Our Services
Dede Hukuk is an international law firm that serves companies and financial institutions. Our long history as a global firm means we are uniquely placed to help our clients resolve their most complex legal challenges wherever they are.
- Antitrust&Competition Law
- Arbitration
- Rental
- Loan Agreements
- Company Financing
- Property and Project Financing
- Structural Finance
- International Trade Finance
- Investing and applying security benefits
- Islamic Finance Law
- Corporate Finance
- Capital Markets
- Company Financing
- Issuance of asset-backed securities
- Asset Financing
- Structured Financing
- Banking and Finance Law
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and ICO Technologies
- Compliance
- Consumer Law
- Corporate Law
- E-Commerce Law
- Preparing contract and risk analysis reports specific to the business model they want to implement,
- Preparing all kinds of documents and documents necessary for obtaining an operating license in accordance with the provisions of the relevant legislation,
- Providing legal consultancy services for service providers and providers,
- Follow-up and conclusion of possible violations.
- Electronic-money and Payment Services
- Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law
- Copyright
- Prevention of misuse of trade secrets
- Providing consultancy services on intellectual property rights in mergers and acquisitions
- National and international research, registration, protection and transfer of trademarks, patents, industrial designs and utility models
- Providing consultancy services on trademark, patent, industrial design and utility model rights and following up the cases arising from disputes
- Preparation of license agreements and consultancy services in licensing/acquiring negotiations.
- Intellectual Property Law
- Follow-up of foreign receivables originating from exports and imports
- Execution and execution of judicial decisions in foreign countries
- Providing consultancy services in the preparation of export documents
- Providing consultancy services to companies regarding investment incentives
- Resolution of disputes arising from customs procedures
- Preparation of defenses against practices regarding the prevention of unfair competition in imports
- Resolution of conflicts encountered in free zones
- Resolution of disputes regarding customs clearance, transportation, insurance and delivery of imported or exported products.
- International Commercial Disputes
- Anti-dumping investigations opened at home and abroad
- Subsidy investigations opened at home and abroad
- Safeguard investigations
- Surveillance application applications
- Applications for suspension, quota and tariff quota
- Preparation of reports on changing legislation and practices
- Trade policy consultancy
- International Trade
- Following the latest developments in the field of Information Technologies law
- Providing specific legal solutions in the fields of Information Technologies
- Follow-up of transactions within the scope of licensing, protection of intellectual property rights, registration and registration,
- Providing legal risk analysis, contract consultancy and general legal consultancy services in order to ensure that they can carry out legally problem-free business processes, and providing consultancy services mainly on information law, trademark and copyrights, disputes arising from domain names, dealer relations.
- Providing consultancy services to internet content provider and hosting provider
- Providing legal consultancy services for companies selling goods and services over the Internet and preparing the legal infrastructure
- Follow-up and conclusion of violations that occur via the Internet
- Providing legal consultancy services for e-commerce and e-signature applications.
- IT Law
- Drafting and negotiating collective bargaining agreements
- Termination of the contract and settlement of dismissal issues through amicable or litigation
- Providing consultancy on criminal and legal responsibilities related to work accidents and diseases and fulfillment of obligations
- Ensuring the compliance of the working environments with the legislation in force, especially in terms of health and safety
- Updating and/or rearranging employment contracts and related procedures in the light of Supreme Court practice.
- Preparation of minutes, defense request letters, warning and termination notices specific to each concrete situation.
- Providing training services regarding obligations arising from the Labor Law, Social Insurance Law and Unemployment Insurance Law
- Resolution of disputes related to union activities
- Labor and Social Security Law
- Employer-employer disputes
- Debt liquidation negotiations between debtor or creditor clients and the other party and signing the peace agreements made into a protocol
- Resolution of disputes arising from banks' loan agreements Mortgage, pledge transactions, removal
- Compensation and receivables arising from copyrights
- Resolving the material-moral compensation dispute
- Rental receivable
- Share transfer
- Contractual disputes
- Inheritance division
- Dissolution of the partnership
- Evacuation
- Deed cancellation and registration
- Leaving the commercial partnership
- Dispute arising from consumer law
- Ecrimisil - Prevention of unfair confiscation - reinstatement
- Mediation and Dispute Resolution
- Mergers and Acquistions
- Determination and analysis of the obligations of the clients within the scope of PDP,
- Providing the necessary cooperation with the IT departments during the creation of the data recording systems that the clients should use in order to fulfill the relevant obligations, and providing the necessary support in terms of harmonizing the currently used data recording systems with the obligations under the PDP,
- Preparing and/or revising the contracts that the clients have to conclude with their customers or business partners within the scope of PDP,
- Providing in-company awareness trainings to all relevant departments (law, HR, IT, marketing, public relations, etc.) within the Data Controller in order to ensure full compliance with the obligations under the PDP,
- Personal Data Protection
- Preparation of all standard documentation required for investment activities that will be designed specifically for the client,
- Revising contracts from third parties in case of co-investment or investing under another leading investor,
- Conducting due diligence that may be required during and before the relevant investment transactions, and
- Preparation, negotiation and revision of investment contracts and execution of closing processes.
