Gün + Partners

Intellectual PropertyAnti-CounterfeitingBusiness Crimes and Anti-CorruptionTrademarks and DesignsCopyrights

Partner

Barış Kalaycı joined the firm in 1997 and has been a Partner since 2010. He is co-chair of the firm’s intellectual property and business crime and anti-corruption practices.

His Intellectual Property practice focuses on trademarks, designs and copyrights. He has been involved in numerous anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy campaigns and civil litigation cases mostly with preliminary injunction requests involving all aspects of IP rights. He also has a special focus on customs IP protection against counterfeit goods being exported, imported and in transit.

Baris also leads the firm’s in-house investigations department which supports the investigative needs of all the firm’s clients and practice groups, especially in anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy matters.

Barış also leads the teams in major business crimes and anti-corruption cases as well as some high profile commercial litigation.

English, Turkish

Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI)Anti-Counterfeiting Group (ACG)International Trademark Association (INTA), Parallel Import CommitteeEthics & Reputation Society (TEID)Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA)Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group (PTMG)Patent and Trademark Attorneys’ Association of Turkey (PEM)Transparency International TurkeyIstanbul Bar Association

Istanbul University, Faculty of Law, Istanbul, (LL.M. 2019) Middlesex University, UK (DPSI Diploma, 2000) Ankara University, Faculty of Law, Ankara (LL.B. 1997)