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acquired 100% of

2010
Advisor to the Buyer

Ickale Enerji is the owner of 163MW Kemah Hydroelectric Power Plant (HEPP) project. Situated in Erzincan province with a total investment budget of €300 million, Kemah HEPP will generate 572 million kWh of electricity per annum.

Akenerji, a joint venture between Turkish Akenerji and Czech CEZ, has 1 wind, 1 hydro and 3 natural gas fired operational power plants with a total installed capacity of 454MW. Targeting to reach a total installed power of 3,000MW in 5 years, Akenerji has ongoing investments which comprise of HEPPs with 292MW total installed power and a 900MW natural gas fired power plant. Akenerji also owns SEDAS, regional electricity distributor supplying 8.6 billion kWh of electricity to its 1.2 million subscribers.

Akenerji acquired 100% of İçkale.


raised project finance from

€47.3 million

2010
Advisor to the Company

Akres is a wind farm project with a capacity of 45 MW based on 18 units Nordex N90 2.5MW turbines. Its expected annual energy generation is 138 million kWh.

Akres is owned by Karesi Enerji, which is a Yırcalı Group company. Yırcalı Group is a reputable Turkish group, which has operations in transformer manufacturing, electricity generation, animal feed production and synthetic weaving.

Commerzbank provided €47.3 million project financing with 16.5 years term through a Hermes covered facility.


acquired 46% of 

2009
Advisor to the Seller

Taftel is a leading contemporary tafting carpet manufacturer in Türkiye deploying in-house developed automated hand-tufting technology. The company has annual production capacity of 216,000 sqm. The Company is the major and exclusive supplier of Step Carpet.

Swicorp Private Equity is a leading private equity firm with a specific regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Since 2005, Swicorp raised nearly US$1.4 billion in private equity funds from Middle East based investors.

Swicorp acquired 46% of Taftel Carpet.