Our History

The 2024–2025 term of the ÜNLÜ & Co Women Technology Entrepreneurs Academy, organized in collaboration with ÜNLÜ & Co and the Entrepreneurship Foundation, has been completed. The Academy’s graduates received a total of USD 1.2 million in investments from investors.

ÜNLÜ & Co, acting as the sell-side financial advisor, supported the signing of the agreement for the sale of Getir Araç to TikTak.

Piapiri, ÜNLÜ & Co’s in-house venture, was renewed to bring together transactions from Borsa İstanbul and U.S. stock exchanges on a single platform.

UNLU Securities UK Limited (UNLU Securities) expanded its scope in the UK by adding retail investment advisory services to its existing offerings.

Piapiri completed its internal entrepreneurship process and became an independent financial technology company.

ÜNLÜ Portföy Yönetimi A.Ş.’s (ÜNLÜ Portföy) total assets under management increased by 104% to reach TL 10.8 billion.

İstanbul Varlık Yönetim A.Ş. (İstanbul Varlık) reached TL 1.3 billion in total assets and TL 5.3 billion in principal under management.

ÜNLÜ Menkul Değerler (ÜNLÜ Menkul) successfully completed the ebebek IPO, in which it acted as the lead coordinator.

ÜNLÜ & Co launched the Women Technology Entrepreneurs Academy in collaboration with the Entrepreneurship Foundation (GİRVAK).

İstanbul Varlık reached TL 500 million in total assets.

ÜNLÜ & Co introduced its new fintech venture, Piapiri, to investors.

ÜNLÜ & Co successfully completed the IPO of Hitit Bilgisayar Hizmetleri as the consortium leader.

Under ÜNLÜ Menkul’s market-making, Goldman Sachs issued 168 new warrants structured on 21 underlying assets.

ÜNLÜ Teknoloji ve Yazılım Hizmetleri A.Ş. was established.

Following its IPO, ÜNLÜ & Co shares began trading on Borsa İstanbul.

ÜNLÜ Menkul became the market maker for the equity-based warrants to be issued by Goldman Sachs International on Borsa İstanbul.

İstanbul Varlık reached 500,000 customers.

ÜNLÜ & Co, operating as UNLU Securities in London with FCA approval, began providing debt financing advisory services and connecting global funds with Turkish companies.

ÜNLÜ & Co acted as joint global coordinator in the USD 538 million IPO of ŞOK Marketler, one of Türkiye’s largest IPOs of the past decade.

ÜNLÜ & Co intermediated Türkiye’s first convertible bond issuance.

ÜNLÜ & Co carried out Türkiye’s first asset-backed security (ABS) issuance based on agricultural receivables.

With DAHA, ÜNLÜ & Co extended its financial advisory expertise to qualified individual investors.

UTrade was launched to serve investors seeking to trade in domestic and international capital markets.

The ÜNLÜ The Club YouTube channel went live.

ÜNLÜ Portföy’s First Real Estate Investment Fund invested TL 45 million in Tahincioğlu’s Nidapark Küçükyalı project, developed with Emlak Konut GYO’s assurance.

İstanbul Varlık’s principal under management reached TL 2 billion.

The Wellcome Trust, one of the world’s largest foundations, acquired a 9.9% stake in ÜNLÜ & Co.

As the only Turkish brokerage operating in the United States, UNLU Securities Inc. began its activities in New York.

The ÜNLÜ & Co Women Entrepreneurs Academy was launched in collaboration with Endeavor Association and the Entrepreneurship Foundation to help women-led ventures build sustainable business models.

The partnership with Standard Bank was restructured.

ÜNLÜ Finansal Yatırımlar A.Ş., integrating its group companies under one structure, adopted the brand name ÜNLÜ Yatırım Holding A.Ş. (ÜNLÜ & Co).

The Individual Brokerage and Financial Advisory Unit was established under ÜNLÜ & Co.

ÜNLÜ & Co launched its Singapore office.

With a transaction volume of USD 3.7 billion in M&A deals, ÜNLÜ & Co became the market leader and also advised the largest foreign acquisition in Türkiye that year.

In debt capital markets, ÜNLÜ & Co completed Türkiye’s largest private sector bond issuance with a transaction volume of TL 805 million and a 24% market share, ending 2014 as the top-ranked brokerage house.

Advisory services began for the ÜNLÜ Long-Term Investment Fund, investing in diversified asset classes.

ÜNLÜ Portföy grew by 474.8%, becoming the fastest-growing portfolio management company of 2014.

With ÜNLÜ Finansal Yatırımlar A.Ş. acquiring a 67% stake in Standard Ünlü, the firm underwent restructuring.

İstanbul Varlık continued to lead the sector with USD 80 million in investments and more than 200,000 customers.

Standard Varlık Yönetim A.Ş. (Standard Varlık) was acquired from Standard Bank and renamed İstanbul Varlık.

212 Capital Partners was established to provide venture capital to technology, internet, and communications companies in their early stages.

Standard Varlık was founded to invest in retail, SME, and corporate NPL portfolios.

DU Private Equity was founded, marking the start of advisory services in alternative investments.

Under the NPL Unit, DUFDAS, an industry-leading corporate collections company, began operations.

ÜNLÜ & Co intermediated the first private sector bond issuance in Türkiye in a decade (2007).

South Africa–based Standard Bank acquired majority stakes from Alasdair Dundas and Tahincioğlu Holding, becoming a strategic partner. The group’s name changed to Standard Ünlü.

ÜNLÜ Portföy Yönetimi A.Ş. was established.

A strategic partnership was formed with U.S.-based investment bank Lehman Brothers.

Tahincioğlu Holding became a shareholder of the group.

The Institutional Equity Sales Unit began operations to offer services in equity and capital markets.

Dundas Ünlü began offering asset management services; the Non-Performing Loans (NPL) Unit was established.

The Fixed Income (2003) and Fund Management (2004) units were launched, alongside the establishment of the DUA equity fund and the DUB fixed-income fund (2004).

Acquiring local brokerage Işıklar Menkul, Dundas Ünlü expanded into new areas of investment services and commenced capital markets activities.

Dundas Ünlü was established in Istanbul as an independent company providing mergers and acquisitions advisory services.