Press Releases
2019 Investment Outlook – A focus on the Middle East
04 February 2019
Senior AssociateDubai
Email ahmet.kalafat@hoganlovells.com
Phone +971 4 3779322
Fax +971 4 377 9378
LanguagesEnglish, Turkish
Practice groupCorporate & Finance
Ahmet is renowned for timely, proactive and clear guidance on legal, commercial and reputational risks resulting in high client satisfaction. He has 15+ years of banking & finance experience in Dubai, Istanbul and Jeddah. Before moving to Dubai, he worked in the legal department of the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and at an international law firm in Istanbul, Turkey.
He has substantial experience in both conventional and Islamic finance transactions and is very well regarded as a banking and finance lawyer. His experience extends to most areas of conventional and Islamic finance products and structures ranging from general corporate lending, bonds and Sukuk issuances and treasury products to trade, projects, margin facilities, pre-ipo financings, ECA, real estate and acquisition and leverage finance.
He regularly advises large GCC and multinational banks, private equity houses and governments, their related entities (GREs) and sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) on complex domestic and cross-border finance transactions.
One of his other strengths is the Turkish market where he has developed a strong conventional banking and Islamic finance practice with established relationships with local Turkish banks and corporates.
In addition to Turkey, he regularly works on transactions covering a broader region including Africa, GCC, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Brunei and Singapore.
Ahmet completed his Graduate Diploma in Law at BPP Law School, London and his Legal Practice Course at The Oxford Institute of Legal Practice. He holds a Turkish law degree from Ankara University, Faculty of Law.
He is an English and Turkish qualified lawyer and is fluent in English and Turkish.
Banking and finance: Corporate finance (including islamic lending), UAE, Recommended
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Capital Markets, UAE, Recommended
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Banking and finance: Corporate finance (including islamic lending), UAE, Next Generation Partner
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Islamic Finance, Next Generation
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Banking and Finance
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Islamic Finance
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Education
Legal Practice Course (Distinction), Oxford Brookes University, Distinction, 2011
Graduate Diploma in Law, BPP Law School, Merit, 2009
LL.M Business Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, Merit, 2001
LL.B., Ankara University, Faculty of Law, Distinction, 1999
Memberships
Istanbul Bar Association, Turkey - Attorney-at-law
Bar admissions and qualifications
Solicitor, England and Wales
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