• Providing legal and tax consultancy services in relation to financing agreements with Turkish and non-Turkish finance institutions, securities and all other matters; establishment of warranties and completion of the necessary corporate actions; negotiation and restructuring of the financing agreements; and providing creative and efficient solutions in terms of compliance with the legislation and risk management;
• Providing legal consultancy services in relation to Banking Law and establishment, operation, structuring and corporate organisation of the financing institutions.

• Structuring the transactions from the stage of preparation of the preliminary agreements to the signing of the binding agreements through legal, tax and financial assessments; conducting negotiations and notifications required to be made with the regulatory authorities; completion of the corporate actions and conducting closing of the transactions;
• Preparation of legal, tax and financial inspection reports of the companies and providing assistance to the companies during preparation the relevant reports;
• Participation to negotiations relating to mergers and acquisitions deals and providing creative and efficient solutions.

• Consultancy services in relation to establishment and activities of Real Estate Investment Trusts and Real Estate Investment Fund;
• Preparation of construction contracts on flat for land or revenue sharing basis; preparation of and negotiations for ordinary partnership agreements in relation to real property investments; and consultancy services regarding the implementation process;
• Negotiation of agreements relating to Real Estate Law and consultancy services in relation to the implementation process;
• Due diligence for sale and purchase of real property and legal assistance for all kinds of title deed transactions and consultancy services during the implementation process;
• Legal assistance for all kinds of transactions relating to real properties in special sites (organised industrial sites, freezones, technocities and free technology zones);
• Monitoring real estate portfolio at specific internals and consultancy services for status reporting
• Legal services for disputes arising in relation to Real Property Law.

• Following up, until the end of the judicial process, the administrative lawsuits that are filed against the actions taken, and fines imposed by, the administrative authorities.

• Providing legal assistance in relation to Labour and Social Security legislation; creating solutions for the labour law disputes and assistance with the relevant documentation;
• Providing legal and tax consultancy services regarding structuring of the employment contracts based on different share options;
• Conducting status analysis for legal entities in terms of the Labour and Social Security legislation; providing consultancy services for improvement, restructuring and compliance work;
• Providing consultancy services regarding compliance with the innovations and amendments introduced by labour law and preparation of employment contracts and company policies;
• Providing legal services in cases of termination of employment contracts and resolution of the disputes before the litigation stage.

• Management and conduct of compliance projects for personal data protection and providing data protection advice to multinational clients on their day-to-day business and operations;
• Consultancy services regarding the Personal Data Protection Law (including compliance, consultancy services for data protection, rights and requests of the data owners, overseas data transfers, localisation liabilities, rules and regulations relating to different sectors, cyber security issues, data breach notifications and legal actions against the decisions of the Personal Data Protection Board);
• Corporate structuring of the personal data protection programs; data processing agreements; management of legal inspections for the protection of personal data; management of data breaches; and resolution of the disputes relating to protection of personal data.

• Company Law
• Commercial Law
• Family Law
• Inheritance Law
• Consumer Law
• Health Law
• Enforcement Law

• Providing legal advice regarding on site examinations and inspections;
• Preparation and submission of the required notifications for mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures and providing legal assistance to the parties during the preparation stage; management of the applications to be made in order to receive approval and/or exemption for the mergers and acquisitions, franchise agreements and technology transfer applications;
• Providing consultancy services in cases that are contrary to the competition law and violate the dominant position; and providing legal services for the complaints and defences.

• Providing legal consultancy services regarding management and investment actions of publicly traded companies and their relationship with the Capital Markets;
• Providing legal and tax consultancy services during public offerings;
• Developing strategies for direct acquisition and exclusion and delisting mechanisms of publicly traded companies; preparation of voluntary or compulsory share purchase proposals;
• Providing legal and tax assessments and assistance in order to build a bespoke structure for the investment activities of the clients.

• Providing legal advice on legal concerns faced by clients in relation to day-to-day actions or transactions within their operational structure by taking into consideration the legal and tax risks; identifying the most convenient legal structure for the targeted transaction, and preparation of the relevant agreements in order to build and complete this structure; and provision of all legal assistance in this regard;
• Providing assessments regarding the provisions of private law that the companies are subject to; provision of legal assistance and conducting compliance due diligences;
• Formation of joint stock companies and limited liability companies and provision of legal and tax consultancy services related to their board meetings; conducting ordinary and extraordinary general assembly meetings; assessment of technical bankruptcy circumstances; and assessment of capital increase and capital decrease processes in terms of both corporate law and tax law;
• Commercial Litigation.

• Creating, implementing and monitoring the outcome of the transaction plans regarding intragroup mergers, spin-offs and share swaps in order to achieve optimum benefit in terms of strategy, finance and tax for the activities of such companies which are subsidiary to the group companies;
• Consultancy services in relation to new investments in order to create the best structure in terms of law and tax.

• Legal services in relation to the objection and litigation procedure against additional accruals and penalty actions brought by the customs authorities;
• Consultancy services regarding Foreign Commerce and Foreign Exchange Law;
• Consultancy services in relation to domestic and international anti-dumping investigations;
• Consultancy services in relation to domestic and international subsidy investigations.

• Creation of international tax planning strategies in relation to the overseas investments of our clients in Turkey and the Turkey investments of our clients abroad, by taking into consideration the tax practices in over 80 countries within the scope of the international tax services network, which we are also a member of, and the international regulations such as agreements avoiding double taxation;
• Creation of various options which may improve the tax position of our clients globally;
• Consultancy and coordination services to identify the tax risks arising from international operations and to fulfil the overseas obligations regarding the tax returns and reporting.

Consultancy Services Regarding Tax Risk Analysis

Complicated structure of the tax legislation, which is open to interpretation, makes it harder for the companies take a position against the tax regulations. In this context, with the consultancy services we offer for such concerns in order to identify and minimise the risks, we assist our clients in creating the structures to minimise these risks by presenting the tax risks for the established and to be established companies. We aim to resolve all tax concerns that you may incur during the course of your operations with our know-how and fund of knowledge in both Turkish and international tax legislation and as a consequence of our tax advice which will be based upon the Administration’s interpretations and the decisions obtained before the judicial authorities.

Monitoring the Legislation

Constant change of the tax legislation makes it harder for the companies to comply with the tax regulations and also to monitor their status in terms of the tax risks. In this respect, we inform our clients regarding the tax amendments, which may impact the company structure, by taking into consideration their line of business and organisation chart. With such notifications, we ensure that they comply with the tax liabilities and also provide support in terms of financial optimisation by pointing out to the factors that may give positive financial results, such as tax exemptions and tax deductions.

Management of Tax Inspection Process

• Representation of the clients as the primary addressee before the tax inspector during a tax inspection,
• Conducting risk inspection by taking into consideration the scope of the tax inspection and depending on the outcome, creating strategies in relation to management of the tax inspection process and a potential dispute process, which will follow the inspection.

Administrative Application and Follow up

• Documentation study in relation to refund of overpaid or redundant taxes, management of correction and complaint procedures before the Tax Administration, following up the application made through a power of attorney.

Tax Litigation

• Following up, until the end of the judicial process, the lawsuits that are filed as a result of tax accruals, tax returns filed with reservations, and correction and complaint procedures.