Practice Areas

We act as external general counsel on the legal questions that businesses meet in their daily operations, taking your commercial goals and appetite for risk into account. We draft and review contracts, support you in negotiations, manage compliance processes and suggest ways to prevent disputes before they arise. Our support can be set up for a single matter or as an ongoing advisory arrangement.

• Drafting, review and negotiation of commercial contracts
• Sales, distribution, agency, dealership and supply agreements
• Confidentiality, licence and service agreements
• Compliance with commercial regulation and internal policies
• Transfers of businesses and related transactions
• Legal assessment aimed at preventing disputes
• External general counsel services, ongoing or project-based

From the formation of a company to changes in its ownership, we help build and maintain the corporate framework that long-term stability and investor confidence depend on. We handle the formation of companies with domestic and foreign shareholders, the arrangement of relations between shareholders, corporate governance practices, and the legal due diligence that mergers and acquisitions require.

• Company formation and structuring (joint-stock and limited companies)
• Articles of association and internal regulations
• Shareholders’ agreements
• Board and general assembly procedures and advice
• Corporate governance and compliance practices
• Mergers, demergers and acquisitions
• Legal due diligence
• Companies with foreign shareholders and offshore structures

We structure financing transactions so that they meet your financial objectives and the applicable regulatory requirements. We advise on debt and equity financing, loan and security documentation, investment agreements and capital markets transactions, building the legal framework of the transaction and managing the process on your side of the table.

• Debt and equity financing
• Loan agreements and documentation
• Security structures (pledges, mortgages, guarantees and similar)
• Investment and partnership agreements
• Securities regulation and regulatory compliance
• Capital markets transactions
• Legal assessment of financial restructurings

Cross-border commerce is complex, and we support you in carrying out your operations securely and efficiently. We advise on import and export regulation, customs law, the opportunities that trade agreements offer, foreign investment and international commercial contracts, and we assess with you the legal framework for trade and investment flows between Türkiye and Southeast Asia.

• Import and export regulation
• Customs law
• Trade agreements and preferential trade regimes
• Foreign investment and market-entry structuring
• International sale, distribution and supply agreements
• Sanctions and export-control compliance
• Legal assessment of payment and security instruments in cross-border transactions