Restructuring and Insolvency

GKC Partners brings strength, knowledge and experience to Türkiye's most significant and complex insolvency and restructuring matters. Our restructuring and insolvency team understands that when a bankruptcy or consensual financial restructuring is looming, stakeholders need to work fast to preserve value, stabilize operations and stem their losses. For many years we have advised a diverse range of clients, including corporates, investors, financial institutions, creditors, debtors, directors and other stakeholders on all aspects of distressed business enterprise transactions.

GKC Partners has been involved in many groundbreaking debt restructurings, consistently delivering novel and efficient solutions for clients in large and complex cases, with many different types of international, local and supranational lenders and stakeholders involved. Our emphasis is on finding constructive, innovative and cost-efficient solutions. Major restructurings span nearly all legal disciplines, and our restructuring and insolvency team's broad experience in both debt and equity transactions and all types of financings supports and enable us to have an interdisciplinary approach. For example, we have represented creditor groups in some of the largest maritime restructurings in recent years, in each instance drawing on our team of worldwide restructuring professionals. We can act on behalf of debtors or creditors in negotiating agreements and repayment schedules We collaborate seamlessly with local and international colleagues, including professionals in mergers and acquisitions, tax and litigation, to deliver comprehensive solutions.

Beyond restructuring transactions, GKC Partners has played a key advisory role in shaping Türkiye's regulatory framework for financial restructurings, working alongside organizations such as the Banks Association of Türkiye and international financial institutions (IFIs).