Kolcuoglu Demirkan Koçakli

Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate and Commercial

Partner

Bihter Bozbay İnan has significant experience in M&A, joint ventures, corporate and finance transactions.

She advises leading private equity and investment firms, such as Turkven Private Equity, Mediterra Capital, MIC Capital, True Value Capital Partners, Oakley Capital, Bain Capital, as well as international and local corporations, such as Doğan Holding, BluTv, team.blue, NN Group, HDI Insurance, Tavuk Dünyası, BioIVT LLC, Elif Holding, Bunzl, Vinmar Group, Vansan, BMS Group, R Vent Medikal, Glasshouse and Clonera Bilişim. She leads the Firm’s M&A team in numerous transactions involving various sectors. Bihter advises clients on all aspects of their investments, from entry to exit and with any add-on investments, both in Turkey and abroad.

Bihter also advises on banking and finance projects involving domestic and international corporations and financial institutions, including the Deutsche Investitions-und Entwicklungsgesellschaft, Barwa Bank, İşBank, NEF, Merrill Lynch, Eurobank Tekfen (Burgan Bank), Odea Bank, Garanti Bank, Vakıfbank, Wittur, Landesbank Baden-Württemberg and Samsung C&T Corporation.

Bihter’s transactional experience sees her advising across a variety of attractive sectors, including media and entertainment, technology, financial services, insurance, food, healthcare, chemicals, packaging and manufacturing.

In recent years, Bihter advised BluTV, Turkey’s first SVOD platform, and its shareholders in connection with  the sale of a minority stake to Warner Bros. Discovery, a global media giant based in the USA,  as well as the subsequent sale of the remaining stake to Warner Bros. Discovery; team.blue on several acquisitions of Turkey’s outstanding hosting and domain name registration service providers; Vinmar International, a global leading marketing and distribution company based in Texas, USA, in connection with the acquisition of several leading Turkish companies operating in chemical industry; MIC Capital Management 39 RSC Ltd, a fund owned by Abu Dhabi state investor, Mubadala, in connection with its investment in Getir B.V. by way of share subscription; Turkven, one of Turkey’s leading private equity funds, on its acquisition of a minority stake in Alterna Gıda, a fast-growing healthy snack manufacturer; and BMS Group on its entry into the Turkish markets, including the acquisition of BMS Insurance Brokerage. More recently, she advised HDI Sigorta, one of Turkey's leading insurance companies and a Talanx AG subsidiary, on its acquisition of a majority stake in Fiba Emeklilik ve Hayat, a prominent life insurance and pension company in Turkey; Mediterra Capital on the sale of its shares in Paycore, a prominent payment services provider, to Param, the largest full-stack payment service provider of Turkey; and R Vent Medikal, a sector-leading healthcare medical device company based in Izmir, and its shareholders on the sale of R Vent Medikal to Plastiflex Group NV, a leading company in the production of tubing systems and components for medical and industrial applications.

Bihter Bozbay is an M&A partner at Kolcuoğlu Demirkan Koçaklı. She joined the Firm in 2013, after completing her legal internship with Garanti Bank, the second largest private bank in Turkey, and spending four years at an Istanbul-based law firm. Bihter became one of the Firm’s partners in 2019.

She is a co-author of “International Comparative Legal Guide - Mergers & Acquisitions” Turkey Chapter, 16th edition, Global Legal Group (2022) and “The Acquisition and Leveraged Finance Review”, Turkey Chapter, 4th-6th editions, the Law Reviews (2017-2019)

English, Turkish

Bahçeşehir University School of Law (LL.B., 2009).