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We are pleased to announce the promotion of Neyzar Ünübol and Begüm Biçer İlikay to Partners.

Neyzar Ünübol has 18 years of experience in competition law, including nearly 12 years at the Turkish Competition Authority as a competition expert. Since joining Kolcuoğlu Demirkan Koçaklı in 2019, she has been leading the Firm’s competition law practice, advising clients on all aspects of competition law, from investigations to merger control and compliance.

Begüm Biçer İlikay joined Kolcuoğlu Demirkan Koçaklı in 2016. She has 13 years of extensive experience in dispute resolution, compliance, and internal investigations. Begüm advises and represents both domestic and international clients in complex investigations and subsequent legal proceedings. Her practice spans a broad range of litigation matters, including commercial and corporate disputes —with a particular focus on intricate intra-company conflicts and post-M&A disputes—, administrative and enforcement lawsuits, white-collar criminal proceedings, as well as execution and bankruptcy proceedings.

We congratulate our new partners on their well-deserved success and are confident that their leadership and continued dedication will bring even greater strength to our team.

On 3 June 2025, Melis Öget Koç participated as a panelist at the Practising Law Institute's "Doing Business in and with Global Markets 2025" program. She contributed to the session "Doing Business in and with the Middle East", providing her perspectives on legislative and regulatory developments and foreign investment opportunities in Turkey.

On 15 May 2025, Dr. Umut Kolcuoğlu participated as a panelist at the IBA Law Firm Management Committee's conference, Building the Law Firm of the Future, held in Warsaw. He contributed to the session Strategies to Combat Margin Squeeze, sharing his insights on key approaches to navigating margin pressures in the legal industry.

We are pleased to announce that two deals our Firm has worked on have been awarded with the prestigious CEE Legal Matters Deal of the Year 2024 awards for Turkey - Petrol Ofisi's acquisition of British Petroleum's downstream business - and Albania - AYEN AS Energji's EUR 110 million syndicated loan. We extend our gratitude to our dedicated teams for their exceptional work and contributions to these significant deals.
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