Legal guidance for technology startups, from formation to scaling.
Startup advisory guides LegalTech and technology startups through formation, funding rounds, intellectual property, and data compliance. At the pace your product grows, we structure regulation and compliance alongside it.
Build a solid legal foundation as you scale your product
Technology startups move fast; yet decisions taken early — on investment, intellectual property and data — become costly if they are wrong in later rounds and during scaling. A legal foundation established at the right time accelerates growth rather than slowing it down.
With our LegalTech practice and commercial law experience, we accompany startups from incorporation through scaling. From share structure to funding rounds, from product regulation to data compliance, we shape decisions in a practicable way by understanding the reality of your product.
When Does This Apply?
Typical situations our startup advisory service guides you through.
Incorporation & Share Structure
A clean, investment-ready start with the right company type, founder agreements, and share structure.
Funding Round
Representation that safeguards the startup's interests in term sheets, legal due diligence, and investment agreements.
Regulation & Compliance
The regulations the product is subject to, data and platform compliance, and protection of intellectual property rights.
How Does the Process Work?
A three-stage approach we tailor to the startup's life stages.
01 · Incorporation & Structure
We put the foundations in place: company incorporation, founder and share agreements, and the assignment of intellectual property to the company.
02 · Growth & Investment
We prepare you for due diligence in funding rounds and negotiate term sheets and agreements in the startup's favour.
03 · Scaling & Compliance
As you move into new markets and product steps, we update regulatory and data compliance in step with growth.
An advisor who speaks both technology and commercial law
Startup advisory is not merely drafting contracts; it is anticipating legal risk by understanding the product, the business model, and the growth plan. With our LegalTech practice, we speak the language of technology startups and keep decisions practicable.
- A close perspective on technology startups through our LegalTech practice
- End-to-end support from incorporation to funding round
- Sound structuring and protection of intellectual property
- Data and platform compliance under KVKK and GDPR
- Cross-border growth experience on the Türkiye–DACH corridor
Other Legal Tech Services
When needed, the same team can seamlessly extend its work to our other solutions in this area.
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Our Matters in 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.
Related Publications
Fresh perspectives and guides from the Knowledge Centre.
For start-ups planning to raise investment, the joint-stock company is the most workable structure in practice. Investors prefer it because share transfers are free and straightforward, because privileged shares and an option pool (ESOP) can be set up, and because corporate records such as the share ledger can be kept in proper order.Both joint-stock and limited liability companies are governed by the Turkish Commer…
The control and distribution clauses matter as much as the valuation, and sometimes more. The main ones are the liquidation preference, anti-dilution protection, investor veto and affirmative voting rights, the composition of the board, restrictions on the transfer of founder shares and their vesting, rights of first refusal and tag-along and drag-along rights — and whose stake the option pool is carved out of.A ter…
You find out early by running a short regulatory scan that sets your business model against the legislative map. The scan shows which regulatory regimes actually engage: if personal data is processed, the Personal Data Protection Law (No. 6698) and, for the EU market, the GDPR; if there is a payments, credit or crypto dimension, financial regulation and its licensing regimes; and in sectors such as health, food and…
First, we ensure that rights such as code, trademarks, and designs vest in the company rather than in the founders and employees. We establish the chain of assignment and confidentiality through contracts and, where appropriate, consider protection routes such as trademark and design registration.
At the earliest possible stage. When matters such as the type of incorporation, founder shares, and the transfer of intellectual property to the company are structured correctly from the outset, later funding rounds and scaling proceed far more smoothly. Correcting missteps taken early on is more costly afterward.
For products that process personal data, compliance with the KVKK/Law No. 6698 (Turkish Personal Data Protection Law) and GDPR comes to the fore, along with privacy notices, explicit consent, data processing agreements and cross-border transfer rules. If the product operates in a regulated field, we also assess the relevant sector-specific regulations together with these.
Yes. As a team operating along the Türkiye–Germany, Austria, and Switzerland corridor, we provide multilingual support for cross-border incorporation and growth processes. We focus on building a workable structure that takes into account the legal requirements of both sides.
We review the term sheet, prepare for the due diligence process, and negotiate the investment agreements with the startup's interests in mind. The goal is to establish a balanced structure that, while accessing capital, preserves the founders' control and keeps the way open for future rounds.
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