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Did You Know that, according to the Activity Rankings function of the CEELMDirect website, Paksoy Partner Elvan Aziz and Turunc Partner Kerem Turunc have both worked on 36 reported deals in Turkey since 2013, putting them in a two-way tie atop the leaderboard in the country in that time?
Turunc has advised Bogazici Ventures on participating in a USD 700,000 investment round into Enhencer. Kinstellar Turkish affiliate Gen Temizer Ozer advised Diffusion Capital Partners on leading the round.
Turunc has advised Bogazici Ventures on its participation in a USD 2 million investment round in Craftgate together with AK Portfoy and APY Ventures. The Gemicioglu law office advised Craftgate and, reportedly, the Aksan law firm advised APY Ventures.
Turunc has advised Istanbul-based Ege Kimya San. ve Tic. A.S. on a collaboration agreement with France-based Amber Energy for designing, building, and operating a cathode active material precursor pilot plant in Sakarya, Turkey.
Inflation, currency depreciation, and low foreign currency reserves might lead to early elections in Turkey, but Turunc Partner Kerem Turunc chooses to focus on the positives: the buzz around the startup scene in the country.
Turunc has advised Wellbees on its recent 212 VC-led funding round. Moroglu Arseven advised 212 VC on the deal.
Former Ata Holding Legal Counsel Yasemin Erden has returned to private practice as a Partner at Turunc.
Turunc has advised Bogazici Ventures on leading a USD 500,000 investment round into Kavaken. Ozbek Attorney Partnership reportedly advised Kavaken.
Turunc has advised Bogazici Ventures on its investment in Producter.
Turunc has advised Bogazici Ventures on its investment in hyper-casual game developer NDG Studio.
Turunc has advised Logo Ventures and Tech One on their investment into Evreka. Gokce advised Evreka on the investment round.
Turunc has advised Turkish venture capital fund HiVC on its secondary capital raise.
Turunc has advised Bogazici Ventures on its USD 430.000 investment into Fiber Games. Tevetoglu reportedly advised Fiber Games.
Turunc has advised Bogazici Ventures on leading a TRY 7.8 million investment round into Acrome coding platform Riders. Ak Portfoy participated in the round. Erturan Sit Kosgeroglu reportedly advised Acrome and Riders on the deal.
Turunc has advised Bogazici Ventures on its TRY 4 million investment in the online therapy platform Hiwell. Tevetoglu advised Hiwell on the deal.
Turunc has advised Lycian Capital Partners on the formation of its regulated private equity fund.
Turunc and Goodwin Procter have advised virtual and hybrid experiences platform Hopin on its acquisition of onsite event platform Boomset. Ilhanli Baser and Koenig, Oelsner, Taylor, Schoenfeld & Gaddis advised Boomset on the deal.
The Turunc Law Firm has advised Bogazici Ventures on its USD 1.4 million investment into Tarentum, a developer of machine learning and artificial intelligence technology solutions. The Ozbek law firm advised Tarentum on the deal.
TURUNÇ is a true full-service law firm, providing transactional and preventive advice, as well as dispute resolution services to clients through offices in each of the three largest cities in Turkey, and a representative office in Washington, DC. Since the firm was founded in 1990, it has built and maintained its practice on a core set of ideas and values:
Excellence – We provide the highest quality of service in each of our practice areas and take pride in the work we do. Our work is highly sophisticated, and requires extensive experience and attention. To deliver to our clients the representation they need, we hire the best talent available and provide them with constant training. The result is a team of technically outstanding lawyers who also understand business matters and bring commercial solutions to our clients’ needs and problems..
Strong relationships with clients – We strive to build long-lasting relationships with all of our clients. We work hard to understand their businesses and the industries in which they operate. Our primary goal with every client is to gain their trust and build a long-term relationship with them. We try become an integral part of every client’s business—a team member they can turn to when in need..
Teamwork and collegiality – We work hard but we refuse to lose our perspective on life. Since our founding, we have always maintained a friendly, open and inclusive firm culture in which individuality and independent thinking are highly prized. Our lawyers work in collaborative, collegial teams across our practice areas and offices..
Social responsibility – We are proud to be members of the legal profession and understand the role we can play towards achieving positive social change. To that end, we encourage our lawyers to do pro bono work and we treat our pro bono matters with the same attention as we do any other matter.
Areas of practice
TURUNÇ’s practice encompasses all areas of corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, funds, technology, capital markets, banking, finance, competition, intellectual property, employment law and dispute resolution across the full range of industries.
On corporate transactions, in addition to the transactional advice it provides, the firm also handles all specialized areas, such as competition, intellectual property and labor law in-house, making transactions seamless and efficient. TURUNÇ also provides full ongoing legal advice post-closing in all areas.
TURUNÇ’s corporate strength is matched by its deep experience in dispute resolution. Its team litigates several hundred cases each year in various industries across a wide range of areas. These include competition, corporate and commercial, finance, insolvency, insurance, intellectual property, real estate, administrative and tax litigation, and tort and product liability defense.