Hansu Law Office

About us: HANSU Attorney Partnership is a full-service law firm providing high-quality legal services to Turkish and international clients at main offices in Istanbul and London. Our firm has also collaboration with leading firms in all major Turkish cities such as Ankara and Izmir.

With a dedicated team of experts including multilingual lawyers who also have vast work experience in different countries, our law firm provides comprehensive consultancy and legal services to foreign investors and international operating companies in all kinds of business activities in Turkey. HANSU Attorney Partnership is well known for its commercial and sectorial approach. We represent a wide range of local and international clients from all major business sectors including construction and real estate, tourism and hospitality, transportation and logistics, chemicals and petroleum, energy and mining, healthcare and medicine, e-commerce and digital retail, food and agriculture, media and entertainment as well as education and arts. Moreover, we offer legal assistance to municipalities, public banks and insurance companies.

Our team of qualified legal experts develops and implements solutions for the most complex and sophisticated legal issues that our clients encounter in their local business activities as well as cross-border transactions around the globe. HANSU Attorney Partnership handles all kinds of corporate, commercial and regulatory issues as well as personal wealth matters, including corporate law/M&A, construction and real estate law, international investment law, project development, banking and finance law, transportation and logistics law, energy and mining law, tax law, economic criminal law and employment law as well as IP/IT matters and any further legal issues related to business transactions within Turkey.

Principal areas of work
Corporate law: HANSU Attorney Partnership provides comprehensive legal advice on a wide range of corporate issues including the incorporation of companies, branches and representative offices, preparation of articles of association and shareholders agreement, share transfer procedures, due diligence reports, joint ventures, organizing annual general meetings and shareholders’ meetings, corporate finance, corporate governance as well as complex cross-border M&A transactions with particular focus on tax-related structuring. Besides, we can provide our clients the most beneficial solutions in accordance with local tax regulations. Our dedicated team of experts has also sectorial expertise in all kinds of competition matters that our clients face. In that context, we represent our clients before all public authorities including the Capital Markets Board and the Competition Authority.

Our employment law specialists also provide comprehensive regulatory counseling and compliance ranging from advising on corporate restructuring measures and drafting employment contracts to the legal representation of companies in mediation and litigation matters.

Furthermore, HANSU Attorney Partnership offers effective local and international debt recovery services tailored to the needs of each individual client. We provide pragmatic legal advice on all aspects of debt collection including pre-legal collection, dispute resolution and enforcement proceedings.

• • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Competition
  • Employment
  • Social security
  • Debt collection
  • Anti-business crimes and anti-corruption

Commercial law: HANSU Attorney Partnership aims at combining strong technical expertise with commercial insight and provides legal advice on the entire lifecycle of commercial and business law contracts, including review and assessment of all provisions of agreements and general terms and conditions, negotiation as well as assistance in signing procedures.

Our firm also offers tailor-made and pragmatic legal assistance to all participants of the supply chain such as logistics service providers, freight forwarders, warehousing companies, air freight companies, ship-owners and airlines as well as shipping companies in all legal aspects of the transportation and logistics sector.

Our experienced team advises our local and international clients on all areas of banking and financial markets law. We cover the full spectrum of financing work for our banking and finance clients including acquisition finance for corporate transactions, real estate project finance, asset finance and restructuring.

Our team of expert lawyers has also wide practical knowledge and experience in representing the largest insurance company in Turkey in different type of disputes.

HANSU Attorney Partnership also offers comprehensive private wealth services for a range of Turkish and international families, business owners, entrepreneurs and family businesses and have vast experience in providing creative, individual solutions to our client’s needs and priorities.

• • Commercial contracts
  • Transportation and logistics
  • Unfair competition
  • Banking and finance
  • Insurance and reinsurance
  • Compliance and investigations
  • Private client

Construction and real estate law: HANSU Attorney Partnership provides comprehensive legal services to private and public businesses, international investors and construction companies on all aspects of real estate projects such as commercial and residential properties, hotels, shopping malls, energy power plants, universities, museums and hospitals from planning to post-completion operational issues. With our sectorial approach, we can provide excellent legal advice on all aspects of the planning, construction, finance, leasing and acquisition of real estate projects, drafting all necessary agreements as well as real estate management and litigation.

