Okan Beygo
Turkey
ASC Law Offices
Esentepe Mh. Harman 1 Sk. No 5 Harmancı Giz
Plaza Kat 3-8-15-16-17 34394 Şişli
İstanbul, Turkey
Tel: +90 212 284 98 82
Email:
okan.beygo@aschukuk.com
Web:
www.aschukuk.com
Okan Beygo is a Founding Partner of ASC Law. Okan Beygo– along with the firm’s other two Founding Partners, Murat Aksu and Zeki Çalışkan, and Managing Partner Doğan Coşgun – is a key member of the most experienced, and successful, senior law firm leadership teams in Turkey. Okan Beygo has practiced law for 35 years and is one of Turkey’s most well-connected lawyers, with extensive networks in Turkey and abroad, as well as being one of ASC Law’s primary rainmakers.
Okan Beygo heads the firm’s Consultancy Team, under which the Banking and Finance, Commercial, Corporate, Debt Restructuring, M&A and Capital Markets, and Project Finance practices are found. As such, Okan Beygo has played a key role in the firm’s most significant engagements, including the recent Turkcell Shareholding Restructuring, in which ASC Law represented both Ziraat Bank, Turkey’s largest bank, with regard to restructured and original financing of more than US$2 billion, and Turkey’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, the central party to the restructuring itself. CEE Legal Matters recognized this transaction as Turkey’s 2020 “Deal of the Year”.
Okan Beygo’s work prior to joining ASC Law, at the global White & Case law firm and inhouse at Citibank, the Turkish Garanti Bank and Doğuş Holding conglomerate, have given him in-depth expertise and know-how in, among others, banking and finance law.
Okan Beygo has been recognized by Who’s Who Legal in 2021 as a “Global Leader” in Banking and Finance, Capital Markets and Project Finance.
Education
- LL.M., University of Geneva, International Law, 1993
- LL.M., Marmara University Faculty of Law, International Public Law, 1988
- LL.B., Marmara University Faculty of Law, 1986
We have significant experience in all the banking and finance transactions of international and domestic banks and other financial institutions. This broad experience of many years enables us to advise both lenders and borrowers in relation to debt structuring, financial restructuring, syndicated loans, derivative transactions, and aviation financing, as well as acquisition finance.
We provide legal assistance to domestic and international banks and financial institutions in every phase of their daily transactions, as well as project based transactions.
The experienced members of our litigation team also actively participate in the resolution of disputes arising from these transactions.
Aksu Çalışkan Beygo Attorney Partnership was founded in 2001. Our head office is located in Levent /Istanbul, the financial center of Turkey.
We pride ourselves on bringing together in a single law firm more than eighty lawyers with expertise in the areas of litigation, consultancy and debt collection.
Through our experienced team, we provide world-class services to a broad range of the world’s preeminent financial institutions, corporations and other enterprises, and we are at the forefront of the Turkish market with our highly acclaimed work, particularly in the areas of banking finance, project finance, public offerings and dispute resolution.
Our firm has always been a pioneer in the areas of finance and corporate law, and we provide consultancy and dispute resolution services, as well as solutions in relation to projects that are the first of their kind in the market, including energy and natural resources, banking and finance, real estate, construction and telecommunication.
We provide services throughout Turkey, primarily in İstanbul, Ankara and İzmir, by virtue of our strong connections and collaboration with local law firms.
Furthermore, we cooperate with preeminent world-wide international law firms and respected academics in line with the needs of our clients and the requirements of their projects.
“Okan Beygo is frequently advising banks and funds on restructuring matters and syndicated loan facilities.”