With a longstanding reputation for legal excellence and client-focused approach, our banking and finance team plays a central role in advising clients on sophisticated cross-border and domestic financial transactions. We are deeply integrated into the evolving financial landscape—partnering with lenders, borrowers, sponsors, and investors to deliver creative legal solutions across a wide spectrum of financing matters. Whether navigating complex debt structures, private credit transactions, or regulatory frameworks, our Banking & Finance practice operates at the forefront of financial legal services in Türkiye and beyond. 

Our comprehensive practice covers every financing structure and deal type in the financial markets. With our deep expertise and sharp market insight, we aim at empowering our clients to make informed decisions, navigate uncertainty, and execute their financing goals with confidence.

Financing Structures 

Our team is well-versed in the full suite of lending solutions, including bilateral and syndicated loans, term facilities, revolving credit lines, bridge financings and IRR-driven investments. Our lender-side advice considers any specific requirements of the finance industry and the trends in terms of both financial markets and ESG principles. On the borrower side, we regularly provide versatile and on the clock legal advice on various financing needs and amendment requests, on matters as diverse as trapped cash and treasury management arrangements. 

With the increasingly prominent role of private credit in global finance, we have been providing support to both borrowers and lenders—ranging from traditional banks to alternative debt providers and private credit funds—on direct lending structures tailored to their risk profiles and strategic objectives. We also routinely guide our clients on security structuring of asset-backed lending transactions, accompanying them through the deal specific issues.

Our experience spans multiple sectors, including manufacturing, infrastructure, energy, and technology, and we are known for structuring legally robust, commercially sound financing arrangements that comply with both domestic and international regulations. From initial structuring to execution and post-closing matters, we provide seamless legal support across the life cycle of the financing.

Deal Types

We work closely with financial institutions, commercial lenders, private equity funds, corporates, and non-bank lenders to provide clear, actionable guidance on transactions that often involve multiple jurisdictions and regulatory frameworks.

Leveraged Finance

We support our clients throughout the lifecycle of their investment, from initial acquisition to refinancing and – in many cases – exit, dealing with all financing needs and cash management solutions as they arise in the meantime.

We have a deep understanding of the leveraged financing market and our ability to handle most complex investor requirements uniquely position us to advise both lenders and borrowers on acquisition financings.

Project Finance

With decades of experience guiding clients through infrastructure financings, privatisations, renewable energy financings and other project finance transactions, we position ourselves uniquely to cater to our client needs in a concise manner, backed by regulatory and market-specific advice. 

We are also well versed in advising international financial institutions and banks on the refinancing alternatives of the initial project financings through debt capital markets instruments or debt restructurings.

Structured Finance

Our experience ranges from the first-ever securitisations in the Turkish market to notes issuances backed by diversified payment rights (DPRs) which have been an alternative funding route for Turkish banks for decades. We also have cross-border synthetic securitisation experience and keep a close eye on market and regulatory developments to see further issuances in the Turkish market. Our banking team and our tax specialists collaborate seamlessly to deliver a service that is carefully tailored to the needs of our clients.

Corporate Finance

Our team is able to draw expertise from our institutional lending and private credit experience and is versatile enough to adapt security structures, borrowing methods and covenant packages to the needs of our clients. We have worked on covenant lite financings, structured multi-layered security packages and negotiated ESG-linked requirements both on lender and borrower sides and are able to provide on-point legal advice.

Syndicated Lending

We rely on our in-depth experience representing international lenders in their syndicated lending to Turkish banks and top-tier corporates and understand the market dynamics required to provide strategic advice.

Mezzanine Finance

We have experience representing international investors such as international financial institutions, energy funds, investment banks and sovereign wealth funds in their debt and equity investments in Turkish companies. We can adapt ourselves to both borrower needs and lender requirements to let them form solid cooperations.