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Yes. We adapt group policies — the code of conduct, the gifts and benefits policy, anti-bribery and anti-corruption, the whistleblowing hotline — to Turkish legislation and to local business practice. The anti-bribery part is aligned with the bribery and abuse-of-office provisions of the Turkish Penal Code (No. 5237); the hotline is aligned with the Personal Data Protection Law (No. 6698), both for the personal data it collects and for the protection of the person who reports.What we do is a legal adaptation rathe…

Yes. We draft contracts in Turkish, German and English, and where a deal involves parties on both sides we prepare bilingual, two-column texts. A translation alone is not enough: the wording has to carry the same legal meaning in each language. In every bilingual contract we set out expressly which language version prevails, which closes off a common source of interpretation disputes. One point is worth knowing in advance: Turkish courts conduct proceedings in Turkish, and a contract in a foreign language is put t…

If you want us to, yes — a check-up does not have to stop at finding the risks. Once the report is in we prioritise the remediation plan with you and then work through it: updating contracts, completing missing general assembly resolutions and trade registry filings, putting the employment documents required by the Labour Law (No. 4857) in order, and closing the compliance gaps under the Personal Data Protection Law (No. 6698).The flexibility matters. Some clients hand the whole remediation to us; others run the s…

Yes. In an audit, a search or a seizure we provide legal support on site, a strategy for statements, and coordination of the crisis communications. Under the Criminal Procedure Code (No. 5271) the rights of the company and of its employees are protected carefully — to have a lawyer present, to object to the process, and to have that objection entered in the record. Our advice is consistent: give no statement before a legal assessment has been made.In administrative audits the procedural safeguards are watched just…

Yes; a single lawsuit avoided often saves more than an entire annual advisory budget. Alongside litigation, enforcement and criminal risks, the costs avoided also include management time and losses of reputation and business relationships. Prevention works by setting contracts up correctly at the outset, closing compliance gaps early, and settling disagreements before they harden into disputes. No approach removes every risk — but preventing is generally more economical, and far more predictable, than remedying af…

It is useful for any company past a certain size, but there are situations where it matters a great deal more: a contract volume that is growing, headcount rising fast, an investment round or a share sale in prospect, or simply a legal set-up nobody has looked at as a whole for years.The check-up takes the layers together rather than one at a time — corporate records under the Turkish Commercial Code (No. 6102), employment practice under the Labour Law (No. 4857), the contract portfolio, intellectual property, and…

A legal risk analysis begins with a concrete inventory: we go through your contracts, your recurring business processes, your corporate records and your past disputes. Each risk identified is scored along two axes — how likely it is to materialise and what its impact would be — and the scores are gathered into a prioritised risk map. The map shows which risk has to be closed straight away, which is to be monitored, and which is better transferred by contract or by insurance.The areas that come up most often are em…

The fixed monthly retainer is set according to the size of your company, the volume of contracts and transactions, the expected density of queries and the areas of law to be covered. We define the scope together and make clear from the outset which work is included in the fixed fee and which — litigation, arbitration or a major transaction, for example — falls outside it and is billed separately. That framework is recorded in a written engagement letter.The point is to turn your legal spending into a predictable,…

It depends on the scope of the opinion and on how many documents and legal questions have to be examined. A focused opinion on a single question can be ready in a few working days, while a multi-dimensional assessment spanning several areas of legislation, comparative law or a large set of documents can take a few weeks.The factors that move the timetable are how clearly the question is framed, whether the necessary documents arrive complete and on time, and whether there is a foreign law dimension. For urgent dec…

The general practice is a comprehensive check-up once a year, with focused interim reviews upon significant legislative changes. For our ongoing-advisory clients, this cycle is planned as a natural part of the annual work calendar. Beyond the fixed annual cycle, we also recommend an interim review whenever the business changes materially — entering a new market, launching a product line, an acquisition or restructuring, or a shift in your customer base. Such events often create obligations before any law changes,…

We work on the principle of responding on the same or next business day for routine questions, and more quickly than that for urgent matters. Because our regular clients work with a dedicated team that knows their files, there is no need to explain everything from scratch with each question; this improves both the speed and the accuracy of the answer. The urgency levels and the channel you prefer — telephone, e-mail, a shared workspace — are settled when the scope of the service is agreed, and availability for cri…

