The Istanbul office represents a further strengthening of Clifford Chance's position as one of the world's leading international law firms.

The new Istanbul office also underlines Clifford Chance's commitment to the fast growing economy in Turkey and the wider South East European region, providing strategic and commercial legal advice to international and national clients, on a wide range of cross-border and domestic transactions, including in infrastructure, energy, finance, M&A and capital markets.

Clifford Chance's Istanbul office will operate in conjunction with affiliated firm Yegin Legal Consultancy (YLC).

Istanbul office shows Clifford Chance's commitment to Turkey

As an attractive growth market, Turkey presents a unique array of opportunities and challenges for Turkish and international corporations, including banks and financial institutions, private equity, energy and infrastructure companies.

The new office in Istanbul will enable clients to use the combined legal expertise of Clifford Chance in Turkey and the commercially-focused insights of its global network of lawyers to understand the current and emerging legal issues in Turkey's fast-growing industries.

The Istanbul office is the start of a new phase in Clifford Chance's 30-year involvement in Turkey, reinforcing the firm's proven track-record of helping clients to succeed in matters including:

• Mergers & acquisitions
• Privatisations
• Real estate investments
• Capital markets issuances
• Project and acquisition financings
• Energy and infrastructure
• Disputes

In the last five years, Clifford Chance has been involved in nearly every major Turkish infrastructure and energy project that has been internationally financed.