Legal Advisory · Service

Measure your company's legal health before problems arise.

Contracts, corporate records, permits, and compliance processes age unnoticed and accumulate risk. With periodic legal audits, we systematically scan your company's entire legal framework, report risks in order of priority, and close them.

Overview

Risks accumulate where they go unaudited

As companies grow, contracts fall out of date, gaps open up in the corporate books, permits await renewal and new legislation quietly gives rise to obligations. The bill for this build-up falls due all at once — in an audit, at a transaction closing or in a dispute.

A legal check-up reverses this picture: it scans your company's legal affairs at set intervals with a systematic checklist, ranks the findings by importance and urgency, and proposes a concrete remedial step for each finding. Ahead of a sale, a funding round or a financing process, it brings the company into due diligence readiness.

Audit checklist
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What Do We Audit?

The principal areas systematically scanned within the check-up.

Contract Framework

Whether customer, supplier and employment contracts are up to date, together with risky clauses and missing safeguards.

Corporate Records

The completeness of books, resolutions, signature circulars, registrations and share records.

Compliance & Permits

The status of KVKK, employment law, sectoral permits and licences, and continuing obligations.

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How Does the Process Work?

A three-stage path from audit to closed risks.

01 · Scan

We examine the documents and processes with our structured checklist and hold short fact-finding interviews with management.

02 · Risk Report

We report the findings with a red-amber-green prioritisation and propose an owner and a deadline for each finding.

03 · Remediation & Follow-Up

We close the critical risks together and, if you wish, make the order permanent with a periodic check-up schedule.

Why Köksal?

An audit that looks through the buyer's eyes

As a team that works on the buyer's side in due diligence files, we look at your company with the eye an investor or an auditor would bring. That way, risks become visible and are closed before a counterparty takes a seat at the table.

  • Checklists drawn from M&A due diligence practice
  • An executive report with red-amber-green prioritisation
  • A concrete remedial step and a deadline proposal for each finding
  • Experience preparing companies ahead of sales, investment and financing
  • A lasting legal order through periodic follow-up
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Other Legal Advisory Services

When needed, the same team can seamlessly extend its work to our other solutions in this area.

All Legal Advisory services
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Related Areas & Legislation

The focus areas, practice areas, desks and legislation connected with this service.

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The Team Delivering This Service

With our multilingual team of lawyers, well-versed in Turkish and German law, we are by your side.

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), emp…

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 contai…

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 road…

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…

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 restructur…

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