Stop the breach, preserve the relevant evidence — emails, logs, documents — without altering any of it, and make no formal statement before you have a legal assessment. Then open an internal investigation with a defined scope, and work out which notification duties the nature of the incident actually triggers.Those duties are specific rather than general. If it is a personal data breach, notification to the Board and to the individuals concerned arises within a reasonable time under the Personal Data Protection La…

Absolutely. In high-risk matters, an independent second opinion is a customary and sound step in international practice. The purpose is not to audit your existing counsel’s work but to have a critical decision confirmed by an independent eye. We work on a confidentiality basis and without disturbing that relationship, assess the file impartially, and report both the risks that have been missed and the alternatives that would strengthen your position. The professional conduct rules for lawyers in Türkiye call for n…

Yes, when it is built to scale. The point of a compliance programme is not to generate bureaucracy but to manage the risks the company is actually exposed to. For an SME, instead of the comprehensive structures large companies run, a lean set-up is usually enough: a few critical policies, short and practical training, and one clear channel for reports and complaints.There is a point that decides the question, though. Some obligations apply regardless of how big the company is — the Personal Data Protection Law (No…

Take an opinion on any decision whose consequences are hard to reverse or expensive to get wrong. In practice the recurring ones are high-value or long-term contracts, whether a new business model or product complies with the legislation, company acquisitions and restructurings, tax and regulatory choices, and decisions where directors and board members may carry personal liability.A written opinion does two things at once. It sets out the options and the risks on the record so that you can take the decision prope…

On the contrary, the most costly legal mistakes are usually made during the founding and growth phase. That is the phase in which the partnership structure, the first contracts, the employment relationships and the personal-data arrangements all get set, and foundations laid wrong cost several times as much to correct afterwards. For smaller companies we build entry-level models with a deliberately narrow scope that scales with the need, so the scope widens as the company grows. You get legal support at the decisi…

We deliver a written report containing an executive summary, findings area by area, the risk level of each finding, and a concrete remediation proposal. Findings are grouped by area — company law, contracts, employment, intellectual property, data protection, permits and licences — and each carries a risk grade of high, medium or low. The report does more than count problems: it gives an order of priority and a roadmap. It is kept plain for internal use and can, on request, be prepared in a format fit for investor…

In any announcement of a discounted sale the reference price must be the lowest price applied in the 30 days before the discount, and the percentage has to be calculated from that figure. In Türkiye the rule comes from the Law on Consumer Protection (No. 6502) and the Regulation on Discounted Sales; the EU applies a comparable “lowest price in 30 days” rule introduced by the Omnibus Directive.The point of it is to stop the familiar manoeuvre of lifting a price shortly before a campaign and then presenting it as re…

No; a legal check-up runs largely on documents, in a way that does not stop your day-to-day operation. We begin with a list of the documents that will be needed and a secure way of sharing them, and our own team does the bulk of the review.We take up the time of management and your teams only for short, scheduled information meetings and at the reporting stage where the findings are discussed. Where documents containing personal data are shared, the confidentiality and access limits required by the Personal Data P…

Yes. Reviewing contracts already in force is often where the most immediate risk is found. We scan your existing portfolio and report agreements that have lapsed, renew automatically, carry unbalanced liability, penalty or termination clauses, or no longer align with current legislation. Because contracts in Türkiye are governed mainly by the Code of Obligations (TBK, Law 6098) and, for commercial dealings, the Turkish Commercial Code (TTK, Law 6102), amendments to those rules can leave older clauses unenforceable…

Yes. For the agreements you use most often, such as sales, services, supply, confidentiality and distance-selling contracts, we prepare company-specific templates with plain-language completion guides. Each template is built on the Code of Obligations (TBK, Law 6098) and, for commercial transactions, the Turkish Commercial Code (TTK, Law 6102), carrying the clauses your business actually needs — scope, price and payment, liability, termination, governing law and dispute resolution. The drafting stays inside the li…

Yes. We prepare legal opinions on Turkish law in German or English, structured so that a head office in Germany can rely on them directly, with clear conclusions, the governing provisions and practical recommendations rather than a literal translation of a Turkish memo. Where a matter also touches German law or the interaction between the two systems, we set out that dimension comparatively in the same report, which is often what decides a cross-border question. The Turkish-law part of the opinion rests on Turkish…

A significant portion of compliance violations stem not from bad faith but from a lack of awareness. Employees who are informed about data protection, codes of ethics, and reporting obligations reduce risk at its source. For this reason, we regard regular training and awareness initiatives as an indispensable part of a sustainable compliance culture.