Tuna Çolgar
Biography
Tuna Çolgar is a Partner and Head of Corporate Department and M&A Department of Erdem & Erdem. He has deep experience in a variety of corporate matters including national and multijurisdictional complex merger and acquisitions, investments, joint ventures and share transfer transactions.
Furthermore, he focuses on corporate structuring including M&A, International Commercial Contracts, the spin offs, option rights and group company managements. He also specializes in cross-border strategic business transactions project finance, structured finance, acquisition finance, privatizations and private equity investments.
He is a key figure in advising and coordinating all aspects of energy projects including drafting and negotiating EPC and its supplementary contracts. Including FIDIC and ICC contracts, he provides advice on the drafting of a variety of national and international contracts. In numerous projects in Turkey and abroad, he represented both domestic and foreign clients. He is also experienced in advising, drafting and negotiating agency and distribution contracts and cross-border representation agreements.
He is the leader of our Gulf Countries Desk. He especially advises companies active in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf which are Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in their transactions such as forming franchise, distribution and agency relationships between the investors from Turkey and Gulf countries. He helps the clients to establish legally safe structure in the territory.
He has been selected as a Notable Practioner on Mergers & Acquisitions by IFLR 1000 since 2020.
Service Areas
Representative Matters
- Advising a port company in the acquisition of seven container port terminals in Portugal, two terminals in Spain and one in Peru, that the transaction is the largest investment made by a Turkish company in Portugal as well as one of the biggest port investments in Europe in 2016 (Euro 330 mio).
- He was the project leader in 100% share transfer of a domestic port company (USD 220 mio).
- He was the key adviser in acquisition of a port company in Sweden by an administrative tender procedure (USD 100 mio).
- He is the project leader in cross-border asset purchase project for a glass production company.
- He is the key adviser in cross-border asset purchase project for the acquisition of a coal mining company. (USD 100 mio)
- He is the project leader in cross-border thermal energy project which includes drafting and negotiating of EPC contract and Operation and Maintenance contracts of a thermal electricity production plant (approx. USD 2 billion)
- Advising one of the biggest glass companies in Turkey for their agency, distributor and representative appointment projects outside Turkey including Europe, Africa, Americas, UEA. Drafting and negotiating agency and distribution contracts for the client.
- He is the project leader in cross-border private placement project in Turkey (expected to be over USD 500 mio).
- He is the key adviser in cross-border joint venture project for construction of a plant regarding the production of raw material for glass production.
Education
Istanbul Bilgi University – Law of Economy, LL.M
Istanbul Bilgi University Law Faculty
