New York, NY—Dentons announced that Ata Dinlenç has joined its Corporate practice as a partner. He joins the firm from Baker & McKenzie, where he was a partner.
Dinlenç's practice encompasses sophisticated transactions in energy project development, acquisitions, financings and workouts. He focuses on representing developers, investors and financial institutions in domestic and cross-border debt and equity financings and restructurings involving energy, natural resources and other assets. Dinlenç also structures and negotiates contracts related to construction, fuel supply, and power sales arrangements.
Dinlenç was recognized in 2012 by Legal 500 for his work representing a foreign wind energy company investing in a wind project in Texas.
"Ata brings to Dentons an impressive record of transactional work in the energy sector," said Walter Van Dorn, chair of Dentons' New York Corporate practice. "His addition bolsters our already strong corporate capabilities and reinforces Dentons position as the leading worldwide provider of energy-related legal services."
With the largest global Energy practice, Dentons represents the world's most significant energy companies in all aspects of their business and in all major energy producing, refining, transport and utilization markets. Dinlenç's addition complements Dentons' growing energy presence in New York, which includes prominent energy and infrastructure lawyers Andrew Schifrin and Michael Barz. Schifrin joined the Firm's Energy Practice in New York as a partner in August 2013. In September 2013, Dentons opened an office in Houston, the capital of American energy, to serve more than 400 existing clients in that city.
"I look forward to leveraging Dentons' global energy platform on behalf of clients with legal needs in all of the world's major energy hubs," said Dinlenç of his move to Dentons.
Dinlenç also has broad experience in financings and acquisitions of professional sports franchises, and has worked on such matters with Jim Rossiter, who joined Dentons' Toronto office as a partner from Baker & McKenzie earlier this month. Rossiter and Dinlenç's work on the prepackaged reorganization and sale of the Dallas Stars Hockey Club was awarded "2012 Chapter 11 Reorganization Deal of the Year (Middle Markets)" by Turnaround Atlas.
Dinlenç earned his JD at Fordham University School of Law and his BA from Johns Hopkins University. In 2009, he received the "Pro Bono Recognition Award" from Legal Services of New York City for his analysis of impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 on the organization and its clients.
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