Ayşe Yüksel Mahfoud

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Ayşe Yüksel Mahfoud is the Global Head of Corporate, M&A and Securities, as well as a member of the firm's Global Executive Committee and Partner-in-Charge of the Istanbul office.

Ayşe, who works in both New York and Istanbul, has extensive experience in a range of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, privatizations, joint ventures, strategic alliances, capital markets and SPAC transactions. She also advises on corporate governance issues. Ayşe provides counsel to companies, private equity funds, sovereign wealth and other investment funds, as well as financial institutions in cross-border transactions in the telecommunications, media, technology, consumer markets, energy, renewable energy and infrastructure sectors.

Ayşe led Norton Rose Fulbright's first Global M&A Trends and Risks 2023 report in collaboration with Mergermarket, which provides clients with a global outlook of the current M&A landscape through a comparative regional and sectoral lens.

Ayşe was awarded the Women, Influence and Power in Law Awards of the Corporate Counsel 2023 for Thought Leadership.

Ayşe was named in the 2022 New York Metro Super Lawyers list of Thomson Reuters in the Business/Corporate category. Ayşe was in the Crain's New York Business 2022 list of Notable Diverse Leaders in Law, and a "Notable Women in Law," by Crain's New York Business in 2019. Ayşe was also named a "Woman of Influence," by the New York Business Journal in 2018. Ayşe has been consistently recognized by Chambers Global and Europe as a leading lawyer in Türkiye in Corporate/M&A and has been consistently ranked in Bank 1 / the Spotlight Table as a leading corporate lawyer. She has been consistently ranked as highly-regarded and a leading expert in Corporate/M&A by the IFLR1000. Ayşe was selected to the Global 50 Turkish Women Leaders 2022 list by the Capital economy magazine. She was the only leader on the list from the legal industry. In Legal 500 2023, she was referred by a client for being: "an excellent lawyer and a global leader. She knows the Turkish market as well as the US and UK markets. She is capable of understanding the client's needs and is very strategically innovative."