Drawing on its banking, real estate and corporate teams, DURUKAN+PARTNERS’ projects group demonstrates a recent focus on hotel development. It also contributes experience in energy and infrastructure-related matters. Corporate and finance partner Begüm Durukan Özaydin co-heads the department together with Hikmet Fadillioğlu, whose broad practice encompasses corporate transactions and real estate law.
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Key clients
- China Development Bank
- Emaar Libadiye, Emaar Properties
- Ansaldo Energia
- Apple
Work highlights
- Advised Ansaldo Energia as shareholder in connection with the default under the financing documents of Yeni Elektrik, the operator of the 865MW gas-fired combined cycle power plant in Gebze.
- Advised Emaar in connection with the project financing and refinancings of the Emaar Square Project in Istanbul.
- Advised Sovcombank on a $600m financing to Akkuyu Nuclear Power Project and its proposed partial assignment to another bank; the assignment was suspended upon the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
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Begüm Durukan Özaydın, Hikmet Fadıllıoğlu