Turkey

ESENYEL & PARTNERS is Türkiye’s leading law firm based in Istanbul, with correspondent lawyers and offices all over the world. As a law firm aiming to grow steadily, we owe our success to the fast, practical and quality service we offer to our clients. Our highly experienced lawyers bring a hands-on approach to law practices and provide both legal and technical assistance through their dedication to understanding the specific industries of the clients represented. We combine the highest ethical and professional standards with the firm’s depth and ability of understanding of the law to offer better and more innovative solutions. Our solution-oriented approach combines excellence in legal support with commercial awareness, and consultants advise the world’s leading companies on a wide range of legal areas.

Göksu Safi Isik Attorney Partnership provides legal services in a wide range of areas. The firm advises both national and international companies doing business in Turkey and the region.

Founded in 1912 and managed by the 4th generation, DERIS has established a boutique IP company providing services in all areas of intellectual property, on the strong foundation laid a century ago. Today, DERIS is one of the largest IP firms in Turkey and is internationally recognized among the top-tier legal service providers which plays a leading role in the development of IP landscape in Turkey.

Mavioglu & Alkan Law Office (ADMD), established in 2004 and headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey, is a distinguished full-service law firm that has swiftly risen to prominence through its analytical, diligent, meticulous, and dynamic approach to legal consultancy and litigation services.

Aktay Law Firm is a full-service law firm established in Istanbul, providing legal consulting to domestic and international clients by successfully blending business insight with legal expertise. The firm is recognized by leading international law firms around the world, actively contribute legal articles to international publishers, and participate in the seminars and panels in its areas of expertise. The firm is led by Faruk Aktay, LLM, who is a stellar lawyer licensed to practice law in Istanbul, London, and New York. During his career, he has been involved in domestic and cross-border M&A, project finance, and capital markets transactions, provided legal advice in various corporate and commercial matters and represented individual clients in a wide range of personal matters. His education in law and economics at graduate level and understanding of different legal regimes allows him to bring unparalleled insight and novel perspective to complicated legal matters. His commitment to excellence and dedication to deliver the best will assure you of receiving sound, tailor-made legal solutions meeting the highest professional standards. Practice areas: The firm provides legal services in a wide range of practice areas. In every legal transaction, the team works carefully to recognize client’s objectives, iron out the best possible legal structures, and help them establish and maintain positive and productive relationships with business partners and counterparts. The firm also represents clients in a broad range of commercial disputes as well as personal matters. Commercial and business: We provide legal assistance to our clients in a wide range of commercial contracts and business arrangements. We carefully understand your commercial interests and goals in a deal and work closely with you while drafting, commenting on, and negotiating commercial contracts. Our business-savvy lawyers are highly experienced in dealing with all types of agreements for domestic and international purposes. Our reasoned and calculated approach will allow you to establish and maintain positive and productive relationships with your business partners and counterparts. Our areas of expertise include preparing standard terms of business, international trade and sale-purchase agreements, agency, distribution, franchise agreements, all sorts of procurement, and outsourcing arrangements. Corporate and M&A: The firm offers tailor-made transactional advisory services in relation to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, partnerships and strategic alliances, private equity, and venture capital investments. The firm advised foreign and Turkish clients on national and cross-border mergers acquisitions, public and private takeovers, leveraged buy-outs and asset transfers.  While drafting of share purchase agreements (SPAs) and shareholder agreements (SHAs), we harmonize special contractual provisions with Turkish law specific requirements. Especially in regulated industries, where complex legal rules and regulations may be raised as legal obstacles, our negotiations with regulatory bodies and government officers always stand out as a difference-maker. Banking and finance: Our general banking practice includes regular banking advice, particularly assisting our clients in negotiating term sheets, drafting and negotiating facility and security agreements, providing legal opinions in relation to financing arrangements. In the field of project finance, we offer comprehensive legal advice to borrowers and local and international banks and financial institutions in relation to project finance transactions on a non-recourse or limited recourse basis. We are experienced in broad range of industries including energy, mining, transport, infrastructure, manufacturing, and services. We have advised our clients in various build operate transfer (BOTs) and public/private partnerships (PPPs) projects and provided legal advice in relation to the EPC, O&M, and several other types of procurement and outsourcing contracts. Intellectual Property: Our firm is committed to providing the best quality of service in the field of trademarks, designs, patents, copyrights, trade secrets and domain names. We represent our clients in national and/or international registration and opposition proceedings, before the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office and WIPO. We provide consultancy to domestic and international companies in the textile, cosmetics, fashion, media, automotive, automotive, pharmaceuticals, food, software, electronics, especially e-commerce sectors on the protection and management of their intellectual property portfolios and supports them in the acquisition of intellectual property to expand these portfolios. We have experience in assisting IP infringement, unfair competition, invalidation, and cancellation of intellectual property rights. We assist clients in the handling of investigations, raids and seizures, and customs proceedings. Litigation and dispute resolution: Our philosophy is always to explore what is right for you and start with a thorough analysis of the matter in hand. Where possible we do our best to avoid costly and time-consuming litigation processes and find a way to cooperate with the other party and benefit from the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms. Where the opponent is hostile, we carefully design a road map with our clients, highlight the weaknesses and strengths of the dispute, where necessary we take all precautionary measures like preliminary injunctions and always prepare state-of-art court papers. During the trial process, our clients always feel the ease of working with the firm’s exceptional lawyers. Competition and regulation: Competition and regulation is a highly dynamic field and the applicable rules and legal and economic reasoning behind the decisions of government authorities are in constant change. The team has a solid grasp of regulatory rules in a broad range of regulated sectors including banking, energy, mining, transport, manufacturing, and services. Thanks to our deep-diving knowledge in the field and thorough understanding of the economic and legal explanations, we will come up with the most creative and convincing arguments for the highly important merger and acquisitions notifications, exemption filings, and investigations launched under Article 4 and 6 of the Competition Law. To best assist clients, our competition and regulation team draws on the resources of world leading law firms and economic consulting firms, actively participates in international conferences, and regularly publishes scholarly articles, news, and updates about the developments in Turkey.

