Serdar Akcasu Email & Phone Number

Ankara, TR

• Legal Affairs Director (Corporate and Business Functions)Corporate Law, Finance, Strategy, Investor Relations, Corporate Communication, Sales, Marketing, Customer Services, WholesaleHukuk İşleri Direktörü (Kurumsal ve.
• Led several teams responsible for providing legal assistance with respect to corporate law, capital markets law, corporate governance compliance, investor relations, corporate communication, marketing, sales, customer.
• Moderated general shareholder meetings, board of directors meeting and related documentation including PDP announcements.
• Led M&A, IPO, and SPO initiatives (including data room management, due diligence, negotiations, funding, regulatory clearances, and post-closing measures).
• Directed domestic and foreign bond issuance, including all related documentation, regulatory approvals, disclosure management and negotiations.
• Executed project and corporate finance projects, loan agreement negotiations and financing of local and international subsidiaries.

Ankara, TR

• Served as in-house corporate counsel, managing and administering the department in all elements of contracts and corporate law.
• Advised marketing, sales, and business development divisions on legal and regulatory compliance.
• Acted as corporate secretary, managed board of directors, executive committee, and audit committee meetings, drafted all related agreements.
• Led legal team in bond issue at the company and negotiated loan agreements.
• Directed the legal team in Initial Public Offer of company shares by the Turkish Undersecretariat of Treasury, managed Q&A phases, participated in Management DD meetings, drafted IPO circulars, and negotiated contracts.
• Directed on all aspects of domestic and international subsidiary acquisitions, including Sobee, Sebit, Innova, Argela, and Invitel International (now Türk Telekom International).

• Participated major privatization projects including the privatization of Türk Telekom A.Ş., Tupraş A.Ş., and Eregli Demir Celik A.Ş
• Participated major M&A projects including acquisition of majority shares of MNG Bank A.Ş., acquisition of shares of Şekerbank Türk A.Ş., acquisition of majority shares of Turk Dış Bank A.Ş.
• Acted as team leader in loan transactions of a US-based financial institution in extensions to various Turkish creditors
• Advised Louis Vuitton in its various corporate issues and daily legal actions in Turkey
• Represented the Turkish office of a major multinational tobacco company in certain daily legal issues, attended court hearings and prepared legal documentation and petitions in various disputes.
• Advised Ojer Telekomünikasyon A.Ş., owner of 55% shares of Türk Telekom, after the privatization in all its daily corporate law issues.

• Drafted legal documentation on various financing and corporate projects as well as foreign investment matters.
• Assisted project teams in M&A projects.
• Drafted legal opinions, updated various legal memoranda and inter office memoranda on certain Turkish law issues.
• Translated agreements, protocols, laws, administrative decisions, corporate documentation, powers of attorney and various other legal texts.
• Member of team representing certain lenders in project finance of a multinational petroleum pipeline project (BTC).
• Member of team representing International Finance Corporation in its various financing arrangements in Turkey, including the foreclosure of securities granted by the borrowers.

Bachelor Of Laws (Llb), Law

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