Tax & Legal
Sezer Caliskan, Partner at Taboglu and Demirhan
Sezer Caliskan discusses how his firm make its claim within the Turkish market, and how the nation’s domestic market is growing within the global mergers and acquisitions market.
February 18, 2010Related by the tag M&A Law
Tax & Legal
Pedro Oller, Senior Partner, Oller Abogados
Costa Rica has been opening and expanding its economy since the 1990s, enacting significant free trade agreements and reforming its laws to enable international integration. Costa Rica’s business disputes, however, are still being resolved offshore. Pedro Oller has worked with the country’s government to reform their arbitration laws: he discusses his vision to make Costa Rica an arbitration hub in Latin America.
March 7, 2012
Tax & Legal
Vijay Sambamurthi, Founding Partner, Lexygen
India is a complex market for M&A and private equity. Cultural challenges – Indian business owners are often reluctant to surrender control – are compounded by regulatory ones – such as exchange controls and sector restrictions. In this context Lexygen is renowned for working on trend-setting, market-defining transactions. Vijay Sambamurthi discusses the importance of innovation in “Indianising” PE firms’ objectives and rationale.
February 13, 2012
Tax & Legal
Richard W Silverthorn, Attorney, Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek
The scale of today’s M&A transactions means corporate lawyers must call upon an incredible array of specialists – in tax, real estate, employment and anti-trust, to name but a few – to achieve a quality result for their clients. Richard W Silverthorn discusses the many strategic considerations of planning and executing a transaction, and the importance of experience and comprehensive due diligence.
February 3, 2012Related by the tag Turkey
Energy
Murat Kutluturk and Candas Gulez, ETRM Energy Consultancy and Risk Management
ETRM is a global energy consultancy, working at every level – from generation and transmission to distribution and service – across the wholesale, retail and utility sectors. Murat and Candas explain how the company works to internationalise best practice, Turkey’s new pricing mechanism for renewable energy, and its role as a bridge between eastern suppliers and western consumers.
April 9, 2012
Insurance & Pensions
Yιlmaz Yιldιz, CEO, Groupama
The Turkish economy has performed impressively over the last three years, with one of the fastest growth rates after China. The pensions and insurance sector has mirrored this performance, but although growth is strong (15 percent), excessive competition and regulation hinders profitability. Yιlmaz Yιldιz discusses the way forward for the sector in a country where the premium per capita is just one sixth of the European benchmark.
February 22, 2012
Telecoms
Görkhan Bozkurt, CEO, Türk Telekom
Türk Telekom is the incumbent fixed-line operator in Turkey, and is using its strong market share to deliver ‘convergence’: packages of complementary communication services with value-added benefits. Görkhan Bozkurt discusses the significance of this strategy for retail and corporate growth, and the investments already yielding rewards for the company.
January 25, 2012