Before a dispute arises, see the risk and take precautions in advance.
Risk and preventive advisory identifies, analyses, and manages legal risks with preventive strategies before they turn into disputes. We map out your contract risk profile and eliminate problems before they even arise.
The best case is the one you never have to bring
Most legal problems, when caught early, are resolved at a far lower cost. Preventive advisory is built on seeing risk before it turns into a dispute and taking action while there is still time.
We screen your commercial relationships, contracts and processes for legal risk, map the potential weak points, and translate them into concrete, workable preventive actions.
When Does This Apply?
The risk areas our preventive advisory service typically addresses.
Contract Risks
Early detection of ambiguous provisions, unbalanced liability and termination risks in existing contracts.
Commercial Relationship Risks
Assessment of dispute and collection risks that may arise in relationships with business partners, suppliers, and customers.
Regulatory Changes
Anticipating the impact of legislative changes on your company and managing compliance-gap risk in advance.
How Does the Process Work?
The three-stage approach we follow in bringing risks under control.
01 · Risk Detection
We screen your contracts, processes, and commercial relationships and pinpoint potential legal risk points.
02 · Analysis & Prioritisation
We assess the identified risks by probability and impact and clarify which of them take priority.
03 · Preventive Action
For the priority risks, we recommend concrete measures, contract revisions, and process improvements.
Foresight fed by courtroom experience
No one knows better where a problem will surface than someone who has seen that problem in court. We combine our litigation and arbitration experience with a preventive outlook, designing safeguards with real knowledge of how risks actually turn into disputes.
- Realistic risk foresight fed by litigation and arbitration experience
- A holistic risk map drawn up for your contract portfolio
- Prioritisation of risks by probability and impact
- A cross-border risk perspective for Türkiye and DACH-region transactions
- A seamless transition to litigation should a dispute prove unavoidable
Specialised Sub-Services
Risk & Preventive Advisory — the focused applications of this service for particular needs.
Crisis Response: The First 48 Hours
The command structure for the first 48 hours of a sudden legal, operational, or reputational crisis: incident map, emergency measures, evidence preservation, and notification inventory.
Explore →Crisis Communication Coordination
Aligning press, customer, and employee communication with legal risk during a crisis: statement texts, spokesperson structure, and language that does not amplify litigation risk.
Explore →Authority & Audit Liaison
Managing contact with public authorities, regulators, and auditors through a single channel: information requests, on-site inspections, and notification obligations.
Explore →Post-Crisis Recovery & Exit Plan
A scheduled roadmap for compensation, recourse, and reputation repair after the acute crisis has closed; embedding the lessons into the compliance programme.
Explore →Other Services in Legal Advisory
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.
Our Matters in This Service
The anonymised examples of our work that relate to this service.
Uninterrupted legal counsel for a multinational supplier
Retainer-based support across day-to-day commercial operations, contract management and compliance processes.
Review the matter →Dispute · ArbitrationRepresentation of a Turkish manufacturer in ICC arbitration
Strategy, case management and representation in a dispute arising from a cross-border supply contract.
Review the matter →ESG & ComplianceSupply chain due diligence (LkSG) compliance programme
Risk assessment and compliance architecture for a Turkish supplier network under the German LkSG.
Review the matter →The Team Delivering This Service
With our multilingual team of lawyers, well-versed in Turkish and German law, we are by your side.
Related Publications
Fresh perspectives and guides from the Knowledge Centre.
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,…
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 e…
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…
Yes. We monitor the legislative changes relevant to your field of operations and assess their potential impact on your company in advance. This way, you are not caught unprepared when a new regulation takes effect, and you can manage in good time any risks that may arise from a compliance gap.
No approach can promise to reduce all risks to zero; commercial life inherently carries uncertainty. However, preventive advisory makes risks visible so that you can make informed decisions, and it eliminates the greater part of foreseeable problems before they even arise. Our aim is not to disregard risk but to make it manageable.
Litigation comes into play once a dispute has arisen and defends your rights in court. Preventive advisory, by contrast, aims to identify and forestall a problem before it even arises. The two complement each other; however, the preventive approach is often both the more cost-effective path and the one that preserves the commercial relationship.
We assess every risk along two axes: the likelihood of its occurrence and the impact it would have if it materialises. High-likelihood, high-impact risks are addressed first, while lower-priority ones are placed under monitoring. This approach lets you direct your resources towards the measures that make the greatest difference.
A contract risk map is an assessment that scans your existing contract portfolio and brings together into a single view the risky provisions, term and termination pitfalls, unbalanced liability clauses, and collection risks. This map clearly sets out which contracts require priority attention and where your position is solid.
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