GSI Meridian is a firm that has a focus on energy work, a specialisation that has served it well in recent times as this sector has gone from strength to strength. The team has also grown rapidly over the past 12 months with no fewer than seven new faces added at both associate and senior counsellor level in the finance practice and the emerging corporate practice hiring six associates and making up to partner Lale Deliveli, who was previously a senior associate at White & Case....
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GSI Meridian is a firm that has a focus on energy work, a specialisation that has served it well in recent times as this sector has gone from strength to strength. The team has also grown rapidly over the past 12 months with no fewer than seven new faces added at both associate and senior counsellor level in the finance practice and the emerging corporate practice hiring six associates and making up to partner Lale Deliveli, who was previously a senior associate at White & Case.
A deal that represents the ability of the project finance team at GSI well is its advising of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (Socar). A team consisting of Ali Goksu, Hasan Okur and Serhat Veyisoglu is advising Socar on its affiliate Socar Turcas Refinery's (STRAS) project to build a new refinery in the Izmir province of Turkey. The team also advised another affiliate of Socar, Petkim, on a related project to develop the port for the refinery.
The corporate team has also established itself quickly. A team comprised of Ali Gosku, Lale Deliveli and Engin Ozdegirmenci advised the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality on the ongoing privatisation of IGDAS, a major natural gas distribution company.
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