Emerging Europe: Turkish M&A on the rise

Boosted by a rich run of privatizations, the Turkish M&A market burst into life last year, hitting the highest total value of deals for close to a decade. The hope for 2015 is that the same feat can be repeated. In an election year, anything is possible.

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Erdem Basci has cut interest rates to ease the pressure on the Turkish lira

Goldman Sachs doesn’t move into countries very often, so when it does it’s a sure bet the investment bank sees a lucrative opportunity.

Its newest global office in Istanbul – the 26-floor Tekfen Tower in the Levent financial district – opened in early January, ahead of what could be yet another bumper year for privatizations and mergers and acquisitions in the country.

Some $28 billion of privatizations and private-sector M&A transactions were completed in Turkey last year – the highest total value of deals since 2005 when $38 billion of deals were struck.

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