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Gözde Esen Sakar

Sakar Law Office

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Position: Senior Partner
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
Bar Admissions:
Istanbul
Practice Areas:
M&A
Jurisdictions:
Languages:
Turkish
English
Biography

Gözde Esen Sakar has over 25 years of experience in Corporate/Commercial Law, M&A Transactions, Joint Ventures, Capital Markets, Banking and Project Finance transactions. She has represented clients in various sectors, in particular Real Estate, Retail, Food, Energy, Oil & Gas, Mining, Infrastructure, Automotive, Healthcare, Medical Devices, Pharmaceutical, Hospitality, Technology and E-Commerce.

Gözde actively attends Belgian – Luxembourg as being the board member and she is a member of Swedish Chamber of Commerce and Swiss Chamber of Commerce in Turkey as well. In addition, Gözde has extensive experience in mining sector and is a member of World Association of Mining Lawyers.

Key practice areas
  • Asset finance
  • Banking
  • Capital markets: Debt
  • Capital markets: Derivatives
  • Capital markets: Equity
  • Capital markets: High yield
  • CLO/CDO
  • Competition
  • Covered bonds
  • Financial restructuring
  • Financial services regulatory
  • Hedge funds
  • Investment funds
  • Islamic finance
  • M&A
  • PPP/PFI
  • Private equity
  • Private equity funds
  • Project bonds
  • Project development
  • Project finance
  • Real estate finance
  • Real estate funds
  • Restructuring and insolvency
  • Securitisation
  • Structured finance/securitisation
  • Trade finance
  • Data Protection & GDPR
  • Sustainability
Sector expertise
  • Accounting
  • Agriculture
  • Aviation
  • Automotive
  • Banking
  • Construction and materials
  • Consumer goods and services
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Fisheries and aquaculture
  • Food and beverage
  • Forestry Gaming
  • Government and public policy
  • Healthcare
  • Industrials
  • Insurance
  • Investment management
  • Media
  • Mining
  • Natural resources
  • Oil and gas
  • Pharmaceutical and life sciences
  • Real estate
  • Shipping
  • Social infrastructure
  • Technology and telecommunications
  • Tourism
  • Transport Utilities
Academic qualifications
  • LLB., Ankara University, Faculty of Law, 1999
  • Contract Management, Villanova University, 2007
  • LLM, International Business Law Liverpool, John Moores University, 2010
Association/network memberships
  • Belgian-Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce
  • Swedish Chamber of Commerce
  • Swiss Chamber of Commerce
Bar Admissions
  • Istanbul Bar Association, 2000
Address:
Cumhuriyet Mah. Yeni Yol 1 Sok. Now Bomonti Plaza, Kat:4 No:33
Şişli, Istanbul, 34380
Turkey
Tel:+90 212 843 2343 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:https://www.sakarlegal.com/