TÜRKIYE Law and Practice Contributed by: Serkan Gül, Nazım Kurt and Türkay Avanaş, Hergüner Bilgen Üçer Attorney Partnership
Hergüner Bilgen Üçer Attorney Partnership is com - posed of approximately 140 individuals with a variety of educational and professional backgrounds. The 80-member legal team, 16 of whom are Hergüner partners, is involved in cases that require a full grasp of Turkish and cross-border jurisdictions as well as different cultures and languages. The firm’s real es - tate team advises the world’s leading international re - tailers, real estate funds and developers in Türkiye’s most famous shopping and residential complexes, urban regeneration projects and tourism facilities. In
addition to pure real estate transactions, the team also provides permitting and licensing-related ad - vice, and cross-disciplinary input in infrastructure projects along with the firm’s infrastructure and pro - ject finance team, as every infrastructure project has a real estate leg including both privately owned and government-owned/controlled land. The real estate team also specialises in sophisticated real estate liti - gation and arbitration, and represents local and inter - national developers and investors before the courts and arbitral tribunals.
Authors
Serkan Gül is a partner at Hergüner Bilgen Üçer and head of the firm’s real estate practice group. He is a member of the Association of Real Estate and Real Estate Investment Companies (GYODER), the Centre for
Nazım Kurt is a partner in Hergüner Bilgen Üçer’s litigation and real estate departments. He is well known and recognised in the Turkish real estate industry through his significant involvement in real estate-based
Strategic Thinking in Real Estate (GİSP) and the International Law Institute. He advises clients on every aspect of real estate transactions, including asset and share deals, from a project’s inception to completion. He has extensive experience in real estate investment funds and trusts, sale and leaseback transactions, construction, and zoning and permitting in deals that include residential properties, offices, shopping centres, hotels and port facilities. He has written extensively on the subject of real estate.
organisations such as the Association of Real Estate and Real Estate Investment Companies (GYODER), Real Estate Türkiye (GMTR) and the Centre for Strategic Thinking in Real Estate (GİSP). He represents local commercial developers and international investors both in deal structuring and in court, and has extensive experience in commercial real estate litigation, negotiations, international dispute resolution, project development, permitting and licensing.
Türkay Avanaş is a senior associate in Hergüner Bilgen Üçer’s
transactional practice group, working primarily with the real estate team. He assists the team with zoning, construction, licensing and permits, and agreements such as rent, sales, promise to sell and construction.
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