Foreign Investment, Corporate Transactions, M&A, Tax Law & Litigation Law Firm in Turkey

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Law Firm Overview

ADMD - Mavioglu & Alkan is a boutique law firm serving commercial businesses, financial institutions, as well as private individuals in every area of law. ADMD is preferred by clients having sophisticated corporate and financial transactions and complex dispute resolution proceedings that require attentive and scrupulous approach.

Mavioglu & Alkan Law Office was founded in Istanbul at 2004. Orhan Yavuz Mavioglu joined in to form ADMD in 2005. ADMD has been serving as an analytical, diligent, meticulous and dynamic law firm providing corporate and private consulting and litigation services in Turkey since its creation.

Along with their proficient command of English, all four partners of ADMD have worked in international consulting and accounting firms previously in their career. This makes ADMD more competent to aid foreign clients in accomplishing their objectives effectively, not only with the depth and scope of its legal services, but also with the understanding of economic and political environment in an emerging country such as Turkey.

ADMD combines the attentiveness of a private legal practice with the professionalism of international consultancy to offer its clients the best service that they deserve.

In addition to its main office in Istanbul; ADMD Law has five correspondent offices around Turkey in the cities of Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Bursa and Izmir.

Year this Office was Established: 2004

Languages: English and Turkish.

Areas of Law

Areas of Law Description

ADMD's diversified practice enables it to offer solutions to the most challenging legal issues of commercial businesses and individuals. We provide various kinds of services to our clients such as general legal counseling, corporate and litigation services.

Our services are not limited by but can be categorized under the following topics:

Services to Businesses

- Administrative Law

Litigation of unlimited jurisdiction and annulment of administrative proceedings against administrative sanctions before administrative courts and Council of State, objections against Public Procurement Agency’s decisions and settlement for disputes, objections against development and housing process and execution of juridical procedures.

- Asset Finance

Our firm has extensive experience in various aspects of lease financing. Services that ADMD offers to its clients in this area include advising and counseling regarding structuring lease financing transactions, including tax, accounting etc., advising and counseling regarding credit risks of lease financing.

- Bankruptcy & Insolvency

ADMD Law Office provides legal services concerning the following issues; execution proceedings, denial of signature and debt, notice of bankruptcy, stay of bankruptcy, notice of composition, action for recovery of title, lien and denial of lien, contracts to get out of debt and refund of the money paid.

- Construction and Engineering

ADMD Law Firm provides services for the solution of disputes concerning contractors, subcontractors and outsourced issues as well as arranging legal requirements for complex real estate projects.

- Contracts

ADMD Law Office provides services with strict client confidentiality in these aspects; Loan Agreements, Real Property Transfer Agreements, Share Transfer Agreements, Merger Contracts, Investment Agreements, Leasing Agreements, Know-How , Debt Restructuring Agreements, Joint Venture Agreements, Security Agreements, company incorporations and drafting Articles of Associations of such companies.

- Customs Law

International purchase and sale contracts, international manners of delivery and payment, international transportation, foreign currency operations of cost, export purchases and sales, investment incentive regime, settlement of disputes concerning customs duty, exemptions and all kinds of counseling services in the scope of Customs Law along with representation before administration of customs offices.

- Derivatives

Derivatives, the investment instruments excluding share certificates, are not quite preferable in our country. Consultancy services are available for our clients who request support regarding such issues.

- Energy Law

We provide consulting services especially regarding electricity, natural gas and oil market, energy arrangements and investments. We also submit legal opinions concerning energy law.

- Financial Institutions

ADMD Law Firm provides advice to companies and individuals on a broad range of banking law questions for their challenging transactions and assignments. We have dealt with a wide variety of financial claims such as bank operations, creditor's rights, consumer credits, directors and officers' liability, financial institutions as trustees, guaranties, intercreditor disputes, and legality of banking practices and procedures, lender liability, provisional remedies, commercial law. ADMD Law Firm provides to their clients on delivering high quality legal services in a timely manner.

- Franchise Services

We provide franchising, master franchising, sub franchising and other related contract services for companies as well as drafting and revising of such contracts of international franchise brand marks.

- Health Law

We provide services regarding resolution of disagreements resulting from doctor-patient relationship, handling negligent and deliberate offense in respect of criminal law.

