DURUKAN+PARTNERS

Founding Partner

Ms. Begum Durukan Ozaydin is the Founding Partner of DURUKAN+PARTNERS. She is widely recognized as a leading lawyer in the areas of banking and finance, corporate and M&A, and projects and energy.

In her career reaching 25 years, she has extensively advised financial institutions and sponsors in financings of energy, infrastructure, real estate projects, took part in structured financing deals, acted for buyers and sellers in acquisitions and privatisations, provided advice on regulated sectors such as energy, securities and insurance, lead negotiations with public and private parties, assisted in structuring of businesses of corporations who are world leaders in their fields and during their operations.  

She has also been instrumental in structuring, negotiating and advising on acquisitions and privatizations, capital markets and corporate matters, regulatory issues in sectors such as energy, telecoms, securities, real estate and insurance.

She was previously partner of one of the recognised law firms in Turkey, where she acted as the partner supervising almost all the legal work produced, and took managerial responsibilities.

Ms. Durukan Ozaydin is recognized as an expert in Turkish law in publications such as Legal 500 where she has been ranked as a leading individual in Banking, Finance and Capital Markets and Project Finance/Projects sections.

English, French (basic) and Turkish

Istanbul Bar AssociationNew York State Bar AssociationIstanbul International Law Institute, Vice Chairman of the BoardFirst Law International Network, Member of the Advisory BoardGeorgetown University Alumni AssociationAmerican Collegiate Institute Alumni AssociationFriends of Jessup

Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M. in Common Law Studies, 1998)Dokuz Eylul University, School of Law (LL.B., 1996)