• • Real estate purchase and sale agreement
  • Commercial real estate projects
  • Construction agreement in return for land share and revenue share
  • Lease agreements and eviction
  • Inheritance
  • Title deed transactions
  • Property ownership

Tax law: HANSU Attorney Partnership provides comprehensive legal advice to Turkish and international clients in all areas of tax law, including planning, tax inspection, compliance issues as well as legal representation before public authorities and tax courts. We are one of the leading law firms dealing with the largest number of tax law related disputes in Turkey and have achieved to gain precedent decisions in legal disputes before Turkish courts. Our extensive tax experience enables us to assist our clients in all corporate, finance, real estate and M&A transactions and to offer them commercial and pragmatic solutions in Turkey and all around the world.

• • Tax inspections
  • Tax compromises
  • Tax disputes
  • Foreign trade and customs
  • Anti-money laundering investigations
  • Tax penalty disputes

Intellectual and industrial property law: HANSU Attorney Patnership provides excellent legal advice on all aspects of intellectual and industrial property rights including preliminary surveys for the registration of trademarks, patents, utility models and industrial designs, national and international application before the competent public authorities, opposition and litigation strategies as well as IP due diligences.

Our specialist expertise includes international IP protection and portfolio management. We also provide comprehensive legal advice on commercial transactions relating to the acquisition and development of innovative products and services. Our team of qualified legal experts develops and implements pragmatic solutions for the protection of your business against counterfeiting and piracy. Besides, we advise on all aspects of copyright, trademark, design and patent licensing as well as all kinds of IP Law related contracts including technology transfer agreements, franchise and distributorship agreements.

• • Trademark and design
  • Patent and utility model
  • Registration of trademark, patent, design and utility model
  • Protection of literary and artistic works and copyrights
  • Anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy

IT and E-commerce law: HANSU Attorney Partnership provides a full range of e-commerce law services to assist our local and international clients to comply with internet, consumer and data protection regulations. We advise on the planning and implementation of complex IT and e-commerce projects, drafting of e-commerce agreements and distance contracts and preparation of licensing models, website and e-commerce compliance as well as data protection.

Our team of experts also offers comprehensive legal services to all participants of the game and e-sports sector including the establishment of companies in the digital game market, preparation of infrastructure for eGaming and eSports activities, development and operation of digital platforms and games, drafting franchise agreements, sponsorship agreements, purchase and licensing of software as well as trademark and employment law matters.

We also provide excellent legal advice on all aspects of press and media law ranging from legal procedures against insulting, slandering and defamatory publications and removal of the respective content to the respective applications before public authorities if any damage is caused to our client. Furthermore, we represent our clients before public authorities such as the Information and Communication Technologies Authority, the Radio and Television Supreme Council and Turkish Radio and Television Corporation.

• • Electronical commerce
  • Distance contracts
  • Data protection
  • Press and media
  • eSports
  • eGames

Public law: HANSU Attorney Partnership has a wide range of experience in advising on the public procurements, processes of purchasing goods and services by municipalities and other public authorities, procurement notices as well as agreements between public and private sector.

We also provide comprehensive legal services to our local and international clients in all aspects of privatization and expropriation issues and represent them before the Public Procurement Authority decisions, the Capital Markets Board of Turkey, the Energy Market Regulatory Authority and the Competition Authority. Additionally, our firm has in depth expertise in the establishment of organized industrial zones, free zones, industrial zones, technological zones and energy zones.

Besides, our team of dedicated lawyers provides extensive legal advice on the establishment of energy power plants, the participation into energy tenders, license applications such as refinery, processing, mineral oil, storage, transmission and distributor licenses, compliance and regulatory matters as well as drafting all kinds of energy and mining agreements. In that context, we represent our clients before the Energy Market Regulatory Authority, the General Directorate of Mining Affairs and the General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration.

• • Public tenders
  • Zoning and planning
  • Expropriation
  • Urban transformation
  • Protection cultural and natural heritage
  • Energy, mining and infrastructure
  • Healthcare and life sciences

Dispute resolution: HANSU Attorney Partnership represents individual and commercial clients in a wide range of complex local and cross-border disputes. With their vast knowledge in all major business sectors, our team of dedicated lawyers provides tailor-made solutions for our clients and advises them on all on all forms of dispute resolution including litigation, arbitration and mediation as well as settlement negotiations. We also represent our clients before local and arbitral institutions (ICC, DIS, ISTAC) and in ad hoc arbitration matters. HANSU Attorney Partnership is a member of Istanbul Arbitration Centre (ISTAC). Besides, our law firm also aims to prevent disputes by providing clients with pragmatic legal advice that focuses on their strategic and commercial objectives, and, therefore, advises our clients on all compliance issues.

• • Compliance
  • Administrative applications
  • Litigation
  • Mediation
  • National and international arbitration
  • Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards