Since 2020, Kaşlıoğlu Law Firm which continues to work with its new intuitional structure was founded by İsmail Kaşlıoğlu in 1974. Our law firm is  based in Istanbul and provides wide range of legal services including legal consultancy, mediation, arbitration and litigation to real persons and  legal entities reside in Turkey and Abroad operating in various fields especially E-Commerce, Pharmaceuticals, Telecommunications, Petrochemicals, Real Estate, Advertising, Automotive, Vehicle Inspection, Textile, Glassware, Retail, Software, Transportation, Music, primarily in the fields of Intellectual and Industrial Rights, Contracts Law, Law of Obligations, Commercial Law, Competition Law, Advertising Law, Personal Data Protection Law, Labour Law, Consumer Law, Real Estate Law, Law of Succession, Law of Persons by co-working with other law firms based in different cities especially Ankara, Izmir, Bursa, Adana and associates abroad.

INTELLECTUAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY LAW

As Kaşlıoğlu Law Firm, we keep up–to-date with national and international advances in the field of Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights. In this context, through trademark and patent attorneys and expert lawyers, we provide legal consultancy to our clients on providing drafting contracts and other issues regarding the protection of intellectual and industrial property values especially trademarks, patents, utility models, designs, geographical indications, works, copyrights, computer software. In addition, we provide litigation follow-up services in civil and criminal cases, including cancellation and invalidation cases and negative declaratory actions regarding the Intellectual and Industrial Rights, cases for the prevention, cessation and prevention of infringement of Intellectual and Industrial rights and compensation cases arising from unfair use; cases for the annulment of decisions issued by the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office Re-Examination and Evaluation Board; evidence detection files for detecting infringements; enforcement of search and seizure decisions for precautionary or detection purposes.

ADVERTISING LAW

Based on the point where trade, electronic commerce and consumption habits have reached our age, advertisements are of remarkable significance for both advertisers and consumers. In this context, we provide legal services to both our clients who own brands and advertising agencies as well as our clients would like to advertise themselves on advertisements, placements, promotions, collaborations, advertisements to be published in media such as press organs, outdoor venues, and social media. We provide legal opinions within the framework of advertising legislation, in particular the Regulation on Commercial Advertising and Unfair Commercial Practices, decisions of the Advertising Board, principles of the Advertising Self-Regulatory Board, and intellectual property law, especially copyright law. Contract processes are carried out, objection processes regarding the decisions of the Advertising Board are carried out, where a lawsuit is filed, services such as resolving the dispute and applying for judicial remedies regarding broadcast suspension and/or other judicial and administrative fines imposed by the relevant authorities are provided. For our clients who do not act as advertisers but as intermediary service providers, we provide both consultancy and litigation follow-up services in areas such as the control of advertisements given as keywords in search engines (e.g. Google Ads) and the use of brands belonging to online marketplace sellers as advertisements. Besides, services are provided for consumers to cope with deceptive and misleading advertisements, exploitative advertisements, advertisements that jeopardize the safety of life and property and/or endanger public health and to compensate for their damages.

DATA PROTECTION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAW

We provide consultancy to our clients on local and international data protection law issues, encompassing relevant Turkish legislation in the field of Personal Data Protection, as well as regulations in European, Middle Eastern, and North African countries, with a holistic perspective tailored to the needs of our clients. Our team, with experience in all aspects of IT and Data Protection Law and holding international certificates in this field, operates in compliance with current legal and technological developments in the transfer of data abroad, data breach management, data subject request processes, data protection impact analysis, training and awareness programs, and many other issues based on its experience in various sectors. Our law firm also offers compliance services with the EU Artificial Intelligence Law, providing clients with a secure roadmap and a strong legal foundation in the field of technology for the protection of data processed through artificial intelligence technologies.

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE LAW

We provide consultancy and litigation services to our clients operating in the field of e-commerce as service providers, intermediary service providers, venders, platform owners or in any capacity. In this context, we provide services regarding the establishment of companies complying with the relevant legislation, operating their activities within this framework, creation of membership agreements, distance sales contracts, privacy policies, intermediary contracts, cookie policies, terms of use, protection of intellectual property rights, informing on their obligations arising from e-commerce, especially tax, drawing up commercial electronic messages and contents to be sent to consumers, finalization of applications and complaints from consumers and venders, creation of contracts with third parties providing services in the execution of electronic commerce activities, restriction of access to inappropriate content, IYS application processes.

COMPETITION LAW

We  provide legal consultancy and litigation follow-up services in notification to the Competition Authority regarding mergers and acquisitions subject to permission, filing complaints to the Competition Authority regarding issues such as abuse of dominant position, drawing up petitions and response letters to be submitted to the Competition Authority, compliance of contracts with competition law, carrying out the application and authorization processes to be made to the Competition Authority and in disputes arising from competition law.

LABOUR LAW

Through our expert consultant and lawyers in field of Labour Law, we provide preventative legal services and consultancy to our clients in individual and collective labour law within scope of Labour and social security law. In order to draw up, update and revise the employment contracts of the companies and to ensure the smooth functioning of the company organization, we manage the stages by staying in touch with the relevant units directly in all kinds of Human Resources processes. In order for clients to act complying with the current legislative changes and to shape their conditions in accordance with the legislation, the essential information is provided regularly via various trainings and information texts. We provide trainings on Labour Law legislation to the Human Resources departments of corporate firms. We represent the parties as the employee attorney or employer attorney at the mediation stage in disputes may stem from termination of the contract of employment. Further to that, we provide legal services to our clients in litigation follow-up of the process of reemployment and labour claims, follow-up of lawsuits stemming from disputes arising from social security law, follow-up of the lawsuits arising from pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages of work accidents and occupational diseases, creation of collective labour contract, conducting and finalizing the negotiation with the trade union. In addition, We provide legal consultancy to our clients regarding implementation by representing them in all kinds of disputes arising from Labour Law, take every necessary action to avert claims and reputational loss.