We volunteer to guide our clients through all phases of their business.
We volunteer to guide our clients through all phases of their business.
Mergers & Acquisitions
M&A is one of core strengths and core practices that we offer with over twenty-years of experience. We represent both international and domestic clients, sellers, buyers, joint ventures, investors, private equities at all sectors including regulated ones and at all levels from entry into the market to expansion and exit and all procedures including due diligence, transaction, obtaining regulatory approvals and closing.
Dispute Resolution (Litigation and Arbitration)
Litigation
Our team has solid dispute resolution practice in litigation before Turkish courts, including commercial, civil, labor and administrative courts, in addition to the Court of Appeals and Council of State.
Over twenty years of experience before all levels of Turkish courts, our work includes complex commercial, civil, labor and administrative disputes in a variety of sectors, such as energy, chemicals, mining, construction, entertainment, IT.
Commercial and Investment Arbitration
Our team also has extensive experience in domestic and international arbitrations under a variety of institutional rules, including the ICC, ICSID, LCIA, ISTAC, where they represent domestic and international clients as counsel before the tribunals.
Enforcement and Execution Proceedings
We provide legal services in enforcement of foreign arbitral awards and court decisions in relation to business matters and execution proceedings for debt collection.
Corporate Law, Commercial Law and Contracts Law
Our corporate practice includes all types of corporate advice at all levels, such as establishment of companies, closure, restructuring, reorganization, corporate governance, regulatory compliance, shareholder relations and/or any type of necessity for the management of the companies. We support our clients at every stage of life span of a corporate entity.
Furthermore, we help our clients to actualize their commercial needs and requests by working on tailor made solutions to attain their commercial plans to come into effect. We work and negotiate all types of contracts including lease agreements, sale agreements, shareholders agreements, distribution, and license agreements and any other that a company/individual may need to operate effectively. We also provide strategic advises for the operation and the management to support the decision processes and the implementation.
Employment
Having started their career with employment related matters some twenty years ago, our team provide legal services for employment including both litigation for employment disputes of every kind and legal advice in relation to employment matters including negotiation, drafting and termination of employment contracts in addition to issues regarding labour union law and social security law.
Competition Law
We have a team with a long-term experience and broad knowledge on antitrust and competition matters. We assist our clients not only from a regulatory perspective but also from a practical point of view. Accordingly, we support them with strategic approaches and practical legal advice to help them to avoid any hidden risks and enable them to access their commercial targets with innovative structures and transaction planning.
We advise on reviewing and drafting agreements and documents including antitrust and competition law effects such as distribution, dealership, franchise, toll manufacturing agreements and any other, negotiating them and accompany our clients during the implementation of these agreements. We also work on merger control matters, on filing notifications and obtaining clearance for the mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures.
Along with our deep on knowledge compliance matters, we assist our clients for their regulatory obligations and counsel them on compliance matters, for pre-investigations, investigations, and litigation.
Banking, Finance and Capital Markets
We offer our services on banking and finance transactions including commercial and institutional lending, acquisition finance, project finance. We particularly provide our consultancy to clients, including banks and financial institutions for their mergers and acquisition transactions, capital market transactions and dispute resolutions.
We also advise on corporate governance practices, domestic compliance and regulatory obligations of public companies, requirements regarding mandatory tender offers, public disclosures, related party transactions and regulatory filings. Partners of our firm also have a long term and broad experience on initial public offerings and bond offerings.
Compliance and Investigations
We provide legal services in compliance for employment, competition and data protection matters. Accordingly, we advise multinational companies on achieving their policy in ethics and compliance in particularly regarding fair labour practices, human rights, anti-corruption, data protection and competition in Turkey. We can provide on-site visits and interviews in this regard and to follow up the required proceedings before government agencies for compliance matters.
Data Protection, Privacy and IT Law
Our practice mainly involves providing advice on data protection and privacy compliance with the regulation. Upon request we may support our clients with full range of services including due diligence on the compliance, issuing road map for the compliance, drafting policies, notices, consents, documents and amending the standard agreements accordingly and the implementation. We also advise on data processing, data transfer, deletion, anonymization, and destruction procedures.
From an IT law perspective, we help our clients on e-commerce matters, agreements, fintech solutions, license agreements and terms of use policies.
Real Estate
Our firm is dealing with any procedures before the land registries such as sale and purchase of a property, lease, register an encumbrance, mortgages or release. We also provide advice to foreigners for the acquisition of a real estate in Turkey, domestic and foreign clients on development projects, investment transactions and on litigation matters. Our services include providing advice, drafting agreements, documents, negotiations, following up the e-procedures and registrations.