Founded in 1998 Daruma is the leading and independent Corporate Finance company specializing in Debt / Equity Financing services for the first 500 companies in Turkey. Now with a team of 35 Daruma also supports upper and middle market corporates in private and public market transactions in Turkey, the Balkans & Central Asia.

Daruma is the leading Debt and Equity Finance Structuring and Arranging Corporate Finance Company in Turkey in terms of volume and transaction numbers as well as number of professionals specializing only in Corporate Finance. Daruma has branch and liaison offices in Istanbul, Sofia and Bucharest.

Daruma is committed to be the leading Corporate Finance House in the region offering debt and equity products to its clients by assisting its clients to utilize to the full the financial markets, through a professional, ethical and disciplined approach to business. Working with a dedicated client base and its wide network throughout the world, Daruma undertakes exclusive financial advisory assignments that are designed to meet its clients’ specific requirements. Daruma regards its clients as its most valued asset. From SMEs to top 500 companies, Daruma has established client relationships aimed to be long-lasting and loyal.

Daruma is committed to be the leading Corporate Finance House in the region with its highly professional, experienced, dedicated management, team members, and its high ethical standards.

Daruma has a proven track record for debt and equity finance transactions. Since its establishment, Daruma has completed aggregate funding exceeding Euro 2 billion in different industries and countries.

Daruma's objective is to introduce new, value added and sophisticated financial products to Balkan, Central Asian and Turkish companies to provide the tools to grow their businesses. Daruma is motivated and driven by the difficulties and challenges presented by creating financing in emerging markets.

Daruma's efforts are driven exclusively by its clients' needs, including exploring all appropriate sources and combinations of debt and equity raising. Working with a client base in Balkans, and Central Asian Region and a wide network throughout the world, Daruma undertakes financial advisory assignments that are designed to meet clients' specific requirements.

Deal Flow
With its business development team and its lending abilities through exclusively partnering banks around the world, Daruma has a substantial deal flow, and is able to follow all quality deals and projects in the market. Daruma has a wide coverage of the market granting it access to most important transactions in the Balkans, Central Asian and Turkish market. Working with a large client base and as a result of the large number of transactions, Daruma is able to create a matrix of transactions yielding a very dynamic solution base thanks to heavy exposure to variety of clients, industry, and financial products.

Differentiation
Daruma is consistently able to meet its clients' objectives with the talent and expertise of its team members. Each of its team members has 5-15 years of experience in different segments of international financial markets, marketing, engineering, consulting, and auditing. Through this variety of backgrounds, Daruma's professionals bring a diverse, yet complementary set of skills to provide corporate finance solutions. All members of the team have exposure to financial markets in different areas. These attributes coupled with Daruma's focused, ethical and disciplined marketing approach, have created for Daruma a high level of credibility vis a vis its clients.

Network
Daruma has close ties and established relationships with a network of financial institutions and is in constant cooperation with banks and financial institutions in credit markets; investment banks and specialized financial institutions in capital markets, private equity houses, government agencies; and large corporations from OECD members, for potential equity transactions.