Leveraging strong sector specific understanding, new money/restructuring capabilities and knowledge of PPP frameworks, Hergüner Bilgen Üçer Attorney Partnership provides ‘high-quality advice’ to stakeholders throughout the lifecycle of large domestic and cross-border projects. The team has recently handled numerous large healthcare projects for lenders under the Build Lease Transfer (BLT) model, complex work which often involves debt financing provided by both commercial banks and IFIs. Senem Denktaş and Piraye Kuranel Başol have been pivotal to this work, with Basol also recently advising the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality on issuing its first Green Bond worth $715m on the London Stock Exchange. As well as her transactional expertise, Yeşim Api Şamlı also excels at guiding financial institutions on their operational regulatory needs and is a key member of the team that also includes transportation project finance expert Aslı Budak. All aforementioned practitioners co-head the overarching transactional group.
Key clients
- Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality
- International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation
- EBRD
- IFC
- EIB
- US International Development Finance Corporation
- Türkiye İş Bankası A.Ş.
- Export Development Canada
- Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector
Work highlights
- Advised the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality on issuing its first Green Bond worth $715m on the London Stock Exchange.
- Advised the EBRD and a group of lenders on a BLT project for a 1,875-bed integrated health campus.
- Advised the EBRD and a group of lenders on a BLT project for two integrated health campuses with a combined 3,140 beds.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Senem Denktaş, Piraye Kuranel Başol, Yeşim Api Şamlı, Aslı Budak