- Intellectual Property

We provide services for brand mark, patent, copyrights and industrial design subjects.

- Internet Law

We provide services to our clients concerning internet publishing, electronic commerce, intellectual property, individual rights and resolution of disagreements resulting from internet issues.

- Labor Law

Regulation of relations between employers and employees, preparation of labor contracts, settlement for disputes arising from employments and misemployments, litigations and disagreements regarding occupational accidents are some of the services that we provide to our clients within the scope of Labor Law.

- Litigation

Considering the rights and obligations peculiar to commercial companies are constantly being reformed along with the legislation amendments within the EU Adjustment Program, our office provides litigation services to its corporate clients concerning all kinds of disaccords such as liquidation, annulment of general meeting, shareholders’ liabilities, checks and bond litigations and labor litigations.

- Privatization

ADMD Law Firm advises international investors, financial advisers and Turkish government agencies on major privatization projects in Turkey including all areas. ADMD has a team equipped to advise on all aspects of privatization transactions, from structuring due diligence to closing.

- Restructuring

Our office provides consultancy services such as adapting to international developments, determining strategies in the process of corporate life, adapting to innovations of legal modifications.

- Sports Law

ADMD Law Office provides services with strict client confidentiality in finding solutions to the problems of individuals and legal entities, public and private persons. Some of these services are; regulation of social security and labor law through aspects of sportive activities and relations, intensity in sports, doping, resolution of issues which are in the scope of criminal law, sportsmen’s rights and obligations etc.

- Venture Capital

Venture capitals, in other words risk capitals, could be defined as meeting of companies in search of capital or entrepreneurs with new ideas with open-minded investors who could invest their capital to such entrepreneurs and who are “ready to take risks”. At this stage, the services that our office provides to its clients are execution of legal arrangements that would be supportive for aforementioned accretion, fulfillment of jural phases and following of the legal procedures in the scope of Capital Markets Law.

- Advertising Law

Justification of advertisements, auditing of contents of such advertisements, solving disputes concerning copyright and avoiding unfair competition could be the examples for the services that ADMD provides.

- Antitrust Law

We offer compatible solutions to needs and expectations of our clients concerning the lawsuits of prevention of unfair competition, grating block exemptions, vertical and horizontal contracts and anti-dumping investigations.

- Banking Law

Our office provides fulfillment of legal procedures concerning credit, leasing, mortgage agreements and all businesses to be transacted with banks, to its clients who demand service procurement regarding Turkish Banking Law which is a progressing field through innovated legislations.

- Capital Markets

Capital Markets Board is the authority that provides decisive and secure environment to capital markets as it protects benefits of investors (savers). We provide services to our investor clients concerning the legal modifications such as investment funds, public offerings and prohibition from executing transactions.

- Consumer Protection

Within the scope of legal regulations concerning Consumer Protection which has been developing particularly in recent years, our office enlightens our clients regarding the renovations and represents its clients before consumer courts.

- Corporate Finance

In recent years enterprises are expanding their business to greater scales, producing a great variety of products and releasing them to numerous markets, they attach more importance to research and development activities, the competition is escalating and the exchange rate is fluctuating. In view of these economic developments, to be able to provide quick decision to enterprises and to inform such enterprises concerning juridical risks, our office furnishes legal consultancy.

- Employee Benefits

Our office provides legal consultancy services for its employee or employer clients in case they incur issues of labor law that are entitled to indemnification such as discharging, occupational accidents etc.

- Environmental Law

Our firm provides services especially to companies that operate in chemical waste field regarding production issues that shall be executed in accordance with the Environmental legislation and its regulations and disputes relevant to Environmental Law.

- Execution & Enforcement

Initiation of enforcement proceedings before Enforcement Offices, lawsuits for cancellation of objection, lawsuits for the establishment of a negative fact, initiation of proceedings peculiar to bills of exchange, initiation of proceedings by Liquidation of Mortgage, to initiate enforcement proceedings by liquidation of pledge, prosecutions concerning related proceedings.

- Foreign Investment

Our office provides consultancy of international standards, to its foreign clients concerning the investments, company establishments and all other kinds of commercial transactions that are performed in Turkey.

- Government Relations

We provide services such as management of bureaucratic transactions, informing concerning administrative applications, submitting and proceeding of such applications.

