About

Kurt & Partners provides a full range of legal consultancy and advocacy services in new sectors with a new generation approach as well as traditional needs for individuals and institutions.

We blend legal expertise and business focus with an international outlook. This approach allows us to analyze our clients' needs in a timely and correct manner and also allows us to effectively provide innovative, practical, legal solutions for these needs.

At the heart of our philosophy lies a client-focused approach, wherein our firm prioritizes the needs, goals, and culture of our clients above all else. This entails fostering effective communication, maintaining responsiveness, and demonstrating an unwavering commitment to securing the optimal outcome for our clients.

We have adopted a principle of providing our services in accordance with international standards, by working to establish and maintain a healthy and operative legal infrastructure with legal consultancy services to be provided at every stage of the decision-making and implementation processes.

At Kurt & Partners, we are proud of providing our services in a people-oriented manner at all times in close cooperation with our team members, clients and solution partners.

Legal expertise and sectoral experience: Kurt & Partners has more than 20 years experience, providing services locally and globally for companies and all types of legal entities. During this period, it has been a law firm with long-term client relationships, operating effectively with its institutional and partnership structure.

Kurt & Partners works as a teammate providing support that goes beyond legal services, understanding its clients' corporate structure and culture very well, and adding strategic value in a timely manner.

According to internal statistical data, Kurt & Partners has provided services for more than 50 different sectors in the past three years including automotive, automotive spare parts, manufacturing companies in different fields, IT and technology, energy and natural resources, electrical supply, telecommunications, logistics, retail, e-commerce, real estate, construction, food and beverage, chemical, all type of services sector, NGOs etc.

Practice areas: Kurt & Partners has a large spectrum of legal practice areas, particularly commercial law, specialized contract services, and corporate law. It has also been providing services in areas such as labor law for companies with a large blue-collar workforce, M&A for their investments, and data protection etc.

•      Commercial Law and Contracts•      Corporate Governance
•      Corporate Law and M&A•      Legal Compliance & Corporate Structuring
•      Employment Law & Collective Bargaining Agrm.•      Intellectual Property Law
•      Dispute Resolution•      Competition Law
•      Energy and Natural Resources•      Procurement Law
•      Inheritance, and Real Estate Law•      Law of Persons and Family Law
•      IT and Telecommunication Law•      Citizenship and Work Permits
•      Personal Data Protection and Cyber Security•      Family Companies and Constitutions

Organization, size and structure
Size and office locations: Kurt & Partners have two offices in Turkey. Istanbul being the main office. The Ankara office is present there because of public institutions and administrations. Kurt & Partners also has a representative office in Vancouver, Canada. Kurt & Partners' team consists of 30 people including external lawyers and advisors.

Our firm’s size and lean organizational structure allows us to add value to our clients without wasting resources where we are engaged in is efficiency, quality and creating value.

Structure: Kurt & Partners has a proper and efficient partnership structure. Three equity partners and two salaried partners representing different areas of law. The establishment of an appropriate team for each case and client, along with the management of that team by a responsible lawyer under the supervision of a partner, is part of the process.

Team: The entire team consists of lawyers who have graduated from reputable law faculties, are fluent in at least one foreign language, and have specialized in specific areas also having expertise in fields such as information technology law, including computer engineers and cybersecurity experts.

International reach and recognition: Kurt & Partners offers legal consultancy and attorney services to clients in accordance with international standards and competencies.

Kurt & Partners has an extensive network, including international legal associations, networks, professional bodies, and law firms. This network is essential for client development, knowledge sharing, best practice, referrals and deal execution. This provides timely, comprehensive and international services for our clients.

Testimonials
With Özlem Kurt and her dynamic team, we have carried out work that will set a precedent not only for the automotive supply industry, but also for many other sectors as well.  Kurt & Partners team with its reliability, versatile and analytical services and meticulously designed innovative solutions for contemporary legal matters is definitely a very valuable and expert team to have by your side.
KANCA A.S. & TAYSAD / President

We abide by our core values; Courage, Trust, Collaboration, Innovation, Agility in all our interactions and work with partners that we can connect with through our values. Kurt&Partners is our very trusted legal partner who supports us in all our transactions with strong values and deep legal knowledge and smart solutions.
TEMPO / CEO

With the teamwork we have done and are doing with Kurt & Partners, we have increased the awareness of Data Protection Law in our company and provided compliance with legal requirements.
MANN+HUMMEL /  Managing Director

They have been an integral part of our projects, and we have come to rely on this law firm not only for contracts and litigation, but also for its lawyers’ strategic sense and ability to work with us on long term goals. They understand strategic matters beyond the strict legal issues.
SEGER / General Manager

“I’ve been gladly working with Özlem and Izzet for about 20 months. I can testify for Kurt & Partners in terms of their discipline, professionalism, hard work and know-how in selected domains of commercial law.
PTC / General Manager

Languages

  • English

Memberships

  • Interlegal Network
  • The International Bar Association (IBA)
  • IBA's organisation committee for European law firm management