Practice Areas

We provide process management and legal advisory services to international companies and funds, to venture capital companies and to small and medium-sized enterprises in their merger and acquisition projects. Throughout merger and acquisition processes we support our clients, with a team holding specialist and technical expertise in the field, in the preparation of letters of intent and the determination of contractual terms; legal review and reporting (due diligence); negotiation and process management; permits from administrative bodies and institutions; and the closing stages of merger and acquisition transactions.

Services such as the organisation of general assembly meetings, capital increases and reductions, transactions relating to shares and bonds, amendments to the articles of association and the drafting of the articles of association, the preparation of shareholders’ agreements and the management of the related process, and legal due diligence reporting are provided to our clients by our legal team.

We have extensive arbitration experience at both domestic and international level. Our team has acted in arbitration proceedings concerning numerous technically and commercially complex projects, including construction and infrastructure projects, energy investments, foreign capital disputes, mergers and acquisitions, disputes relating to GSM licences, natural gas storage facilities and SCADA systems. We represent our clients in both ad hoc and institutional arbitration proceedings with a strategic and results-oriented approach.

We provide legal services in relation to advice on the operation, structure and organisation of banks and finance and credit institutions; leasing and credit agreements; corporate finance; asset and project finance; international trade finance; the investment and enforcement of securities interests; Islamic finance law; corporate financing; capital markets and public offering transactions; and the establishment of finance companies and crowdfunding companies together with the management of the related licensing processes.

Our experienced lawyers provide advisory services on collective labour agreements; the termination of contracts and dismissals; occupational accidents and occupational diseases; bringing working environments into conformity with the legislation in force, particularly as regards health and safety; the drafting of employment contracts and their updating in line with the practice of the Court of Cassation; the preparation of incident records, requests for written defence, warnings and notices of termination; and obligations arising under the Labour Act, the Social Insurance Act and the Unemployment Insurance Act.

The dynamic and continuously changing structure of the Turkish capital markets calls for a deep knowledge of, and experience in, the provisions of the legislation and the practice of the regulatory authorities. Our lawyers ensure that our clients are prepared for the obligations arising under capital markets legislation, guide them through the processes of complying with those obligations and strengthen their capacity to adapt to regulatory change. Through the legal advisory services we provide, we minimise the legal risks our clients may encounter in complex capital markets transactions.

Start-ups are dynamic, rapidly growing businesses shaped by innovative ideas and an entrepreneurial spirit. Alongside these dynamic processes, however, legal compliance and risk management are of considerable importance. We offer comprehensive support in relation to the legal difficulties entrepreneurs may encounter from the very first stage. From the outset, we aim to secure the safety and the success of your business by managing your legal processes correctly.

We provide services in the field of contract law in order to strengthen domestic and international business relationships, to deliver preventive legal services and to protect the rights and interests of our clients. We offer professional support in the drafting of legal instruments such as franchise and distributorship agreements, carriage contracts and works contracts, as well as of contracts described as “sui generis” that carry distinctive and innovative content, in bringing them into line with the legislation, and in contract negotiation and management.

The searching, registration, protection and assignment of trade marks, patents, industrial designs and utility models at national and international level, copyright matters, advisory services concerning intellectual property rights in mergers and acquisitions, the preparation of licence agreements and licensing transactions are all provided by our experienced lawyers.

With our specialist team we offer legal services and solutions in relation to all forms of licence application and amendment in the energy market, the obtaining of permits from the Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK) and the relevant institutions and the management of those processes, the establishment of energy companies and bringing them to the operational stage, the preparation of due diligence reports, share transfers, royalty agreements, concession agreements, drilling and rehabilitation agreements, production sharing agreements, licence transfer agreements and licence agreements.

We provide legal advisory services to our client companies operating domestically and internationally, and to individuals, on the legal means of resolving disputes arising under the trade regimes applicable at international level; on the identification of problems arising under customs duty legislation and the resolution of disputes by administrative application or through litigation; and, in disputes falling within the scope of the Customs Act No. 4458 and the Anti-Smuggling Act No. 5607, on the conduct and management of administrative applications, settlement, investigation and litigation processes.

We provide legal support to public institutions and organisations and to companies through legal advisory services in areas such as enforcement and bankruptcy proceedings for the collection of receivables, debt settlement negotiations between the debtor and the creditor and the recording of the settlements reached in protocols, postponement of bankruptcy, and the resolution of disputes arising from banks’ credit agreements.

We provide services for the making, conduct and conclusion of residence permit and residence permit extension applications; the making, conduct and conclusion of work permit and work permit extension applications; the making, conduct and conclusion of citizenship applications; and the making, conduct and conclusion of applications for exemption from the value added tax that foreign nationals are required to pay on the purchase of real property in Türkiye.

Our team provides comprehensive legal advisory services across every area of the real estate sector, extending to project development, zoning and planning and permitting processes. We provide legal support, principally to international retail brands as well as to real estate investment funds and construction companies, in connection with Türkiye’s leading shopping centre, residential, urban transformation, port and tourism projects.

Representation and litigation services are provided to insurance and insurance intermediary companies, in line with their interests, in all disputes arising from or connected with personal accident or traffic accident insurance policies, including recourse claims against third parties.