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Arslan & Arslan Law > Firm Profile

The firm: Arslan Arslan is a law firm based in Istanbul having a team with over 50 years of legal experience with particular expertise in dispute resolution. Arslan Arslan provides top tier legal services in timely and cost-effective manner to its domestic and international clients in litigation, arbitration and enforcement and execution proceedings.

The partners of the law firm has widely known for their dispute resolution practice, in particular, litigation of complex civil, commercial, employment and administrative disputes before Turkish courts as well as enforcement and execution proceedings and debt collection. The firm also represents its clients in domestic and international commercial arbitration and investment arbitration. The legal practice of the firm includes enforcement and execution of foreign arbitral awards and court decisions in Turkey.

Arslan Arslan provides legal services in matters relevant to Corporate, Commercial and Contracts Law, Employment Law and Compliance, Real Estate Law and Sports Law.

Arslan  Arslan is highly capable to accompany and guide its clients with comprehensive legal consultancy on pre-litigation matters, structuring of claims, and  dispute resolution including debt collection in Turkey.

Arslan Arslan represents domestic and international clients in all major sectors such as energy, construction, mining, technology, banking and financial services, sports, entertainment, property development and investment. The legal practice of the firm is not limited to Istanbul and it provides legal services in all major cities of Turkey.

Main practice areas
The law firm offers a broad range of services to its local and international clients through its partners focusing on diversified fields of law. Our partners have proven track records of significant accomplishment in,  among others:

Dispute resolution (litigation and arbitration): Our team has solid dispute resolution experience in litigation before Turkish courts, including commercial, civil, labor and administrative courts, in addition to the Court of Appeals and Council of State. Our work includes complex commercial, civil, labor and administrative disputes in a variety of sectors, such as energy, chemicals, mining, construction, entertainment, IT. Our team also has extensive experience in domestic and international arbitrations under a variety of institutional rules, including the ICC, ICSID, LCIA, ISTAC, where they represent domestic and international clients as counsel before the tribunals. We also provide legal services in enforcement of foreign arbitral awards and court decisions in relation to business matters and execution proceedings for debt collection.

Employment: Our team provides legal services for employment including both litigation for employment disputes of every kind and legal advice in relation to employment matters including negotiation, drafting and termination of employment contracts in addition to issues regarding labor union law and social security law.

Competition law: We support our clients with strategic approaches and practical legal advice to help them to avoid any hidden risks and enable them to access their commercial targets with innovative structures and transaction planning. We advise on reviewing and drafting agreements and documents including antitrust and competition law effects such as distribution, dealership, franchise, toll manufacturing agreements and any other, negotiating them and accompany our clients during the implementation of these agreements. We also work on merger control matters, on filing notifications and obtaining clearance for the mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures.

Banking, finance and capital markets: We offer our services on banking and finance transactions including commercial and institutional lending, acquisition finance, project finance. We also advise on corporate governance practices, domestic compliance and regulatory obligations of public companies, requirements regarding mandatory tender offers, public disclosures, related party transactions and regulatory filings.

Compliance and investigations: We provide legal services in compliance for employment, competition and data protection matters. Accordingly, we advise multinational companies on achieving their policy in ethics and compliance in particularly regarding fair labour practices, human rights, anti-corruption, data protection and competition in Turkey.

Real estate: The firm deals with any procedures before the land registries such as sale and purchase of a property, lease, register an encumbrance, mortgages or release. We also provide advice to foreigners for the acquisition of real estate in Turkey, domestic and foreign clients on development projects, investment transactions and on litigation matters. Our services include providing advice, drafting agreements, documents, negotiations, following up the e-procedures and registrations.