Debt Collection, Family Law, Company Law, Criminal Law, Intellectual Property Law, Contract Law

Odaman & Taskin Law Office

Mevlana Cad. Tercüman Sitesi A3 Blok
Kat:10 D:43 Cevizlibag
Istanbul 34015
Turkey

 +90 212 5101646
 +90 212 5106681

www.odaman-taskin.com
 Contact Mr.Mehmet Ali TAŞKIN

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Odaman & Taskin Law Office is a leading law office based in Istanbul, Turkey. The firm was established in 2001. Our practice areas include: Family Law, Company Law, Litigation, Criminal Law, Internet Law, Conveyancing, Maritime Law, Real Estate Matters, Intellectual Property, International Trade, Custom Law, Contracts Law, Government Relations, Medicine and Health Law, Construction Law, Tax Law, Labour Law and Debt Collection. With our extensive experience in these fields, we seek to provide a level of service that is professional, responsive and second-to-none in the industry.

Our partners have a minimum of 10 years professional experience as lawyers in Turkey.

Members of our legal firm are collectively fluent in various languages, including Turkish, English and German.

Languages: English, Deutsch, and Turkish.

Practice Areas

Additional Practice Areas: Debt Collection; Consumer Protection Law; Private Law; Execution and Enforcement Law.

Practice Areas Description

Our practice areas include, but not limited to the following:

- Debt Collection

Odaman & Taskin do handle all kind of confiscation processes in Turkey for its foreign company clients as well as its Turkish company clients. By doing so Odaman & Taskin shows zero tolerance for all sort of legal mistakes. During every confiscation processes Odaman & Taskin uses its extensive legal expertise to give the best possible and cost effective services to its clients. Very briefly; In Turkey, process of collecting debts are managed via execution offices. Being unsimilarly from continental European approach , here in Turkey collecting debts either can be handled by creditors themselves or lawyers. According to Turkish confiscation Law it is possible to go to legal execution offices for each and every credit items.

- Company Law

When it comes to Company Law, Odaman & Taskin Law Office has particularly specialized in: Company Set Up Procedures in Turkey; Shareholders' General Assembly and Relating Cases; Mergers and Acquisitions; Turkish Equity Market Procedures; Leasing and Franchising Procedures in Turkey; Unfair Competition Cases; All Kind of Bankruptcy Procedures in Turkey; Tax Related Investment Cases; Reviewing and Preparing International Contracts.

Throughout more than 15 years, we also have had a huge experience on the following subjects: We have helped a number of global companies -clients- to initiate their own businesses in Turkey. They are now able to compete in the very promising Turkish market with their rivals. Our law office’s lawyers have a distinctive reputation as tough litigators and will continuously pursue our client’s rights through the courts. Also we protect their rights against the government agencies with great deal of legal expertise in this field. We provide tailored legal services to our clients in order for them to be able to grow their businesses as much as possible in this emerging market. We also provide services related to Turkish employment law. Our clients get benefits from our extensive employment and labor law knowledge through our special legal team dedicated their time only to this particular field.

- Family Law

In that regard we do handle cases such as:

•Divorce litigations, separation litigations, subsistence litigations, guardianship litigations, damages litigations;
•Relationships which encompass adoption, child custody, visitation rights, domestic violence, divorce, juvenile dependency and delinquency, marital property rights, support obligations, and paternity;
•Preparing marriage settlements and all kind of cases regarding disputes over the marriage settlement;
•Family protection cases;
•Recognition and enforcement process for any sort of family law cases (divorce litigations, separation litigations, subsistence litigations, guardianship litigations, damages litigations etc.)
Note : Foreign court decisions in order to be enforced in Turkish Republic must be recognized by a Turkish Court.

- Intellectual and Industrial Properties

Intellectual & industrial properties are the integral part of legal, economic, social and cultural development of the countries. Therefore intellectual & industrial property rights also became the integral element of commercial administrations as they contain an economic value.

Intellectual & industrial property which are formed by trademarks, patents, utility models and industrial designs has became as an important tool of technological and economic development of the countries. During the globalization of trade throughout the world the developing countries has also started to have benefits of this tool for their developments as well as the developed countries.

Intellectual & industrial property is an important tool for becoming an industrialized country. Intellectual & industrial property which is a value at both in Turkey and in the world is also a value for companies which has to be legally protected in local and global terms.

- Trademark

World Intellectual Property Organization WIPO Defines Trademark As: “A trademark is a distinctive sign which identifies certain goods on services or provided by a specific person or enterprise.” It is a very strong bridge between the producer and the consumer. Trademark is a commercial requirement to reach the consumers and to promote the sale of goods.

- Patent

World Intellectual Property Organization WIPO Defines Patent As: “A patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention, which is a product or process that provides a new way of doing something, or offers a new technical solution to a problem.” The Protection Of Patent : An invention must, in general, fulfill the following conditions to be protected by a patent. It must be of practical use; it must show an element of novelty, that is, some new characteristic which is not known in the body of existing knowledge in its technical field. It provides 20 years of protection in the system of inspection and 7 years in the uninspectioned system.

- Industrial Design

World Intellectual Property Organization WIPO Defines Industrial Design As: “An industrial design is the ornamental or aesthetic aspect of an article. The design may consist of three-dimensional features, such as the shape or surface of an article, or of two-dimensional features, such as patterns, lines or color.”

- Internet Law

As Odaman & Taskin Law Office, we have specialized particularly on:

•Solving electronic trade disputes
•Preparing e-contracts
•Internet crime (e-crimes) cases
•Protecting all sort of intellectual property rights on the Internet
•Protecting privacy rights on the NET
•Protecting publishing rights on the Internet
•Solving domain right disputes

With over 10 years experience we have many to offer to our clients in this field.

- Criminal Law

In that regard we do handle cases like:
•Foreign people who have committed a crime in Turkey (including all the Turkish criminal law procedures)
•Turkish citizens who have committed a crime in a foreign country ( including the process of extradition)
•International organize crimes (including all their legal procedures)
•Recognition and enforcement process for any kind of criminal cases.
•All sort of fiscal offenses, drug offenses and organize crimes.

Affiliations

Lawyers

	Mr. Esat Alp Demirkaya Lawyer Advertising, Banking Law, Bankruptcy, Competition Law, Computer and Software		Mrs. Gülcan Odaman Lawyer Accident, Assault, Bankruptcy, Battery, Bribery
	Mrs. Zümbül Odaman Taskin Lawyer Accident, Administrative Law, Adoption, Agency and Distributorship, Alimony		Mr. Mehmet Ali Taskin Managing Lawyer Admiralty and Maritime, Adoption, Alimony, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Arbitration

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