Nazmiye Gökçebay advises domestic, international and multinational clients, both public and private, on the U.S. federal income tax aspects of a wide variety of transactions, including domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures and restructurings.
Gökçebay has extensive experience counseling on capital markets transactions, complex financial instruments, derivatives and securitizations, including whole-business securitizations. She also represents domestic and international asset managers in connection with onshore and offshore fund formations as well as sovereign wealth funds, pension plans and other institutional investors with respect to their investments in private funds and managed accounts.
Lawdragon Honors
| Honor | Year | Practice |
|---|---|---|
| The Inaugural Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Tax Lawyers | 2025 | M&A, Tax Transactional, Cross Border |
Representative experience in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures includes:
- a consortium that included BNY Mellon, Citi, Clearstream, Computershare, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, JPMorgan and State Street in connection with its investment in Citigroup’s spinoff of its electronic proxy voting platform, Proximity
- Endo Health Solutions Inc. in its $1.6 billion acquisition of Canadian pharmaceutical company Paladin Labs Inc., its $2.9 billion acquisition of American Medical Systems Holdings Inc. and its $1.2 billion acquisition of Qualitest Pharmaceuticals Inc.
- L’Occitane International S.A. (Luxembourg) in its $900 million acquisition of Elemis Ltd. (United Kingdom) from Steiner Leisure Limited (Bahamas)
- Google in various private acquisition transactions
Representative experience in fund formation and investment includes:
- Arrow Global Group PLC (United Kingdom) in the establishment of its new fund management business and the successful launch of its new pan-European NPL Fund, Arrow Credit Opportunities SCSp, with initial commitments of €838 million
- BlackRock, Inc. in connection with the organization of several investment funds within its Direct Lending Strategy platform, with a strong focus on tax-driven structures in the Cayman Islands, Ireland and Luxembourg for both commingled funds and managed accounts
Representative experience in capital markets includes:
- CEMEX, S.A.B. DE C.V., a global building materials company based in Mexico, in its $1 billion Rule 144A offering of green subordinated notes
- Stevanato Group S.p.A. in its $693 million initial public offering of ordinary shares and listing on the New York Stock Exchange. This was the first-ever Italian company that listed its ordinary shares rather than American depositary receipts on a U.S. stock exchange
Representative experience in structured finance includes:
- Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. (Bermuda) in its first-of- its-kind private asset-backed securitization of a portfolio of 376 distributed generation commercial and industrial solar assets
- Chase Bank USA, National Association as sponsor of Chase Issuance Trust (CHAIT 2011-A2) in the public issuance of $500 million of credit card asset-backed notes