Kolcuoglu Demirkan Koçakli

The ‘very diligent and commercially-minded’ team at Kolcuoglu Demirkan Koçakli acts for clients in highly regulated sectors across a range of transactional work, where clients benefit from the firm’s ’second to none’ knowledge of the M&A process. As well as regularly handling work on behalf of high-profile blue-chip corporates on their inbound transactional activity, the firm has gained a market-leading reputation advising on funds-related M&A matters. Here, under the guidance of Umut Kolcuoğlu, the practice regularly advises core client Turkven Private Equity on its downstream investment activity, as well as handling a considerable amount of work for Middle Eastern investors, including UAE sovereign wealth fund Mubadala. ‘Organized, detail-oriented and informative’, Gökçe İldiri Coşgüner is increasingly key to the firm’s success on the private equity front, and alongside the ’exceptional’ Bihter Bozbay Inan, who also has niche expertise at handling bank M&A, is recognised as a rising force in the team. Serhan Koçaklı  co-heads the team with Kolcuoğlu and as part of his advisory offering, has a focus on establishing/improving corporate governance structure for family-owned businesses.