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Cigdemtekin Cakirca Aranci Law Firm
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The firm: Çiğdemtekin Çakırca Arancı (CCA) is a law firm based in Istanbul and Ankara, positioned to help companies with their legal needs. They hold an enviable track record in delivering quality legal services through their commitment to assist clients to reach their business goals. CCA’s clients range from subsidiaries of multinational, Global 1000, and Fortune 500 enterprises to local companies developing industry-leading technologies.
CCA is led by some of the leading lawyers in Turkey and supported by a dynamic team who are well placed to help clients succeed on all their business dealings in Turkey.
Areas of practice
Corporate and M&A: CCA’s corporate and M&A practice is aligned with the interests of the corporate entities they advise and is grounded in industry and sector knowledge and experience. They have developed a strong sector presence in retail, energy and natural resources and technology and have handled over 100 M&A transactions. They have a solid reputation for advising on and managing complex, local and cross jurisdictional transactions with a focus on mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, privatisations, corporate restructurings, private equity and investment fund transactions, demergers, liquidation, corporate governance and compliance.
Capital markets: With strong capabilities and expertise in assisting clients to raise funds through equity and debt instruments, CCA lawyers advise on the full range of capital market transactions including mandatory tender offers, public equity and debt capital transactions, such as IPOs and follow-on offerings, rights offerings and listings in international markets. The team advises issuers and underwriters as well as selling shareholders, sponsors, arrangers, lead managers, originators, dealers, trustees and depositaries on a range of securities offerings, including equity, equity-linked and debt securities, structured and project financings.
IT and technology: CCA’s lawyers leverage their legal understanding of the market to develop sensible and ingenious solutions to business issues. CCA helps clients develop, protect and deploy innovative technologies in electronics, internet and e-commerce, software and other industries. Risk awareness is crucial when negotiating contracts, CCA’s experience in both transactional and contentious matters ensures well-informed, strategic and sound advice at every stage of a business life-cycle. The services include IT law consultancy, IT outsourcing and project consultancy, data protection, and law governing e-commerce and mobile payments areas.
Energy: CCA offers comprehensive sector knowledge and innovative solutions to challenges that often occur within the energy sector. The lawyers have demonstrated in-depth understanding of the technical, geographical, commercial and geopolitical factors that shape the energy industry and offer across-the-board coverage for their client’s energy matters, including construction and projects, corporate, competition, regulatory, contractual, trading, litigation, dispute resolution and tax issues. They have notable experience in license applications and amendments, environmental impact assessment process, emission reduction purchase contracts, expropriation, and in the construction of power plants as well as matters relating to risks emerging from climate change.
Competition: CCA’s proficient competition practice assists companies to draw up a successful business strategy by overcoming the restraints of trade, from collusive agreements among competitors and monopolistic abuse of a dominant position, to restrictive supplier or customer arrangements, joint ventures, corporate mergers and acquisitions and vertical agreements.
Media and advertising: CCA is one of the leading law firms providing legal assistance to the media and entertainment sector. The firm has a strong sector-specific client portfolio, including major media and entertainment companies. The consistent high quality of work produced has aided the practice to grow firmly into one of the leading Turkish law firms in the field of media and entertainment.