A AKADEMİ MÜTALAA EXPERT OPINION & ADVISORY
AKADEMİ MÜTALAA · BABUŞCU & HAZAR

Turning complex disputes into defensible evidence.

LAW · FINANCE · STRATEGY

Independent expert opinions backed by an academic board for regulatory litigation, forensic econometrics, restructuring and valuation.

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Founding Partners & Senior Advisors

Composed of figures who have served at the summit of banking and academia, our board brings institutional experience and scientific rigor to every file.

Prof. Dr. Şenol Babuşcu

  • Ziraat Bankası (Former) Executive Vice President
  • Halkbank (Former) Board Member & Delegate
  • Başkent University Head of Int. Finance & Banking Dept.

Prof. Dr. Adalet Hazar

  • Ziraat Bankası (Former) Executive Vice President
  • Başkent University Dean of Commercial Sciences
  • Faculty Member

Academic, Legal & Science-Based Services

01

Regulatory & Administrative Litigation Opinions

We prepare authoritative expert opinions incorporating rigorous econometric modeling and legal-scientific defenses for annulment lawsuits against sanctions imposed by CMB, Competition Authority, BRSA, and regulatory bodies.

02

Forensic Econometrics & Legal Computing

We prepare scientific financial calculations and expert reports for submission to courts or arbitration panels regarding labor claims, credit receivables, assignment of claims, minority squeeze-outs and loss-of-profit assessments.

03

Financial Restructuring & Concordat Management

Elite advisory for restructuring corporate debts within the framework of Banking Law No. 5411 (Temp. Art. 32) and quantitative modeling of concordat projects, cash flow management, and strategic banking negotiations.

04

Forensic Valuation & Asset Appraisal

Bespoke asset appraisal and reporting of tangible assets, real estate, and intellectual property to serve as an empirical baseline for legal disputes, marital liquidations, or mergers under international standards.

Our Work

The cases below are anonymized under client consent and strict confidentiality. Parties, institutions, file numbers and figures have been removed; only the scientific methodology we applied and the findings we reached are shared.

FORENSIC VALUATION 01

Expert Opinion Against Court-Appointed Valuation Reports

THE DISPUTE

Within a partnership exit and receivables-assessment process; the claim that court-appointed expert reports on a company's real estate across several provinces overstated its assets, and therefore its capital, above their true level.

OUR SCIENTIFIC APPROACH

The reports were examined under the International Valuation Standards (IVS) and established Court of Cassation precedents. The most critical finding is that a double methodological error was committed: speculative “listing prices” were treated as genuine market data and then indexed with the CPI instead of the PPI signalled by precedent. It was further determined that goodwill, depreciation, expropriation and co-ownership/annotation effects had been applied arbitrarily or omitted.

OUTCOME

It was scientifically established that the values were systematically overstated, making the company's capital appear larger than it was and producing an outcome against the client.

REGULATORY LITIGATION 02

Econometric Opinion Against CMB Manipulation Allegations

THE DISPUTE

A CMB investigation alleging “organized manipulation” in a listed company's shares and a “financial link” between investors. The allegations rested mainly on descriptive statistics — placing trade counts, amounts and ratios side by side.

OUR SCIENTIFIC APPROACH

Rather than settling for descriptive indicators, multivariate econometric models and time-series analysis were applied. Using lagged regression, it was tested whether incoming cash significantly increased subsequent days' purchases; a statistically insignificant coefficient (high p-value) revealed the absence of any “financial link.” Through an “Others = Group − the individual” decomposition, it was shown that simultaneous trades may reflect rational responses to public information rather than coordination (Aggarwal & Wu, 2006; Bikhchandani & Sharma, 2000).

OUTCOME

It was scientifically shown that the “acting in concert” and “funding” allegations were not supported by the data in terms of timing and causality.

FORENSIC ECONOMETRICS 03

Excessive Risk & Compensation Liability in Fund Management

THE DISPUTE

The claim that an equity-intensive hedge fund offered to qualified investors took excessive, leveraged risk, failed to inform investors adequately, and caused them loss.

OUR SCIENTIFIC APPROACH

The fund's performance was analysed comparatively against peer funds and BIST indices; it was quantitatively established that the fund underperformed the market average in certain periods, that credit-interest expenses rose abnormally, and that leveraged positions were inconsistent with the fund's stated strategy. The custodian's duty to detect and report risk and reporting gaps in time, and the manager's transparency, care and loyalty duties under CMB rules, were assessed (Law No. 6362; Communiqué III-52.1).

OUTCOME

It was concluded that a direct or indirect causal link existed between the fund's strategic choices and reporting deficiencies and the investor's loss.

CONCORDAT ADVISORY 04

Opinion on the Financial Sustainability and Cash Flow of a Concordat Project

THE DISPUTE

A large-scale manufacturing- and trade-focused company that entered concordat proceedings due to financial distress; whether the debt-settlement project it submitted during the definitive moratorium phase was realistic and feasible was in dispute. Before creditor institutions and the court panel, claims and objections that the company's current profitability and operational cash-generation capacity would be insufficient to meet the deferred payment schedule of the concordat project.

OUTCOME

The analysis indicated that continued operations could improve creditor recovery compared with a bankruptcy scenario, and that the current profitability trend and cash-flow projections supported the revised payment plan; these findings were submitted for the court's assessment.

OUR SCIENTIFIC APPROACH

The company's historical and current performance, liquidity ratios and operating profitability were analysed using financial-econometric methods. Continued-operation and cessation scenarios were compared under the going-concern principle. Five-year cash-flow projections for the revised concordat plan were subjected to dynamic simulations and stress tests, and the capacity of operating cash flow to meet the payment schedule under different scenarios was reported with quantitative evidence.

* The case summaries above are illustrative and anonymized for confidentiality; they contain no real party, amount or file information.

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