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Özgür Kocabaşoğlu is a Partner and the Head of Corporate of Erdem & Erdem. Mr. Kocabaşoğlu has nearly 20 years of experience in national and multijurisdictional complex merger and acquisitions, structuring, banking, capital markets transactions, corporate and project finance.
He has extensive experience of international transactions involving a number of overseas jurisdictions in a variety of business sectors including energy, mining, transportation, ports, airports, construction, finance, retail and real estate.
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Law No. 7262 dated 27.12.2020 introduced an obligation to notify the Central Registry Agency (“CRA”) regarding the issuance and transfer of bearer shares under the Turkish Commercial Code No. 6102 (“TCC”) and stipulates that those who violate the notification requirement under Art. 486/2 of the TCC shall be...
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Employee shareholding, which means the ownership of some or all of the capital of a publicly traded or closed company by employees, has attracted great interest in many countries around the world, particularly in the United States of America, due to the advantages it provides to the national economy, the...
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Turkish Commercial Code No. 6102 (“TCC”) preserves the rule that the board of directors shall manage and represent joint stock companies. The TCC regulates how the power of representation shall be exercised, the registration and announcement of the persons authorized to represent, the transfer of the...
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The goal of this article is to explain and compare asset backed and asset based sukuk structures and their application in Turkish leasing certificate issuance. Sukuk, an Arabic word which is the plural of Sakk, is the common name of sharia compliant bonds also referred to as Islamic bonds. However, the Arabic word...
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The regulation applicable to all Turkish ports prepared by the Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications that entered into force after being published in the official gazette on October 31, 2012 (˝the Regulation˝), consolidates all the bylaws, regulations and instructions in a single Regulation...
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As a rule, rights and obligations arising from an agreement have legal consequences only between the creditor and the debtor which are parties to the agreement. This principle is referred to as "privity of contract." In general, contracts for the benefit of third parties, where the fulfillment of an...
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Public-private partnerships (“PPP”) take a wide range of forms varying to the extent of involvement of, and risk taken, by the private party. The terms of a PPP are typically set out in a contract or agreement, often subject to the private law, to outline the responsibilities of each party and allocation of risk...