Corporate, Tax and Litigation Law Firm in Istanbul, Turkey
ADMD Law Office
Yazgülü Sokak Villa No:2C, Besiktas
Istanbul 34340
Turkey
+90 (212) 269-5661
+90 (212) 269-5669
www.admdlaw.com
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Law Firm Overview
The ADMD Law Office serves businesses, corporations, investors, and individuals of all shapes and sizes with an internationally-recognized team of seasoned lawyers, each an expert in both the legal minutiae of tax and corporate law and litigation as well as the complexity of corporate accounting and consulting. The firm has grown by leaps and bounds since its inception in 2004, quickly earning a notable clientele spanning fledgling businesses to global corporations worth several billion dollars, each of whom has continued to seek the firm's services and counsel in Turkey's rapidly expanding market.Lawyers Orhan Mavioglu and Duygu Alkan have worked and studied in Turkey for decades, and they combine a unique knowledge of the Turkish economy with several years of representing banks, corporations, and investors in both litigation and arbitration. The firm's Istanbul office has become particularly known for its tax services among both foreign investors and media outlets throughout Europe, an expertise in which Mavioglu's particular habits of lengthy and diligent study have come to fruition. The firm's corporate expertise, although far better known, is matched by a full spectrum of legal services to families and individuals throughout Turkey, practices which have quickly grown ADMD's internal reputation to match the honored name it holds among investors worldwide.
Working and investing in Turkey requires a seasoned expertise, but shouldn't be handed off to the impersonal processes of larger and less attentive firms. The ADMD Law Office has given many years of dedicated service to families, individuals, and businesses in and out of the country, providing each client with the focus and value only a boutique firm can provide, without losing an ounce of legal effectiveness.
Year this Office was Established: 2004
Languages: Turkish, English
Areas of Law
Additional Areas of Law: Antidumping; Trading Services; Maintenance Services; Document Services; Execution & Enforcement Services; Government Relations Services; Leasing Services; Restructuring Services; Succession; Tax Controversy; Work & Residence Permit Services; Debt Recovery & Collection Services; Expert Opinions on Turkish Law; Hotel Licensing & Operation Services; Investment Management & Services to Funds; Logistics & Transport Law; Marriage; Regulatory Services & Independent Agencies; Foreign Investment.
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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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”.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Real Estate
We provide solutions for conflicts concerning annulment of land registry, registration and remuneration suits, mortgage establishment, and liquidation of mortgage as well as disputes regarding beneficial ownership, rights of access, real rights.
- 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.
- 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.
Partners
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Ms. Duygu Alkan
Partner Civil Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Consumer Law, Corporate Law, Corporate Litigation |
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Mr. Orhan Y. Mavioglu
Partner Alternative Dispute Resolution, Arbitration, Business Law, Commercial Law, Corporate Law |
Affiliations
- Istanbul Bar Association
- Turkish Patent Institute and European Patent Organization
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