Melike Akan Yüksel’s 18+ year practice mainly involves cross-border and local mergers and acquisitions, private equity and strategic investments, banking and structured finance, project finance, restructuring, energy, corporate and commercial law, technology related investments.

She acts for foreign and domestic investors, private equity funds, angel investors as well as Turkish selling shareholders and founders in connection with their transactions of different sectors and sizes. She also acts for various Turkish banks and borrowers, in a wide range of financings including syndications, structured financings and restructurings. She has a profound expertise in relation to technology related investments.

Melike Akan Yüksel is recognized as “Highly Regarded” by IFLR 1000, which is the guide to the world’s leading financial law firms, and “Recommended Lawyer” by Legal500, which is the clients guide to the best law firms.

Bars
Istanbul Bar Association, admitted 2005

Education
LL.M. University of Nottingham, Faculty of Law, 2006
LL.B İstanbul University, Faculty of Law, 2004 (graduated as the “Top Student”)

Languages
Turkish, English