- Insurance Law

ADMD Law Office provides consultancy services concerning insurance law. Beyond these services health insurance, retirement insurance, accident insurance and all other insurance types are the services that are provided by our law firm.

- International Law

International Law takes an important role for resolving challenges that citizens or companies of foreign countries experience. Subjects such as determination of the approach to individuals’ or companies’ legal problems in order to resolve it, designation of the answer to which country’s law shall be applied, execution and acknowledgment of foreign decisions in Turkey compose international law area. We provide services to our clients concerning the scope of contracts signed by Turkey with other countries.

- Investment Management & Funds

Our lawyers provide information, bring a lawsuit in case of disputes and submit legal opinions to investors as they face problems when they purchase and manage capital market instruments such as shares and funds.

- Lease Financing

Our office provides services to its clients regarding leasing proceedings and applications and related follow-ups.

- Mergers & Acquisitions

Tradition of M&A’s in Turkish corporate life is considerably new. Our office provides various legal services to local and international clients regarding their targeted acquisitions or mergers. Due diligence services for the subject entities, drafting and executing contracts, company resolutions and meetings, applications for clearances from Competition Authority and/or other relevant independent administrative authority or agencies, tax and financing structural planning could be listed among these services provided to our clients.

- Real Estate

We provide solutions for conflicts concerning annulment of land registry, registration and renumeration suits, mortgage establishment, and liquidation of mortgage as well as disputes regarding beneficial ownership, rights of access, real rights. We also furnish services to our clients in the following subjects; construction in return for flat contracts, contractual disputes of lease and penalty clauses, construction servitude and condominium, title annulment and registration suits, mortgage controversies and expropriation litigations.

- Securities

ADMD Law Firm provides counseling for its clients concerning numerous subjects such as financial transactions, real estate finance, project finance, leasing and Initial Public Offering (IPO).

- Telecommunications Law

Our office provides support to its clients in all kinds of possible legal problems and disputes in telecommunication area which is expeditiously developing and also provides counseling for numerous subjects such as internet law, software license, and copyrights.

Services to Individuals

- Administrative Law

Litigation of unlimited jurisdiction and annulment of administrative proceedings against administrative sanctions before administrative courts and Council of State, objections against Public Procurement Agency’s decisions and settlement for disputes, objections against development and housing process and execution of juridical procedures.

- Execution & Enforcement

Initiation of enforcement proceedings before Enforcement Offices, lawsuits for cancellation of objection, lawsuits for the establishment of a negative fact, initiation of proceedings peculiar to bills of exchange, initiation of proceedings by Liquidation of Mortgage, to initiate enforcement proceedings by liquidation of pledge, prosecutions concerning related proceedings.

- Litigation

Considering the rights and obligations peculiar to commercial companies are constantly being reformed along with the legislation amendments within the EU Adjustment Program, our office provides litigation services to its corporate clients concerning all kinds of disaccords such as liquidation, annulment of general meeting, shareholders’ liabilities, checks and bond litigations and labor litigations.

- Wills & Estates

Our office processes its clients’ legal transactions such as arrangement of wills, inheritance transactions, estate actions, preparation of inheritance contracts, refusal of inheritance.

- Criminal Law

Our office provides legal services such as vindication of rights, denunciation against unjust treatment, right of audience, aerostation, declaration of testimony, representation in trials at criminal courts to individuals as part of adapted constitution and litigations in the field of Criminal Law.

- General Legal Counseling

Considering that law is pertinent with every field and moment of human life, we provide general legal counseling services to our clients that requests information concerning our fields of activity. Especially, drafts analyzes of contracts, marital property, social rights, employee rights in respect of Labor Code, ground for divorce, indemnification and fault in traffic accidents shall be stated as some of our services.

- Tax Controversy & Litigation

Our office provides services to our clients in all tax conflicts and litigations of tax legislation such as disagreements concerning income tax and corporation taxes, revocatory actions, tax exemption.

Lawyers

Ms. Duygu Alkan Lawyer Civil Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Consumer Law, Corporate Law, Corporate Litigation

Mr. Orhan Y. Mavioglu Lawyer Alternative Dispute Resolution, Arbitration, Business Law, Commercial Law, Corporate Law

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