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2 July 2015
Appointment | Turkey | Projects (Finance & Infrastructure) | Banking & Finance
Gide is pleased to announce that Erkan Ayaz, a lawyer specialising in project finance, banking & finance and infrastructure projects, has joined its associated firm in Turkey Özdirekcan Dündar Şenocak as Counsel.
Erkan Ayaz has extensive experience in banking and finance transactions, in particular project finance, leveraged/acquisition finance, Islamic finance, real estate finance, asset finance and structured finance, and acts on legal and regulatory matters for banks, financial institutions, sponsors and other transaction parties in domestic and international projects in the fields of energy (oil & gas, mining, hydro and renewable), transportation (airports, highways, maritime ports), hospitals or other infrastructure projects. He is widely recognised as a leading finance expert, having worked on a number of benchmark transactions since 1999 on the Turkish market.
Erkan joins from Clifford Chance’s associated law firm in Turkey where he was Of Counsel. With his in-depth experience in structuring energy and infrastructure project, preparing tendering documents, drafting and negotiating project and financing documents, he will strengthen both Gide Turkey’s Banking & Finance and Projects (Finance & Infrastructure) practices.
“It is with great pleasure that I welcome Erkan to our team. I am confident that his contribution as a very experienced practitioner in banking & finance and infrastructure projects will add a significant expertise to our team, at a time when project financing is booming in Turkey as it seeks to develop its infrastructure”, says Gide’s resident partner in Turkey, Matthieu Roy.
