CE Partners focuses on a wide range of corporate/M&A, finance, capital markets, infrastructure and energy work where it already enjoys a strong reputation with major domestic and international businesses active in the Turkish market.
CE Partners is an expert in key growth sectors in Türkiye, advising the world's leading organisations – with innovative legal solutions to their business and strategic needs.
Practice areas
Banking and finance
The firm offers a market-renowned finance practice acting on many of the ground-breaking deals and introducing new financial products in the Turkish market, advising on a full spectrum of financial products, including asset finance, derivatives and structured finance, Islamic finance, leveraged and acquisition finance, projects and infrastructure finance and real estate finance.
Corporate and M&A
The firm advises local and international strategic and financial investors in their domestic and outbound M&A transactions, focusing on cross-border acquisitions, public and private M&A, management/leveraged buy-outs and asset/business transfers and offering the combination of specialist industry expertise across various sectors from financial services to energy and resources and healthcare.
Capital markets
The firm covers the whole spectrum of capital markets work including debt and equity transactions, structured debt, high yield and advises major market participants including leading financial institutions, corporates and the Turkish government.
Islamic finance
The firm has been involved in Islamic financing techniques and Islamic product development and is also highly regarded for its Islamic finance practice. CE Partners helps deliver financing solutions for both investors and issuers/borrowers and advises on a wide range of Islamic financial services and products including capital markets, project and infrastructure finance, acquisition and leveraged finance, asset finance, structured products and derivatives and real estate finance.
Private equity
CE Partners has extensive experience in representing both domestic and international private equity firms in their investments in Türkiye in a variety of sectors, advising on cross-border transactions covering a variety of investment strategies, including buyouts and growth capital transactions, real estate private equity and investment, spin-outs and portfolio acquisitions and divestitures.
Project finance
The firm has extensive experience in conventional power, renewables, oil/gas/mining, ports/airports, bridges, roads, hospitals and telecommunications. In line with the firm’s in-depth knowledge and experience of the regulatory framework, CE Partners plays a major role advising lenders in healthcare PPP projects and on energy and infrastructure M&A transactions. The firm is unique in its ability to understand the needs of lenders, other financiers (including conventional term facility lenders, financiers in bond markets as well as funds and Islamic investors), sponsors (including Turkish and international developers and investors) and public authorities.
Sectors
We are committed to supporting our clients in those areas where their partnership with us can bring real value. Our combined sector and practice area approach enables us to remain at the forefront of legal and commercial developments, so that we can work with our clients to identify opportunities and anticipate challenges.
Banks
We are involved in many of the market's ground-breaking deals. Our specialist knowledge of the sector and its issues enables our lawyers to provide results driven commercial advice to banks on some of their most complex transactions and to help them address some of their most challenging business issues.
- M&A in the banking industry
The ongoing market turmoil continues to drive M&A activity across the sector as institutions seek to reshape their operating models or capitalise on new opportunities. We have a pre-eminent reputation for advising a significant number of banks on complex strategic disposals or acquisitions.
- Banking products
Changes in market sentiment and the needs of clients has led many banks to refine and update the product set they offer. Our market leading Finance practice provide advice in relation to the full spectrum of financial products including syndicated lending and leveraged and acquisition finance, asset finance, derivative products, project finance, financial regulatory, insolvency & restructuring, debt capital markets, equity capital markets, structured debt and structured finance.
Consumer Goods & Retail
We have a fundamental understanding of the continually changing business environment and the commercial, competitive and compliance pressures that the Consumer Goods & Retail sector is facing. We are ideally placed to help clients meet these challenges and achieve their strategic objectives. We support our clients in this sector in all key areas of their business, from strategic growth and divestments to commercial relationships and regulatory compliance.
Energy & Resources
We are committed to helping clients keep pace with market and regulatory developments, as well as enabling entry into new markets. Whether it is in relation to greenfield developments, or M&A and refinancing of equity assets or portfolios, we specialise in helping our clients identify and manage risks by providing top tier legal advice combined with industry knowledge and an acute awareness of your commercial drivers.
Healthcare, Life Sciences & Chemicals
We focus on industry sectors so that we can provide you with access to our combined knowledge, expertise and experience by sector; and lawyers who know the risks and challenges within your industry and who proactively bring insights to you.
Our sector approach ensures that our lawyers truly understand the healthcare, life sciences & chemicals industries with their regulatory and commercial challenges. At the same time, it avoids the built-up of silos between different areas of law so that we are able to deliver to our clients commercially sound and legally robust solutions focused to their business objectives.
Industrials
The sector is facing big challenges and some structural changes will be required in response. Our experience advising on business-critical projects gives us insights into the issues clients will encounter and the ways through them, helping clients overcome these challenges. Our team has in-depth understanding of the key business challenges for industrial companies which provide both the capital goods and raw materials for worldwide production facilities. We also work with industry leaders in the automotive, aerospace and defence sectors, providing services closely aligned to their strategic and operational business needs.
Infrastructure
We are a recognised market leader and are consistently ranked at the top of the infrastructure and project finance league tables and directories. Our integrated global network provides full-service capabilities at every stage in the infrastructure value chain from fund formation to the structuring and financing of projects through to mergers and acquisitions. We offer clients a dedicated team of lawyers with the right balance of specific experience, industry knowledge and legal skills to deliver a world class service to our clients.
Private Equity
We advise on the private equity life cycle from fund formation, capital deployment, M&A, public to privates, all types of debt and equity financing, growth and restructurings to exits. The diversity of our financial investor client base including private equity houses, multi asset managers, portfolio companies, infrastructure, real estate, sovereign wealth and pension funds enables us to provide expert advice on market terms across all investment structures including secondaries and co-investments.
Real Estate
Acting for the real estate industry's leading players, we advise on the full range of real estate-related transactions. Forward thinking and commercial in our approach, with a recognised ability to deliver complex deals, we handle the entire property 'life-cycle' from the initial acquisition, development, leasing, joint venturing and financing through to the final exit.
Telecommunications, Media & Technology
TMT businesses require the right mix of industry knowledge and experience. We invest time to understand your strategic objectives, offering relevant and practical advice across the world's major business hubs. Our team offers a wide range of legal advice: including mergers and acquisitions, antitrust and competition, compliance and TMT regulatory advice, finance and capital markets.
Transport & Logistics
The transport and logistics industry is an industry with evolving legal and regulatory demands requiring advice and counsel that looks beyond the borders of a single country. While trying to gain a competitive advantage in this sector our clients face tightening regulatory structures, an increasing need for innovative financing techniques, and escalating liability and insurance risks. It is becoming increasingly important to be aware of the latest legal developments, especially when crossing borders. Through our work with leading transport and logistics companies, their advisers and their suppliers, we have developed the industry knowledge required to provide specialised support.