Client Choice Awards 2019. Noyan Turunç was the sole recipient of the Litigation award, Esin Çamlıbel the sole recipient of the Competition & Antitrust award and Kerem Turunç the sole recipient of the M&A award for Turkey....

TURUNÇ has represented The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Korea Eximbank) on its equity investment into Howon Otomotiv. Korea Eximbank is the official export credit agency of South Korea. In addition to providing export credit and guarantees to support Korean companies’ operations overseas, it also makes direct equity investments. Howon Otomotiv is the Turkish subsidiary of...

TURUNÇ has advised Egesil Kimya, a specialty chemicals manufacturer, on a EUR 15 million loan from the EBRD. The loan will be used to increase Egesil’s production of precipitated silica, which functions, among other things, as a reinforcing filler for tires. Egesil is a joint venture between Ege Kimya, a leading Turkish chemicals producer, and...

TURUNÇ has advised venture capital fund Vela Partners on its investment in Firefly. With its origins in Turkey, and partners also operating in the United States and the UK, Vela Partners invests in startups across a variety of industries. Firefly installs digital billboards on top of Uber and Lyft cars, allowing drivers to create an...

TURUNÇ authored the Turkey chapter of Getting the Deal Through’s Ports & Terminals (2019) title. The contributing lawyers were Esin Çamlıbel and Grace Maral Burnett. The publication is a comparative guide of the legislation relating to ports and terminals in 22 jurisdictions. The contributing editor is Alex Kyriakoulis of HFW. The guide is available on the Getting...

Managing Partner Kerem Turunç moderated the “Latest Developments and Innovation in International Arbitration” at the Ethics Rules for Arbitrators, Ethics, Latest Developments, and Innovation in Arbitration Conference organized by the Istanbul Arbitration Association (ISTA). The panelists were Pelin Baysal (Partner, Gün + Partners), Brandon Malone (Chairman, Scottish Arbitration Centre) and Marina Matousekova (Partner, CastaldiPartners). TURUNÇ...

Dr. Esin Çamlıbel was a panelists at the Uygulama ve Teori Bakımından Disiplinler Arası Kişisel Verilerin Korunması Sempozyumu (Symposium on Multidisciplinary Personal Data Protection in Practice and Theory), organized by Veri Koruma Derneği (Data Protection Association) and hosted by Yeditepe University on October 25, 2018. TURUNÇ is proud to be a founding member of the...

TURUNÇ authored the Turkey chapter of Getting the Deal Through’s Private M&A (2019) title. The contributing lawyers were Noyan Turunç, Kerem Turunç, Esin Çamlıbel, Grace Maral Burnett and Nilay Enkür. The publication is a comparative guide of the regulation of mergers and acquisitions transactions relating to private companies in 38 jurisdictions. The contributing editors are Will Pearce...