NSN Law Firm

The firm: NSN Law Firm was set up in 2000 by senior partners Nedret Ünlü, Sevilay Kuru and Nazlı Selek, who were mainly active in commercial, maritime and transportation litigation. In 2010, senior partner Selma Ünlü (responsible for IP and life sciences) joined the firm with her team. Since then, NSN Law Firm has become one of the largest law firms in Turkey, consisting of fourteen partners, a counsel and 38 associates.

NSN Law Firm is a well-established eminent full service law firm offering a comprehensive range of services to our clients of utmost quality, with the core strength being commercial, corporate, intellectual and industrial property, life sciences, advertising, media and entertainment, regulatory, maritime, insurance, transport, IT, telecommunications and technology law.

Located in Istanbul, NSN is also in cooperation with associate offices in İzmir, Antalya and Ankara allowing us to provide legal services throughout Turkey. Additionally, our firm enjoys long-standing relationships with law offices worldwide, enabling us to assist our clients in handling international disputes in different jurisdictions.

We always act in accordance with our core values for providing our services competently, efficiently and creatively with an international business-mind. These values are the foundation and the driving force of our success. We take pride in always aiming for the highest standards to ensure a consistently excellent service for our clients.

NSN Law Firm also conducts pro bono work. Our firm established NSN Academy which provides training to law students or junior lawyers in the area of IP law. We also have a collaboration with Beykent University Law Faculty where we regularly provide training lessons for students with respect to practice of IP Law.

Areas of practice
Transportation, maritime and admiralty: NSN Law Firm is one of the leading firms in handling all kinds of transportation issues, whether domestic or international in scope. The firm has experience resolving major causality claims, cargo claims, salvage and towage disputes, as well as yachting, shipbuilding and personal injury claims.

Commercial and corporate: We provide our clients with comprehensive legal advice and support on daily corporate secretarial work, company establishment procedures, share transfers, asset transfers, mergers and acquisitions, and sale and purchase transactions. NSN Law Firm is able to provide legal services diversifying from counseling clients on highly regulated sectors to dispute resolution. The team also has special expertise in counseling clients in covering commercial and corporate law formalities, drafting complex corporate agreements, preparation of corporate documents and representing them before administrative and judicial authorities.

Intellectual property: NSN Law Firm is a leading IP firm in Turkey, covering trademark, copyright and patent protection. The firm provides an all-in-one IP service, from investigation and registration to litigation and enforcement. One of the main distinctions among other IP firms is that our firm does not only provide legal services limited to trademark law; our firm is actively counselling in all areas of IP as well as other IP related law matters. Our firm’s IP department consists of three practice groups namely; copyright practice group; trademark and design practice group; and patent and life sciences practice group. We are also assisting clients in regulatory matters in which we have extensive experience.

Advertisement, media and entertainment: The firm provides services for advertising agencies, national telecommunication network operators, television and radio broadcasters, social network operators, online retailers, film and television producers, consumer electronics manufacturers, computer games companies and intermediary firms. NSN Law Firm represents clients holding 40% of the ticketing and box office incomes from entertainment and media business in Turkey, and houses a strong copyright enforcement team. We also represent our clients in resolving their disputes either with private sector parties or with respect to the decision taken by governmental authorities.

Life sciences: NSN Law Firm advises a number of multinational life sciences companies and prestigious associations on a wide range of matters, including licensing agreements, pricing, regulations, reimbursement regulations, marketing authorization procedures, clinical trial and observational study projects, and promotion practices. With our qualified life sciences practice group, we are following the sector very closely so that we are capable of providing a comprehensive strategy in considering legal aspects of the matter as well for our clients.

Information technologies: NSN Law Firm gives legal support to its clients in domain name disputes, data protection, online gaming and gambling, computer software, social networks and online retailers, the team has a wide range of experience in IT Law including drafting software contracts, corporate legal policies and standard operating policies for IT companies.

Employment and labor: Our firm works closely with the human resources departments of our clients and delivers clear, practical and results-oriented legal advice on all aspects of employment and labor law including, but not limited to, the legal compliance issues, contract drafting, preparation and implementation of workplace regulations, management and follow-up of work permit processes for the foreign personnel, organization and restructuring of employment standards for eliminating deficiencies and avoiding misconduct during employment practices.

Dispute resolution: NSN Law Firm’s strong litigation team works across all practice areas, and its expertise is accredited by both national and international clients. The firm is actively involved in litigation, arbitration and mediation on shipping, transport and aviation corporate and commercial, employment and labor issues, as well as the enforcement of foreign arbitration awards and IP litigation.