D&D Law Office

THE FIRM: D&D Law Office was established in Istanbul by Yagiz Ali DAGLI and Prof. Dr. Ugur ALACAKAPTAN and has enjoyed a constant growth since then, with an accelerating phase in recent years which led to a strong increase in the number of employed lawyers and associated counsels as well in the diversification of its fields of specialization. D&D has an outstanding reputation for its high quality service to clients from EUROPE, ASIA, AMERICA, as well as within TURKEY. The firm is recommended by several domestic and international institutions and General Consulates in Turkey and abroad.

D&D’s partners and more than twenty associate lawyers, counsels and paralegals have diverse backgrounds, training and experience and are at least bilingual. D&D’s main objective is to provide creative, practical advice at the highest level of quality based not only on the strong legal background, but also on understanding the client’s businesses and needs, in the industries in which they operate. The result: creative, prompt and satisfactory solutions and full-legal service to its clients.

PRINCIPAL AREAS OF WORK: 

MERGERS & ACQUISITION & JOINT VENTURE:

D&D’s lawyers provided legal advice and assistance on mergers and acquisitions including due diligence investigations, leverage and management buy-outs, joint ventures, restructurings. Transactions involved include, tender offers, restructurings, spin-offs, leveraged buy-outs, and "going-private" transactions.

CORPORATE&COMMERCIAL LAW:

D&D’s corporate and commercial lawyers advise clients on a complete range of business law matters. Each lawyer has expertise in one or more specific areas of business law such as business organization, commercial transactions, corporate governance and administration, winding-up procedures and re-organization of company structures, contract law, corporate liability, securities law, mergers, and divestitures, domestic trade and international trade and investment.

BANKING AND FINANCE LAW:

The services provided include secured and unsecured lending, structured finance and acquisition finance, operating and term loan facilities, BO and BOT projects and contracts, project financing, lending documentation, portfolio acquisitions and disposals, renegotiation and restructuring of debt, letters of credit and import/export financing.

REAL ESTATE LAW: 

D&D is able to assist its clients with timely and efficient solutions on how best to structure all aspects of the acquisition, financing, subdivision, development, leasing and sale of real property.

LITIGATION & ARBITRATION:

D&D’s seasoned experience in the field of litigation and procedural law has been acquired through years of elaborate work representing clients in complex high profile litigation cases and national and international commercial arbitration, including trial advocacy practice D&D’s lawyers provided legal advice and assistance on mergers and acquisitions including due diligence investigations, leverage and management buy-outs, joint ventures, restructurings. Transactions involved include, tender offers, restructurings, spin-offs, leveraged buy-outs, and "going-private" transactions.

LITIGATION & ARBITRATION:

CLIENTELE: 

D&D carried out a sum of 500,000,000.00 USD gross transaction volume for last year only. Some of our key clients are Garanti Bank, Erdemir Group, Maya Group/IKEA, Yasar Group, Dubai Port World, Oyak Omsan Logistics, Syham Telecom, Chemo Group, UBM Consultancy, Pak Group, Vakko Group, Ansett World Wide Aviation Group, Tezman Group and so forth.