Fırat Gülüm

Associate
About
Fırat Gülüm advises on corporate law matters including mergers and acquisitions, venture capital transactions, corporate reorganisations and restructurings in various sectors. In his practice, Fırat performs such tasks as due diligence, legal research and analysis, drafting various transaction documents and coordinating multi-jurisdictional complex projects.
Areas of FocusCorporate

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising the founders of Vochi, a video creation and editing app, on its acquisition by Pinterest;
  • Advising BMT Private Equity on the acquisition of BelkaCar, a Russian carsharing service;
  •  Advising FinTech Collective, a US venture capital firm, on its USD1m investment in WheeKeep, Saudi-Arabian self-storage company;
  • Advising WeWork in its divestment from the Russian market by sale of its 100% subsidiary;
  • Advising Uzum, an e-commerce startup and Uzbekistan's first unicorn, on USD114m Series A funding round;
  • Advising Osome, a finance admin platform for founders and small and medium businesses, on USD17m Series B funding round;
  • Advising a Russian carsharing service on equity and debt financing from a Russian private investor;
  • Advising a British multi-national financial technology company on the restructuring of its subsidiaries in various European and Asian jurisdictions.
Languages
  • English
  • Russian
  • Turkish
Education
  • Higher School of Economics, Master's Degree in Private International Law and International Commercial Arbitration, with honours, 2022
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University, Bachelor's Degree in Jurisprudence, with honours, 2020