We structure the partnership even as it is being formed, with the separation already in mind.
Joint ventures, consortia, and strategic collaborations mean growth when structured correctly and years of disputes when structured poorly. We build partnership structures that balance management, profit sharing, intellectual property rights, and exit scenarios from the very start.
A good partnership begins with a good contract
Two companies combining their strengths is often the fastest route to a new market, a new technology or a major project. Yet the fate of a partnership is determined not by the optimism at its founding, but by how balanced its governance, profit distribution, non-compete and separation provisions are.
From equity partnerships to contractual collaborations and tender consortia, we design structures that clarify each party's contribution, expectations and exit scenarios from the outset. In Turkish–German joint ventures, with a team that knows the culture of both sides, we translate negotiation into a common language.
In Which Structures Does It Come Into Play?
The collaboration models our partnership service typically covers.
Equity Joint Venture
Formation of a joint company (JV); share allocation, governance structure and shareholders' agreement.
Contractual Collaboration
Without forming a joint company; distributorship, joint production, technology and know-how sharing structures.
Consortium & Project
Consortium, ordinary partnership and business-partnership structures for tenders and major projects.
How Does the Process Work?
The three-stage approach we follow in structuring partnerships.
01 · Objective & Model
We clarify the parties' contributions and expectations, and select the most suitable collaboration model with regard to its tax and competition dimensions.
02 · Contract Set
We prepare the partnership, management, licence and confidentiality agreements as a single coherent set, and negotiate the key provisions.
03 · Governance & Exit
We structure the decision-making mechanisms, deadlock solutions and exit scenarios (put/call, liquidation) from the outset.
Experience that brings two cultures to the same table
Most international partnerships are worn down not by legal but by cultural misunderstandings. With decades of experience in German–Turkish business relations, we align expectations from the outset and turn a partnership into a structure that works in practice, not merely on paper.
- Field experience in Turkish–German joint ventures
- Expertise in deadlock and exit mechanisms
- Integration of intellectual property and know-how protection into the partnership
- Collaboration design mindful of competition-law limits
- Uninterrupted representation in post-partnership disputes
Specialised Sub-Services
Joint Ventures & Collaborations — the focused applications of this service for particular needs.
Other Transaction Advisory Services
When needed, the same team can seamlessly extend its work to our other solutions in this area.
Related Areas & Legislation
The focus areas, practice areas, desks and legislation connected with this service.
The Team Delivering This Service
With our multilingual team of lawyers, well-versed in Turkish and German law, we are by your side.
No. The cooperation can be run through a joint company (an equity JV) or set up purely through a contractual structure. The choice is made according to the project's duration, the size of the investment, the allocation of liability and the tax implications. We lay out both models before you, with their pros and cons. The decisive practical difference is liability and exit. In a purely contractual structure — an ordi…
An equal-share structure does carry the risk of deadlock: when the partners cannot agree there is no majority to break the tie, and the company can stop being able to decide anything at all. But that risk is largely a drafting problem, and it can be managed.At formation we write the graduated mechanisms into the shareholders’ agreement — escalation to senior management, an independent board member or a neutral arbit…
The brand, technology and know-how contributed to the partnership must be clearly defined through licence agreements, and who retains ownership and what happens upon separation must be set down from the outset. Together with confidentiality and non-compete provisions, we protect your intellectual capital throughout the partnership and thereafter. Two steps make the protection concrete: register the rights formally —…
A well-drafted shareholders’ agreement deals with a partner’s default before it happens, and provides graduated consequences rather than one blunt instrument.The usual mechanisms are a period in which to cure the breach; a penalty clause under the Turkish Code of Obligations (No. 6098); temporary restriction of voting and management rights; set-off against dividends; a call option letting the other partner take over…
The practical difference is the reach of liability. In a consortium each party is responsible only for the part of the work it has taken on, and each undertakes its own portion separately. In a joint venture the partners are responsible for the whole of the work together, and in most cases jointly and severally.That distinction matters most in public tenders. The Public Procurement Law (No. 4734) treats joint ventur…
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