Third Decade of Practice in Turkish Capital Markets

We are sophisticated capital markets lawyers and have tremendous capital markets experience. For this reason, we really understand you and we are able to span the spectrum of capital markets offerings and provide individually tailored capital markets law solutions customized for your needs.

Okat Law’s capital markets practice reflects more than 25 years of unrivaled experience of Özge Okat in Turkish capital markets. We did not read the rules, we drafted the rules.

Our clients rely on us to cope with significant regulatory uncertainty for several years and to reduce regulatory risk with our knowledgeable, smart approach built on vast experience.

  • Highly structured equity-linked transactions.
  • Initial public offerings (IPOs)
  • Direct listings
  • SPACs
  • All types of equity-linked securities
  • Tender offers
  • Private placements
  • Rights offerings
  • Exchange offers.
  • Spin-offs
  • Crowdfunding
  • Tailor-made products
  • International offerings/Eurobonds
  • High yield and investment grade bonds
  • Convertible bonds
  • Domestic Bond Issuances
  • Conventional investment funds like UCITS
  • Venture capital funds
  • Real estate funds
  • ESG funds including socially responsible funds
  • Private funds
  • Hedge funds
  • Mortgage-backed securities
  • Asset backed securities
  • DPR securitizations
  • Whole business securitizations
  • Certificates
  • Collateralized loan obligations
  • Mortgage and asset covered bonds
  • ISDA and CSAs, transactions including
    • Total return swaps
    • Currency swaps
    • Interest rate swaps
  • Swiss derivatives
  • Cross-border and local OTC Derivatives
  • Structured derivatives
  • Repo and securities lending
  • FX hedges
  • Commodity hedges
  • Digital assets derivatives
  • Green bonds
  • Sustainable equity offering
  • Sustainable investment funds
  • ESG disclosure and reporting
  • Impact investing
  • Climate finance in capital markets
  • Prevention of money laundering
  • Capital markets.
  • Banking
  • Electronic money and payment institutions
  • ESG

Highest International Standards

Okat Law redefines legal practice in Türkiye with its unwavering commitment to excellence by providing timely, innovative, high-quality legal services to its international and local clients. We have profound expertise across a diverse spectrum of products and industries. Our success originates from this particular understanding, which enables us to produce the correct outcomes in any circumstance continuously.

At Okat Law, we seek to provide clients with the highest international standards of legal services and advise leading international and local financial institutions and growing companies on the most challenging legal matters. We are experienced in the most complex transactions, and we are well-known for our sharp, to-the-point advice on most complex regulatory issues by delving deeply into the nuances of each subject.

Cross-Border Transactions

The Firm focuses on cross-border transactions with Turkish banks and corporate counterparties. We are a flexible and dynamic law firm catering to the growing needs of modern financial entities and companies, with client satisfaction at the center of our philosophy.

Clients include;

  • Foreign and local banks
  • Multinational companies
  • Turkish subsidiaries of multinational banking groups
  • Asset management companies
  • Portfolio management companies
  • Public companies
  • Major Turkish companies
  • Fintechs
  • Brokerage companies
  • Cryptocurrency exchanges
  • International law firms
  • Foreign and local financial advisories