A cross-border team of lawyers from Esin Attorney Partnership, a member firm of Baker & McKenzie International, and Baker & McKenzie's London office advised Ingram Micro Inc., a Fortune 500 company, on its acquisition of shares in Armada Bilgisayar Sistemleri San. ve Tic. A.S., a leading Turkish IT company.

The Firm advised Ingram Micro Inc. on Aptec Holdings Limited's (an Ingram Micro entity) acquisition of shares representing approximately 58 percent of the share capital of Armada Bilgisayar Sistemleri San. ve Tic. A.S. (Armada Computer Systems) from private shareholders. The deal was signed on 15 October 2014 and closed on 1 December 2014.

The team was led by M&A Partner Muhsin Keskin (Istanbul) together with Compliance Partner Birturk Aydin (Istanbul), Compliance Partner Sunny Mann (London) and Corporate/M&A Partner Gordon Low (London).

"The IT sector in Turkey is rapidly expanding, with spending expected to grow faster than the global average. Ingram Micro's acquisition of Armada is part of this growing trend, and we can expect to see more strategic M&As in Turkey's IT sector in the future. We are looking forward to advising Ingram Micro on the mandatory tender offer to be launched in relation to Armada's remaining shares," commented M&A partner Muhsin Keskin.

The team also included Associates Caner Elmas and Sertac Kokenek (Istanbul) and Maria Boccardo, Tracey Akerman and Raoul Parekh (London).

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Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Istanbul, Armada Computer Systems distributes IT products and offers IT solutions to more than 6,000 IT companies in Turkey. Armada distributes computers, servers, storage, virtualization, security, mobile and OEM products from leading vendors such as Intel, Dell, Lenovo, VMWare, HP Network, Tyco, Enterasys, Motorola, Zebra and Panasonic. Armada went public in 2006 and has an annual turnover of USD 282 million as of 2013.