Kolcuoglu Demirkan Koçakli

Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate and Commercial

Counsel

With significant experience in corporate and commercial law and M&A, Begüm İnceçam Kolcuoğlu has been heavily involved in several M&A transactions, including Turkey’s landmark deals. Her M&A experience includes a variety of transaction types, involving joint ventures, public and private companies active in different sectors such as energy, insurance, retail, electronics and financial services.

She has been advising multinational corporations, leading private equities as well as local entities, such as Vitol, Petrol Ofisi, Talanx Group, Mediterra Capital, Turkven Private Equity, İş Private Equity, HDI Insurance, Logo Software and Bedminster Capital both in their cross-border and local transactions.

In recent years, Begüm advised Vitol, one of the world’s largest energy companies, on its acquisition of Petrol Ofisi, Turkey’s leading fuel products distributor, from OMV AG for USD 1.45 billion; and Talanx Group, a leading German insurance group, on its acquisition of a majority stake in Liberty Insurance, a Turkish non-life insurance company. More recently, she advised HDI Insurance, 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; Vitol, and its Turkish subsidiary Petrol Ofisi on the acquisition of BP’s Turkish downstream fuel operations; and Mediterra Capital, one of Turkey’s prominent private equity firms, on its partial exit from Uğurlu Balık, a leading sustainable Turkish sea food producer, through a share sale to E20 Investment Limited, which is a well-resourced agribusiness investment company based in the United Arab Emirates.

Begüm İnceçam Kolcuoğlu has been working at Kolcuoğlu Demirkan Koçaklı since 2008. In 2015, she was seconded to and worked in a major London-based law firm, Slaughter and May.

English, Italian, Turkish

Istanbul Marmara University School of Law (LL.B., 2007).