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Duygu Turgut

Duygu Turgut focuses her practice on national and cross-border mergers and acquisitions using stock, asset and merger structures, joint ventures and privatizations. She advises on buy-side and sell-side mergers and acquisitions transactions, both in initial acquisitions and subsequent investment exits. Her mergers and acquisitions experience also includes advising clients on privatizations and general corporate matters, and assisting them in the coordination and implementation of multi-jurisdictional restructuring transactions. She has worked in various industries including healthcare, energy, infrastructure, real estate, retail and insurance. In 2012, she was seconded to the Private Equity Practice Group in Baker & McKenzie’s London office.

Duygu Turgut has authored numerous articles for publication including:

• Author, Turkey chapter, Global M&A Handbook, Baker & McKenzie, 2015.
• Author, Turkey Section, Getting the Deal Through-Private Equity, Getting the Deal Through series, 2012-2015.
• Moderator, “Privatisation in Turkey and its strategic importance,” Turkish M&A and Private Equity Forum, Mergermarket, Istanbul, October 21, 2014.
• “Changing the rules of the game in business in Turkey,” IFLR Magazine Private Equity and Venture Capital Guide, 2012-2013.
• “The New Turkish Code of Obligations: Important Changes for Leases of Residential & Business Premises,” Legal 500, 2012.

Istanbul Bar Association and Turkish Bar Association.

• Mentioned as key figure for privatisations, Legal 500, 2014.
• Listed among recommended lawyers by European Legal 500, 2012-2013, and cited as a “future star” by Legal 500 in Corporate and M&A Turkey, 2013..
• According to Who’sWhoLegal, “Duygu has developed considerable expertise in the field of M&A and is recommended for her solid advice,” September 2012.

Duygu Turgut joined Esin Attorney Partnership in 2006 which became a member firm of Baker & McKenzie International, a Swiss Verein, in 2011.

• Admitted to the Istanbul bar, 2005.
• Istanbul University, Istanbul, LLB, 2003.

During her internship with the Istanbul Bar Association, Duygu Turgut was one of three trainees accepted in the association’s exchange program, and interned at Knolle Societaet, Offenbach am Main for three months in 2004.

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