Sengün & Partners Attorney Partnership

The firm: Şengün & Partners Attorney Partnership was founded by Nedim Korhan Şengün, Attorney at Law, in the city of Istanbul in 1990. Being a full-service law firm, Şengün & Partners provides high quality legal services  to its clients pursuant to its experience and knowledge it has gained due to the work it has carried out in various fields of law since its foundation.

While providing legal consultancy and advocacy services, Şengün & Partners aims to provide holistic legal support by presenting solutions to the most basic and specialized needs of clients. Şengün Attorney Partnership currently offers legal consultancy and advocacy services in a wide range of areas to many local and foreign clients with its offices in Istanbul, Izmir, London and Vienna working together with its strong solution partners both throughout the country and abroad, with an aim to carefully provide suitable legal solutions to its clients.

Areas of practice
Commercial and corporate consultancy: Şengün & Partners provides legal assistance to its clients in various commercial and business matters starting from the incorporation of a company, such as in performance of the daily legal transactions and actions which companies experience on daily basis, including carrying out of general assembly procedures, adopting of board of directors and shareholders assembly resolutions, carrying out of share transfers and conclusion of commercial agreements, and finally, company liquidation procedures, when necessary. Şengün & Partners acts with the principle of, “opening the way for trade” while providing its legal services in the field of commercial law to its clients in the most current and practical manner by following innovations and new practices brought by the changing commercial life.

Mergers and acquisitions: Şengün & Partners handles merger, acquisition and joint venture projects with experienced lawyers who act on the principles of time management and confidentiality. An experienced team of lawyers who provide support in many projects on labor law, lawsuits, intellectual property rights, environment law, real estate law, corporate law, IT and tax, carried out many projects on this field through all its stages. In this scope, our firm provides consultancy services on the sales and transfer of public and private company M&A, demergers, partial acquisition and transfer of a company or asset. Our team has provided services for large media and entertainment companies, construction companies, food and beverage supplier companies and transportation companies as the selling party and as the purchasing party in large acquisitions encompassing large international companies from an array of industries.

Foreign investment law: Şengün & Partners provides legal assistance to all transactions made in Turkey by foreign SMEs and large enterprises ready to invest in Turkey. Our law firm offers consultancy services to foreign investors, with its many years of experiences in business and transaction in the Turkish market, while taking part in many projects starting from the negotiating table in order to help foreign investors to invest in accordance to Turkish rules and regulations.

Collective and individual labor law: Şengün & Partners, within the scope of Labor Law, provides legal support on labor contracts, management contracts, non-compete agreements, drafting documents on workplace rules and on social security law. Şengün & Partners also provides legal support on collective labor agreements and if needed on the negotiations of these agreements. Our law firm has special knowledge and experience in collective labor law, representing unions and negotiations on collective labor agreements and their conclusion.

Banking, finance and capital markets: Şengün & Partners provides legal consultancy services to local and foreign public companies or those regulated under special banking, finance and capital market legislation in their daily business and transactions as well as in the matters of restructuring procedures.

Media and entertainment: Şengün & Partners provides legal consultancy services in television, radio, licensing, broadcasting (land, digital, cable and satellite), programming, sponsorship and advertisements. In this scope, our law firm offers services in protection of broadcasting rights of the media service providers against the administrative authorities, and their compliance with the administrative regulations. Our law firm represents the media service providers before Turkish Radio and Television Supreme Council, Information and Communication Technologies Authority and other public institutions and assists in the settlement of their legal disputes. It offers preventive and compensatory legal services to the media service providers in their legal problems arising in relation to the advertisement board and consumer law.

Dispute resolution: Şengün & Partners provides advocacy and consultancy services pursuant to its experience throughout the years in the settlement of any kind of legal issues that local and international companies from different sectors face in their daily business life. Our lawyers who are experienced in litigation submit case files as well as pleas against filed cases to court all prepared in line with the their determined defense strategies, and ensure the follow-up of the case files at the courts of first instance as well as judicial authorities and courts of higher instances. Due to their experience and knowledge, our lawyers also develop solution-oriented solutions for the settlements of legal disputes without having to resort to judicial authorities. Many of our lawyers at Şengün & Partners have represented their clients in many arbitration cases with great success, and also represented their clients in national and international arbitration practices, institutional arbitration and ad hoc.