We surface the facts behind your decisions.
From heirship and estate research to asset tracing, and from internal investigations to white-collar defence, we deliver research and investigation services that produce legally usable findings.
Research Services
We deliver the services in this category individually or within an integrated plan of work, according to your needs.
Heirship & Estate Investigation
Who are the heirs, and what does the estate comprise? From civil registry and land registry records to bank accounts and company shares, we handle the identification of heirs and the documentation of all the estate's assets and liabilities end to end, including along the Türkiye–Germany corridor.
Explore →bAsset Investigation
A won lawsuit or an overdue receivable is only as valuable as the debtor's reachable assets. With a systematic asset investigation reaching from land registry, banks, and company shares to receivables held by third parties, we build the groundwork for collection.
Explore →cInternal Investigations
Suspected misconduct, a whistleblower report or a compliance breach grows worse when the internal investigation is mishandled. From incident identification to interviews, from evidence preservation to sanction and notification decisions, we conduct internal investigations under legal safeguards.
Explore →White-Collar Crime & Corporate Defence
Allegations of fraud, breach of trust, forgery and bribery carry for companies the risk of being both the victim and the accused. Criminal complaints and joining as an intervening party on the company side, defence on the executive side; we provide strategic representation in economic crimes.
Criminal Complaint & Intervention in the CaseExecutive Liability AnalysisSearch & Seizure ResponseSettlement & Outcome ManagementExplore →Counterparty & Reputation Due Diligence
A new distributor, supplier, partner, or customer is only as trustworthy as its commercial history. Through registry, litigation, enforcement, and reputation screening, we reveal the counterparty's true profile before you sign, grounding your decision in data.
Explore →fDigital Evidence & eDiscovery
Emails, messages, system logs, and deleted files are the true witnesses of most disputes. We manage e-discovery processes for the lawful collection and preservation of digital evidence and for finding the relevant record within large volumes of data.
Explore →How We Work?
Three lawfulness-focused stages we follow in every research file.
01 · Scope & Legal Basis
We define which question is to be answered and what information is needed; we draw the KVKK and evidence-law boundaries of the research from the outset.
02 · Research & Verification
We systematically search population, land-registry, trade-registry and litigation records together with open sources; we verify critical findings from a second source.
03 · Report & Action
We report the findings together with their evidentiary value; we turn them into an enforcement, litigation, transaction or defence step.
We produce findings of evidentiary quality, not mere information
In our research services the aim is not merely to gather information; it is to produce findings, obtained by lawful means, that can be used in court, in negotiation and in the boardroom. We observe every boundary, from the protection of personal data to attorney-client privilege; in files on the Türkiye–Germany axis we search both countries' record systems together. The findings connect directly to your enforcement, litigation, transaction or defence strategy.
- Heirship & Estate Research
- Asset Tracing
- Internal Investigations
- White-Collar Crime & Corporate Defence
- Counterparty & Reputation Research
- Digital Evidence & E-Discovery
Related Practice Areas
Research works hand in hand with several areas of law.
The Team Delivering This Service
Meet our multilingual lawyers, fluent in Turkish and German law.
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Read more →Yes, provided they were obtained lawfully. WhatsApp exchanges you were a party to, screenshots and exported records can all be put before a court, and their integrity can be reinforced by having them formally determined before a notary or examined by an expert.What decides it is how the evidence was obtained. The Code of Civil Procedure (No. 6100) provides that evidence obtained unlawfully cannot form the basis of a…
Often, yes. Deleted e-mails and files can frequently be recovered through server backups, mailbox retention windows, shadow copies and forensic imaging of drives, but the window narrows quickly, because systems overwrite freed space over time. That is why preservation should begin the moment a suspicion arises: a legal hold stops routine deletion and log rotation, and forensic imaging captures the data with a verifi…
Because the value of a digital record depends as much on how it was obtained and kept as on what it says. If you cannot document who took the data, when, and by what method, the other side will argue that the record may have been altered afterwards or obtained unlawfully — and the evidence becomes something to litigate about rather than something to rely on.The chain of custody is the unbroken record that closes tha…
Not by reading them one by one, but through e-discovery. The relevant data sources — mailboxes, shared drives, backups — are first collected and copied securely; the data set is then narrowed in stages by date range, by party or person, and by key concept. Duplicates and irrelevant records are removed, the smaller remaining set is reviewed by a lawyer with a legal eye, and the relevant items are separated into the e…
In a badly designed review, yes — the risk is real. Examining an employee’s email, device or system logs means processing personal data, so the review is bound by the core principles of the Personal Data Protection Law (No. 6698): a specific and legitimate purpose, a scope limited and proportionate to that purpose, and prior notice to the employee. An unlimited, covert, just-in-case sweep exposes you to a KVKK sanct…
Yes, where it is done from the right sources and by the right method. Trade registry and MERSİS records, announcements in the Trade Registry Gazette, court and enforcement records and publicly available financial data are open to anyone; gathering and interpreting them is legitimate due diligence, and the Turkish Commercial Code (No. 6102) proceeds on the publicity of the register.The line begins where personal data…
The report pulls scattered public information about the counterparty into a single decision document. It typically covers the company’s identity, its trade registry and MERSİS records and whether it is genuinely trading; the shareholding structure together with signature and representation powers; the litigation and enforcement history; bankruptcy, composition and attachment records; whatever financial indicators ar…
It depends on the scope of the review and on where the target company is. A standard counterparty review covering Türkiye alone — registry records, powers of representation, litigation and enforcement history and a basic reputational search — can usually be delivered within a few working days.Files with a German leg, or that need overseas registry searches, deeper financial analysis or verification on the ground, na…
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