Kolcuoglu Demirkan Koçakli

Capital Markets, Banking and Finance

Partner

Hasan H. Yaşar has significant experience in capital markets law as well as banking and finance law.

Hasan has successfully represented multinational banks, financial institutions, brokerage firms, portfolio management companies, investment funds and publicly held companies in various cross-border and domestic capital markets transactions including swap and derivatives transactions; repo transactions; equity and debt capital markets offerings; securitization; electronic money offerings; and provision of investment services, payment services and insurance products. He has represented the underwriters in all Eurobond offerings of the Republic of Turkey in the last 10 years.

He also provides legal advice to local and foreign crypto service providers and crypto markets.

Hasan has advised clients, such as Citi, HSBC, Barclays, Bank of America, UBS, Standard Chartered, Société Générale, QNB, ISDA, ICMA, IFC, JP Morgan, Julius Baer, RBS, Deutsche Bank, UniCredit, Mizuho, Nomura, Mitsubishi Bank, Deutsche Borse, Intesa San Paulo, Binance, Franklin Templeton, Fidelity Funds, QInvest, Mediterra Capital, Turkven Private Equity (Nemo Apparel B.V.), Hepsiburada, Boyner Group, Logo Software, Alarko Holding,  Tavuk Dünyası and Mubadala.

Hasan’s recent work highlights include, legal advice to Koton’s shareholder Nemo Apparel BV on the IPO of Koton, a leading Turkish fashion retailer company; Logo Software, Turkey’s largest publicly traded software company, on the transactional day-to-day capital markets matters; and Tavuk Dünyası, a Turkish fast-food giant, on its IPO.

Hasan H. Yaşar joined Kolcuoğlu Demirkan Koçaklı as a partner in 2022. At the beginning of his career, he completed the programs of Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey and Borsa İstanbul A.Ş. (Turkish stock exchange). Before joining Kolcuoğlu Demirkan Koçaklı, he was a senior partner leading the capital markets team of another Istanbul based top-tier law firm where he worked for almost a decade.

He is the author of “What will the New Capital Markets Law Bring for Publicly Held Corporations?,” “Hissedar Magazine,” 2012/4, Issue 12 (2012).

English, Turkish

Ankara University School of Law (LL.B., 2008)