Administrative Law

We provide legal assistance on any type of annulment and full remedy actions that are being held in the field of administrative law. In addition to handling with legal disputes which have been brought before judicial authorities, we also represent our clients before all kinds of administrative authorities, keep abreast of the latest developments regarding declaration, enactments and guidelines etc. and make a risk assessment regarding the current legislation. We also provide legal consultancy in the fields of insurance, media and advertisement, medical law and cyber-law.

Capital Markets Law

We provide due diligence services and conduct procedures of going public and within this scope, apply before the related authorities to obtain required permissions. Our attorneys represent and defend the clients before the Capital Markets Board and advise them for any legal queries associated with capital market issues.

Commercial Law

Commercial law is one of the primary branches of law that we mainly focus on since the majority of our clients are corporations. With our highly qualified attorneys, we assist our clients on negotiation ad drafting of supply contracts, managing current account relationships, dispute resolution for the matters related to unfair competition and commercial relationships.

Competition Law

Ozay Law Firm provides legal support to its clients with the experience and dynamism required by competition law by following the current changes in the legislation. In our competition law practice, in addition to the legal consultancy service we provide on issues such as mergers and acquisitions, abuse of dominant position and restrictive competition practices, we carry out the processes regarding applications to the Competition Authority and the permissions to be obtained from the Competition Authority. We also support the preliminary research and investigation processes conducted by the Competition Authority. Our team of lawyers, who know the retail industry very well, they make a difference with their business-oriented perspective as well as their high-quality legal support.

Consumer Law

As the majority of our Clients operates in retail sector, Consumer Law is one of our primary areas of specialization. We have a deep practise and expertise on consumer law by having more than a thousand case files related to consumer disputes. We are particularly handling the proceedings before Arbitration Committee for Consumer Problems, resolution of consumer disputes before the Courts by following up-to-date legislation and precedents and offer creative solutions the in favour of our clients. Our attorneys have comprehensive knowledge of the consumer law legislation and advise the clients on various matters including but not limited to interpretation of the legislation, execution of preventive law to avoid disputes to emerge.

Contracts Law

In addition to dispute resolution services, Özay law firm also provides services for negotiation and draft of contracts in order to avoid disputes to emerge. The contracts are negotiated, drafted and revised with sectorial insight and business-oriented point of view in which the clients’ benefits are protected in ultimate manner. We principally focus on supply contracts, service and consultancy contracts, confidentiality contracts, share transfer agreements, joint venture agreements, real estate sales and promise to sell agreements.

Corporate Law

We provide business-oriented legal advice for our clients which are local and foreign companies engaging in the activities in various sectors, particularly retail and real-estate sector, for day-to-day business matters and wide range of commercial transactions. Within this scope, we assist our clients in incorporation of companies, drafting articles of association, organising general meetings of companies, drafting resolution of board of directors and related corporate texts, dealing with capital increase and decrease transactions and liquidation procedure.

Criminal Law

Depending on the areas that our clients operate, we provide legal assistance on enquiry and prosecution matters that are being held before the prosecution authorities and criminal courts.

Within this scope, we provide peer to peer communication to our clients on the fields that they operate which fall into the scope of criminal regulations, including the processes before police departments, prosecution authorities and courts, especially fraud transactions, misuse of bank/credit carts and abuse of confidence.

Cyberlaw

We offer various consultancy models in cyberlaw in the aim of finding to the increasing legal questions regarding the reflection of the innovations brought by the rapidly digitalizing world to business processes. We provide consultancy services in all areas of information technology law, especially the establishment of payment system structures, compliance with the legislation on the protection of personal data and auditing projects, GDPR compliance, creation of e-commerce sites content, electronic communication, commercial electronic message delivery and Message Management System (MMS) registration, tracking corporate correspondence and investigation stages in cases of data breach and cyber crimes, access blocking; and trainings are provided on the legal infrastructure of innovative developments such as virtual money, smart contracts, blockchain technology, and artificial intelligence. Our legal consultancy service is enriched by our consultants specialized in technical and academic fields, and legislation development studies are carried out through associations regarding sectoral expertise.

Energy Law

Ozay law firms offers consultancy and litigation services in the field of Energy Law in resolving the disputes between the companies operating in the electricity, natural gas, oil market and their clients, the purchase and sale of electricity, project development, the supply of licenses and certificate of titles, the preparation of contracts for the distribution and sale of electricity production, energy projects and problems that may arise from the legislation of EMRA in these projects.

 

Execution and Enforcement Law

Our team of execution and enforcement law is composed of the attorneys and paralegals that are specialised in persuasion and easily collect debts by target-oriented working principle. We protect our clients’ interests for the execution proceedings which are launched either in favour of our clients or against them and also for the elimination of attachment risk. We have considerable practice in execution and enforcement law by having more than two thousand pending court actions.

Intellectual Property Law

Our attorneys in intellectual property team hold trademark attorney title and handle with informing the clients on their intellectual property rights, drafting contracts on assignment of intellectual property rights, filing applications before the Turkish Patent Institute, follow opposition procedures and representing clients before the Institute and provide dispute resolution services on trademark, patent, industrial design, unfair competition, trade secret and so forth either before the Courts or via settlement.

Insurance Law

We provide consultancy and litigation services on insurance law to our client companies. In this regard, we perform risk assessment before incurrence of damage in order to protect best interests of clients. We assist insurance companies and present effective and immediate solutions for any kinds of disputes related to insurance law.

Labour and Social Security Law

We provide legal services for every aspects of labour and social security law to our local and foreign clients. We have considerable expertise in litigation matters with regards to re-employment, compensation of severance and notice payments, non-compete clause imposed on the employers, confidentiality of trade secrets, duty of loyalty, occupational accidents and competence of unions.

Our service as to the labour and social security is not limited with the dispute resolution but also includes drafting labour contracts, managing procedures of determination of union’s competence, participating in negotiations of collective bargaining agreements, assisting in procedures of work permit for foreign employers. In addition, we also organise trainings and seminars related to labour law for senior managers of client companies.

Mergers and Acquisitions

We represent our clients during the procedure of mergers and acquisitions from the process of signing of the letter of intent until the execution of closing. Within this scope we provide services related to due diligence, preparation of reports, risk assessment, drafting and revision of the contracts, obtaining permissions of Capital Markets Board and Competition Board for mergers and acquisitions, as well as representation of the clients during the negotiations.

Litigation – Dispute Resolution

Our litigation and dispute resolution expertise cover all branches of law by having more than 2500 pending court actions. We represent and defend our clients before any kind of courts all over Turkey, submit petitions and collect evidence to strengthen our arguments during the trials. We provide all kinds of services related to dispute resolution from settlement and conciliation negotiations to completing the settlement and conciliation procedure.

Real Estate Law

We have a vast business volume in the field of real estate law and assist our clients in construction projects, transfer and lease transactions. Our real estate team provides services for every aspect of real estate law, including but not limited to compliance with construction legislation, creating management plans, obtaining permits and licences, negotiation of and drafting real estate contracts such as promise to sell agreements and construction in return for flat agreements and conducting all related transactions and procedures before the land registry.