Akkaş & Partners Law Firm’s Practice Areas are as follows:

Şengüler & Şengüler is recognised as a leading Turkish law firm. We specialise in advising international businesses with a presence in Turkey or the region. Our aim is to deliver clear and simple legal advice in a friendly and responsible way. We have a strong team of around 20 fee earners, with a strong diversity of age and gender. The current firm has been in business since 2004.

We are distinguished by our commercial and corporate law practice. Our commercial and corporate law team provides legal services to leading local and international firms on large and complex commercial transactions including but not limited to company formation, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, advising on commercial activities of corporations, corporate restructuring and drafting commercial contracts.

We have a highly qualified energy law team which consists of legal experts that have worked at the Turkish Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK) and academics with global reach and strong presence in Turkish energy law practice. We advise international investors, energy companies, and governmental agencies on all aspects of complex energy matters relating to the full range of energy sectors, including, but not limited to electricity, gas, oil and LPG markets and renewables as well as nuclear.

Bezen & Partners has a well-established reputation for assisting clients to resolve disputes across a broad range of industries. With extensive experience in litigation, arbitration and other forms of dispute resolution, the firm is dedicated to providing clients with efficient, practical, and tailored solutions.

Commercial, corporate and M&A is the largest practice at ADMD. We offer a wide range services including negotiating, drafting commercial and trading contracts, structuring of distribution systems, regulations on manufacturing and sale of products. ADMD offers a unique protective approach. We analyse commercial or other considerations of parties involved in broad detail in order to foresee any possible issues, gaps or omission in clear definitions causing future disputes. Our members refrain from ‘over-lawyering’ in contract drafting and negotiations and our experience in contract litigation gave us the insight to evaluate even the most negligible issues very carefully.

LBF Partners provides full legal and consultancy services to its foreign and domestic clients both in Turkey and at international level. We represent high-profile local and international companies as well as individuals in litigation with their sophisticated cases.

Real estate and construction is one of the most esteemed practices at ADMD and we offer a wide range of services.

Banking, finance and capital markets is one of our core practice areas. On the banking & finance side, we advise banks and other financial institutions, investors and governmental agencies in the field of banking and financial law. Our banking and finance team provides legal services for all financial transactions including, acquisition finance, term loans, syndicated loans, Islamic banking and finance, asset finance, structured finance, project finance, fintech, financial regulation, compliance and sanctions, financial restructuring and resolution, real estate finance.

Kesikli Law Firm, a leading law practice based in Istanbul, Turkey, serves a diverse client base, from global corporations to small, entrepreneurial companies and individuals in a range of transactional, litigious and regulatory matters.

Deris, since 1912, has been one-stop shop for IP services with one of the largest and internationally regarded IP litigation, prosecution and advisory team.The firm has been a pioneer in shaping the IP landscape by obtaining the precedent decisions and participating the preparation of the IP legislation upon the invitation of the legislative bodies. Deris provides a wide spectrum of high-quality services that are essential for securing, maintaining and enforcing IP rights.