CORPORATE & COMMERCIAL LAW – M&A
Our firm has extensive transaction experience and expertise in restructuring and reorganizations of companies as well as their daily corporate operations. Therefore, we provide legal consultancy services and legal assistance concerning long term strategic business planning and the day-to-day operations of our domestic and international clients operating in a variety of sectors.
We render our clients comprehensive legal advice and assistance relating to corporate transactions and restructuring matters to find the appropriate legal structure for their business goals, such as company establishment procedures (including branch offices and liaison offices), share and asset transfers, joint venture projects, intra-group reorganizations such as spin-offs, mergers, divestitures and liquidation. Within this context, our services cover pre-transaction restructuring, including legal due diligence review and reporting, negotiation and preparation of corporate agreements and relevant documentation, representation of clients before administrative authorities, as well as legal assistance upon incorporation and closing of mergers and acquisition transactions in terms of post-acquisition integration and post-divestiture reorganizations.
We also provide assistance and legal consultancy to our clients in their daily operations with respect to the corporate governance matters, including but not limited to drafting documentation and providing advice on board of directors’ liability, board meetings and convention of the general assembly meetings, representation of companies through signature circulars and power of attorneys, analyzing technical bankruptcy situations and managing capital increases or decreases from a dispute avoidance and a risk management perspective.
In order to provide creative and result-oriented legal solutions for the management of operational risks, we offer broad but focused legal assistance to our clients by combining our solid legal knowledge on Commercial and Corporate Law and accumulated experience in Labor Law.
COMPETITION & ANTI-TRUST
Our firm, besides its corporate compliance services, also provides advice and assistance in Competition & Anti-Trust Law on merger control filings, representation during cartel investigations, and advice on general competition law matters and helps clients to proactively mitigate or avoid the costly and disruptive consequences of an antitrust violation.
We represent clients before the Turkish Competition Authority in all aspects of competition law and provide counselling on anti-trust implications of their business transactions, including distribution, agency, marketing and sales agreements.
CONTRACTS LAW
Our firm has a well-established practice in drafting, reviewing and negotiating share transfer, asset purchase and/or shareholders agreements as well as ancillary contracts that may be required in transactions e.g. employment contracts, option contracts and pledge agreements and sui generis contracts tailor-made for each specific transaction.
On the other hand, as a wide range of contracts required to operate a business effectively in the local environment, our team will be able to draft and advise on a full range of agreements, including the following:
- License Agreements,
- Toll Manufacturing Agreements,
- Confidentiality Agreements,
- Distribution Agreements,
- Franchise Agreements
- Subscription Agreements,
- Advertising Agreements,
- Service Agreements,
- Facility Management Agreements,
- Rental Contracts,
- Construction Agreements.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – TECHNOLOGY
Our firm provides a full range of legal services in copyrights, trademarks, domain names, patents, industrial designs, trade secrets, confidentiality and passing off. We assist clients with both contentious and non-contentious aspects of intellectual property matters.
Our services also include negotiating and drafting various copyright agreements including commissioning of copyright work and licenses.
In addition to the above, we draft all types of agreements concerning intellectual and industrial property rights including license and assignment agreements and conduct due diligence review thereof. For the purposes of merchandising as well as ensuring efficient continuity and protection of rights related to a product.
In terms of Technology, we offer legal consultancy services to our domestic and international clients on a full and comprehensive range of areas of IT Law including domain name disputes, data protection, online gaming and gambling, computer software, social networks and e-commerce.
REAL ESTATE LAW
Our firm is focused on protecting the considerable investments of our international and domestic clients in real estate matters by a thorough understanding of the rigid and mandatory provisions of the Turkish real property law .
We advise and represent our clients in all proceedings and transactions that deal with real property and the structures attached to it; including acquisition clearances and permissions for foreigners and transfer of title rights in rem or in personam, purchase and sale, leases of residential and commercial properties, construction, mortgages, easements and facility management, as well as assisting our clients in drafting and negotiation of promise to sell, commercial lease and purchase agreements, allocations, sub-contractor, engineering and management contracts.
In addition, we are also advising on the administration of and investments concerning free trade zones and organized industrial zones.
EMPLOYMENT AND LABOR LAW
Our firm offers legal consultancy, dispute resolution and litigation services on a wide range of areas of Employment and Labor Law to our clients comprising of both individuals and legal entities.
We aim to deliver clear, practical and result-oriented legal advice on all aspects of Employment and Labor Law including but not limited to legal compliance issues; non-compete obligations and potential liabilities; contract drafting; preparation and implementation of workplace regulations, policies and disciplinary procedures; management, organization and restructuring of employment standards for eliminating deficiencies and avoiding misconduct during employment practices.
In addition to the consultancy services, our firm also handles all types of employment law related disputes in connection with labor law litigations before Turkish courts, e.g. re-employment lawsuits, termination compensation claims, liability for workplace accidents, severance premium and overtime payment claims.
PRODUCT LIABILITY AND CONSUMER LAW
We offer legal consultancy, dispute resolution and litigation services on a wide range of areas of Product Liability and Consumer Law to our domestic and international clients.
Our consultancy services mainly include drafting of all types of consumer, service, sale and purchase contracts and management of surrounding relations under applicable regulations. We advise clients in different sectors on their legal liabilities as well as guarantee and indemnification requirements arising out of defective goods and services, prospectuses and brochures, user and operator manuals, labelling, packaging and all types of advertisements.
In addition to the consultancy services, we also provide our clients, litigation and dispute resolution services on Product Liability and Consumer Law.
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Our firm aims to prepare tailor made strategies for each specific client and case, aiming to find the correct choice between negotiating a settlement and pursuing litigation. Where litigation is unavoidable, we are flexible in fees and prepare realistic cost assessments.
We provide strategic litigation advice and handle disputes arising from contracts, tort, fraud as well as shareholder disputes, mergers, procurement matters, product liability, consumer protection, employment, bankruptcy and insolvency.
We are addressing disputes mainly in the following areas:
- Commercial Disputes
- Shareholder Disputes
- Real estate and Construction
- Consumer Protection
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency
- Employment Disputes
- Intellectual Property
- Compliance and Data Protection