Baysal & Demir

Baysal & Demir is an international law firm committed to excellence. The firm was founded by senior lawyers holding international academic titles with many years of experience. The firm was established to meet the increasing demand for dedicated specialist lawyers, which yield a result, particularly in complex legal issues. With its strong client relationship, the firm ensures its clients are at the heart of everything it does. By delivering what clients want from high-value strategic to everyday advice, Baysal & Demir prides itself on a high-quality and consistently excellent service.

The firm’s core areas of expertise are arbitration, litigation, insurance and reinsurance, corporate and commercial. It represents clients in numerous industry sectors with particular expertise in insurance and reinsurance, construction, technology, social media and aerospace industries. Baysal & Demir acts nationally and internationally for private individuals, corporate entities and state-owned entities. With flexibility in pricing, Baysal & Demir ensures that its clients receive value without waste.

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Our experience
Arbitration: We have represented private individuals, corporate entities and state-owned entities in international arbitrations, including many multimillion-dollar disputes involving novel questions. We have an ingrained understanding of all major arbitration rules and disputes handled under a wide range of applicable laws, including Turkish, Swiss and German law. We are familiar with the laws of many seats of arbitrations.

We combine our outstanding legal skills with in-depth industry knowledge and outstanding advocacy. Known for our cutting-edge work, we excel at solving unprecedented legal challenges, blending our local expertise with international experience. Our clients always benefit from a highly experienced and responsive team offering a thorough analysis of the facts and law.

Litigation: We have a remarkable track record in defending our clients’ best interest in cross-border and domestic disputes in a diverse range of industries, before commercial and administrative courts. Our lawyers are considered trusted legal advisers and have acted as legal experts on matters of Turkish law in various foreign court proceedings, including in the UK, US, France and Greece.

We also have significant experience in the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards and court decisions in Turkey. With a team consisting of lawyers with business savvy and able to offer strategic advice, we seamlessly handle even the most challenging cases for our clients. We achieve the best possible result for our clients by bringing our attention, deep industry knowledge and distinctive experience to each matter and tailoring them to the client’s objectives.

Insurance and reinsurance: We have been at the forefront of the vast majority of the most complex (re)insurance transactions, the highest-stakes disputes and the most challenging regulatory engagements in Turkey. We take pride in our ‘sharp and comprehensive analysis’ and ’the clarity of our advice’.
We are highly sought after by clients to handle insurance industry merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions, regulatory compliance issues, and the introduction of new products to the Turkish market. Our distinction comes from, inter alia, our ability to carry out the transactions from cover to cover along the path to perfection. We do not only seal the transactions, but also successfully protect the clients’ interests in post-acquisition disputes before state courts and in arbitration.

We have been consistently the first choice for policy coverage issues for all types of policies including Construction All Risk, Banker’s Blanket Bonds and Cash-in-Transit policies which are often ceded abroad through facultative and fronting arrangements. We have been involved in disputes concerning almost all of the largest construction projects and financial services in Turkey of the last decade and are renowned for our experience in executing claims control clauses.

Commercial: We produce contracts, adding maximum value for our clients. Our clients operate across a wide range of industries, and we have a strong track record in the finance, consumer, life sciences, technology and entertainment sectors. We are highly respected for the services we provide by combining our sector experience, business-oriented approach, and dispute-minded contract drafting skills. These services include expanding our clients’ sale and service networks through agency, distribution and franchise networks, procurement of goods and services, and outsourcing our clients’ ancillary operations.

By working hand in hand with our arbitration and litigation team, we support our clients to resolve their problems with business partners amicably. We help our clients with contractual warranty problems, issues arising out of the termination of contracts and unfair competition matters. We are resourceful and creative in seeking opportunities for our clients.

Corporate and mergers and acquisitions: We advise on a broad spectrum of corporate matters in a variety of sectors, drawing on decades of experience. We assist our clients in managing risk, providing appropriate responses to corporate crises and making critical strategic decisions.

We have the scale and experience to handle a wide range of corporate transactions, from incorporation to liquidation. We are equally at home in conducting due diligence exercises, structuring transactions, advising on merger control, incorporating Warranty and Indemnity clauses and closing transactions. We also have vast experience in priority rights, participating certificates, (ordinary or convertible) bond issuing and Directors and Officers liability. We are highly capable of drafting and negotiating shareholders’ agreements and charters for family companies and have a strong academic background to help our clients in issues arising out of the so-called group law (Konzernrecht).

Whether we are designing a company’s corporate structure, representing our clients in M&A deals or counselling a board, we bring our collaborative, interdisciplinary approach to every job.

Product liability: We deploy our experience of working with the most complex and highly regulated industries and navigate our clients through the entire supply chain procedure. Our expertise covers a wide range of sectors, including life sciences, technology, food, consumer, insurance and financial services. We assist our clients to conform with the applicable technical standards and safety issues, and product recall matters.

We are also known for delivering results in local and cross-border product liability disputes. We have been involved in many of Turkey’s most significant product liability issues and often work as local counsel on multi-front litigations and class actions. We bring cultural and jurisdictional expertise that is second to none when dealing with cross-border product liability matters.

Employment: The success of each business depends on its people. Fostering diversity, encouraging key members and protecting against team defections are essential to business success and involve many challenges. Meeting these challenges becomes more difficult in light of today’s ever-changing world. We have been helping many local and international companies to tackle these challenges.

We cover the full range of work from day-to-day support to advising on the most complex or contentious of disputes in both individual and collective employment law. Going beyond legal advice, we also support clients with a range of innovative, value-adding services to overcome the employment-related problems they might face. We have a solid academic background, and our articles have frequently been cited in Court of Cassation decisions. This unparalleled academic background also helps us be creative in seeking beneficial and practical solutions for our clients.

Competition and antitrust: In pursuance of European competition law, Turkish competition law consists of the three pillars of the prohibition of restricting agreements and abuse of market dominance, and control of mergers and acquisitions. We have a strong academic background and practical experience in each of these three pillars. Our team deals with horizontal and vertical restraints, non-compete clauses, bundle sales, refusal to deal, and essential facility cases.

We provide a wide range of competition law services, from merger control and exemption filings to representation during cartel investigations and advice on general competition compliance matters in the sense of efficient monitoring and evaluation.

Intellectual property: Because our clients’ intellectual property (“IP”) rights are the most essential driving factor in their innovation and growth, we provide protection for them as a priority. We handle a wide variety of cases concerning trademark, domain name, copyright, design, geographical indication and patent disputes. Many of these cases include cross-border elements, and we are rich in real-world experience and industry insight.

We also play an integral role in advising on a broad range of commercial transactions involving intellectual property rights, media, and information technology and privacy issues. We provide solutions that give a competitive edge to our clients. We also advise on creating, developing and commercialising our clients’ IP, including prosecuting new applications, IP renewals, registration of licences and name changes.