Ö. Tayga Ak

Managing Partner

Contact:
tak@ak.av.tr


Mr. Ak focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and cross-border transactions and financings with particular experience in consumer and tobacco products, energy, financial services, high-tech manufacturing, information technology, mining, pharmaceuticals and real estate sectors.

Mr. Ak’s experience also includes advising local and multinational companies, private investment groups, joint ventures, commercial banks and other financial institutions on domestic and cross-border matters.

Mr. Ak also represents clients in sovereign state and investor arbitrations as well as in international commercial and construction arbitrations under ICC, UNCITRAL and ICSID rules.

EDUCATION

  • Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M., International Legal Studies (2005)
  • Istanbul University, LL.B. (2000)

ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Nominated as leading individual in the M&A Sector by Chambers Global 2012

PUBLICATIONS

  • Corporate Governance: Turkey (GMB Research/GMB Publishing Company, 2009), Co-Author
  • Insolvency regulations in Turkey for “Insolvency Law in South East Europe” (GMB Research/GMB Publishing Company, 2008), Co-Author
  • New Labor Law (ISI Emerging Markets, 2004)

MEMBERSHIPS

  • Istanbul Bar Association
  • Istanbul University Faculty of Law Alumni Association
  • Georgetown University Alumni Association

LANGUAGES

  • English
  • Turkish