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SEZİN OKKAN ÇALIŞKAN

Sezin Okkan Çalışkan is the founding partner of Caliskan Okkan Toker. She has a wide range of and notable expertise in capital markets and banking and finance transactions. Her practice area includes on-shore and off-shore based public offerings, bond and other capital market instruments issuance, licenses and operation permissions, compliance and structural requirements, cross boarder capital markets products and services, derivatives, investment funds, financial markets requirements and payment systems. She has a well-earned reputation in financial sector mergers or acquisitions where she has acted as the representative of foreign financial institutions for their incorporation, opening and/or acquisition of Turkish banks, other financial institutions and representative offices as well as transfer of certain business to another financial institution. She also regularly advises financial institutions on regulatory compliance matters and regulatory filings with the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency and the Capital Markets Board. Additionally, she has been acting in various finance transactions covering financing agreements and financial restructuring. · Caliskan Okkan Toker

TurkeyCapital Markets, Banking & FinanceTurkish, English

About

Founding partner of Caliskan Okkan Toker with notable expertise in capital markets and banking & finance, including public offerings, bond and capital market instrument issuances, derivatives, investment funds, payment systems and regulatory compliance. Regularly represents foreign financial institutions in incorporations, openings and acquisitions of Turkish banks and other financial institutions, advises on regulatory filings with the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency and the Capital Markets Board, and acts in financing and financial restructuring transactions.

Practice areas

Capital MarketsBanking & FinanceRegulatory ComplianceMergers & AcquisitionsCorporate / M&AInvestment Funds

Office

Expertise

Public OfferingsCross-Border Capital MarketsFinancial InstitutionsPayment SystemsDerivativesInvestment Funds

Education

  • University of Pennsylvania Law School (LL.M), 2002
  • Istanbul University Law School (LL.B), 1999

Admissions

  • Istanbul Bar Association, admitted 2000

Languages

TurkishEnglish