Sezekkaplan Lawyers

Sezekkaplan Lawyers is a specialized law office in Turkey in the field of intellectual property and unfair competition, representing the world’s giants on a global scale.

Since 2000, Sezekkaplan Lawyers has been the juridical defender of the IP rights of the global corporate companies in Turkey and maintains the protection of the rights and investments of clients via preventive practices.

Within this frame, we represent the corporations of industrialized countries like USA, Canada, Japan, Korea, China and EU countries. Moreover, we cooperate with the worldwide recognized artists to preserve their intellectual rights.

Areas of practice
Intellectual property: Sezekkaplan Lawyers offers consultancy services to ensure that the investments/values of its clients are secured for the protection and enforcement of all the intellectual property rights, including marks, designs, patents, and copyrights.

Sezekkaplan Lawyers has specialty in unfair competition, counterfeit and derivative legal disputes occurring in the infringement of intellectual rights.

Dispute resolution and litigation: In addition to preventive protection, Sezekkaplan Lawyers ensures protection also in the legal monitoring processes. The firm has a serious and well-established business practice in trademark, copyright, design and patent disputes.

The firm represents its clients in a solution-oriented way in mediation and negotiations, meetings and relevant processes by preserving the interests of its clients which are recognized on a global scale. Another broad area of expertise is litigation, the firm represents its clients competently in complex lawsuits.

Competition and regulations: Sezekkaplan Lawyers represent clients in all processes in relation to the Turkish Competition Authority and provides all-round legal consultancy and litigation services within the Turkish Competition Law, especially on competition-restricting agreements, claims and defenses on the abuse of dominant position, notifications of mergers and acquisitions.

Sezekkaplan Lawyers provides its clients with consultancy on the legal restrictions to secure their activities in Turkey, avoid and overcome any possible obstacles and advise companies to generate business strategies.

Corporate and M&A: The corporate practice of Sezekkaplan Lawyers ensures and covers high quality consultancy services to the global companies in various sectors.

The firm has offered services to the remarkable and significant M&A projects in recent years thanks to the efficiency of the digital world and rapid dynamics of the sector, and this successfully performed acquisitions have made a name for themselves both in Turkish and worldwide agenda.

Key clients

• Facebook Inc
• Instagram LLC
• Monster Energy Company
• Energy Beverages LLC
• DTTM Operations LLC
• Swatch Group
• H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB
• Oracle International Corporation
• Believe SAS
• Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Getty Images (US) Inc
• Energizer Brands LLC
• Cameron Mackintosh Limited
• Istockphoto LP
• Cloudera Inc
• Uster Technologies AG
• TE Connectivity Services GmbH
• Coopervision International Holding Company