LBF Partners

The firm: LBF Partners, an Istanbul based law and consultancy firm, provides full legal and consultancy services to its foreign and domestic clients both in Turkey and at international level.

Our practice focuses on banking and finance, capital markets, corporate and commercial law, competition, energy, foreign investment, information technology law, data protection, intellectual property, litigation and arbitration, white-collar crime and compliance.

All of our team members hold LLM and/or PhD degrees from well-known international universities, and we have either long-standing work experience at the regulatory and supervisory authorities in Turkey, or years of experience in large law firms.

LBF Partners was established half a decade ago by lawyers with many years of experience. The unique qualifications of our team members enables us to  combine legal theory and practice at all times.

Areas of practice
Banking and finance: covers acquisition finance, term loans, syndicated loans, asset finance, structured finance, project finance, fintech, financial regulation, compliance and sanctions, financial restructuring and resolution, real estate finance and Islamic banking and finance.

Capital markets: covers public offerings of capital markets instruments including, but not limited to, shares, bonds, mutual funds, sukuk, other securities, publicly-held joint stock companies and their transactions, investment companies and collective investment schemes, capital market institutions and their activities, investor and investment services, takeover bids and derivatives.

Commercial and corporate law: covers company formation, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, drafting commercial contracts and share or asset sales/purchases/inter-company transfers.

Competition law: covers merger notifications to the authority, representing our clients in cartel or abuse of dominance investigations, representing our clients in antitrust disputes before Turkish courts, compliance and sanctions and advising on any competition law related matter.

Energy law: covers electricity, natural gas, oil and LPG markets, renewables and mining related regulatory advisory, mergers and acquisitions, project development, construction and installation, environmental requirements and dispute resolution.

Domestic and international dispute resolution: covers advising on pre-dispute matters, structuring and re-structuring of investments, advising on complex settlements, representing in all sorts of contractual disputes, debt collection, contentious insurance and reinsurance, other sophisticated matters in particular shareholder disputes and disputes arising from M&A, and arbitration.

Data protection: covers advising on data protection compliance and all related matters.

As well as the main fields of practice listed above, LBF Partners provides legal services on foreign investment, information technology law, intellectual property, white-collar crime and compliance.