- Venture Capital Investments Department
Antitrust&Competition Law
. Antitrust&Competition Law Disputes
. Antitrust&Competition Law Trainings
. Competition Law Compliance Projects
. Compliance and Risk Management
. Cartel Investigations
. Preliminary Research, Investigation and Dawn Raids
. Comliance&Audits
. Dominance/Monopolization
. Merger Control&Joint Ventures
. Litigation Processes
. Horizontal and Vertical Agreement Management and Control
Arbitration
Dede Law Firm has experience in the pursuit of all kinds of judicial and arbitration procedures at the national and international level. In the field of Litigation Arbitration and Dispute Resolution, our office provides litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution services in all branches of law, especially cases related to disputes arising from commercial contracts and the implementation of foreign arbitration decisions in Turkey.
Dede Law Firm offers effective solutions for lawsuits and events that can be resolved by agreement without resorting to legal remedies. Thanks to his cooperation with law firms in many countries of the world and membership of international professional organizations, he has achieved many peace agreements and resolved arbitration cases.
Banking and Finance Law
Dede Law Firm provides services in the field of Banking and Finance Law to a wide range of clients such as banks, financial institutions, leasing companies and borrowers. The Banking and Finance Law department provides a service that complements and encompasses its clients in the context of documentation, restructuring and instruments of financial packages, both nationally and internationally. Some of the services offered by Dede Hukuk in the field of Banking and Finance Law:
Consultancy service on the functioning, structure and organization of Banking Law and Finance/Credit institutions
Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and ICO Technologies
Dede Law Firm closely follows the rapidly increasing types of cryptocurrencies and tokens,
which we often hear under the name "Bitcoin", and the reflections of the "blockchain"
structure, which is the basic technology behind it, in the legal world. It is one of the few
offices that determines up-to-date and accurate information in this field and actively provides
consultancy services to its clients.
Dede Hukuk provides many services, including the necessary consultancy and infrastructure
for the establishment phases of crypto money exchanges, cold and hot wallet service
providers and crypto currency "currency bureaus".
However, it is one of the leading working groups that provides legal structuring support for
coin/token public offerings, in other words ICOs (initial coin offerings) with a universal
expression, whose application prevalence is still limited in our country. Practice in this field
also includes consulting during the preparation of the Whitgpapers of companies and
entities.
Dede Law also provides support to its clients in different sectors where blockchain technology is used and smart and secure contracts are the basis, in establishing the necessary legal infrastructure.
In this context, the following services, including but not limited to, are provided by our office to crypto money, blockchain and ICO investors:
• Preparation of all kinds of standard documentation (especially relevant parts of ICO whitepapers, disclaimers, etc.) that will be designed specifically for the client and required for related activities,
• Providing all the legal infrastructure from the establishment phase to the exchange operators and similar service providers for crypto money transfer.
• Managing ICO processes.
• Providing general legal advice to individual clients about the industry and developments.
• Participating in legislative work by informing the working groups on legislation in various institutions about the problems in implementation.
In addition to the above, Dede Law Firm is able to meet all legal needs of its clients from A to Z, which may be required after the necessary infrastructure is established, thanks to its structure that can provide services in all areas of law.
Compliance
1. Ethical Principles
2. General Data Protection Law
3. Competition Law
4. Trade Sanctions and Export Controls
5. Laundering of Crime Proceeds
6. Bribery and Corruption
7. Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism
Consumer Law
Dede Hukuk specializes in consumer law, especially in the automotive sector, and in all other sectors, it provides services in the resolution of the issues that fall within the scope of the Law on the Protection of the Consumer, the Code of Obligations, the Commercial Code, etc., and the disputed issues seen in the Consumer Arbitration Committee and Consumer Courts.
Some of the services provided by Dede in the field of Consumer Law are as follows:
• Purchase and Sale Agreements
• Keeping up-to-date of all legislation in the field of consumer law
• Transactions to be made before the Consumer Arbitration Committee
• To produce legal solutions against consumer complaints
• Settlement negotiations between the seller and the buyer, signing the protocol
• Resolution of disputes arising from defective goods or defective services
• Resolution of disputes in Consumer and Commercial Courts
Corporate Law
Dede Law Firm provides services to local and foreign clients, who are active in many fields, in the field of Company Law, in the entire process from the preparation and establishment of the articles of association of companies, to its termination and liquidation. It also provides advice and guidance on general corporate matters such as corporate governance, board meetings and board resolutions, and the rights and obligations of management and equity shareholders.
In this process, important structural changes such as capital increases, share transfers, company mergers and acquisitions, type changes, going public and restructuring are carried out within the company.
Dede Law Firm regularly advises its clients on the commercial arrangement they need in their daily activities. The services we provide to our Domestic and Foreign Clients range from reviewing standard contract samples to assisting in the writing and negotiation of complex business arrangements such as product development, manufacturing, marketing agreements, licensing agreements, service agreements, outsourcing agreements, non-compete agreements and dispute resolution agreements.
Some of the services provided in the field of Company Law:
• Corporate governance, board meetings and preparation of resolutions
• Holding company general assembly meetings
• Capital increases/reductions
• Consultancy within the scope of capital market legislation
• Prevention of unfair competition, non-compete agreements, marketing agreements, license agreements, service agreements, outsourcing agreements
• Consultancy within the scope of consumer legislation
• Negotiation with complex business arrangements such as dispute resolution
• Establishment of liaison offices
• Transactions related to public stocks and bonds
• Legal due diligence reporting
E-Commerce Law
Electronic trade; In recent years, it provides the opportunity to appeal to large masses of all kinds of products and services imaginable, faster and at a lower cost than traditional retail and physical sales operations. The e-commerce ecosystem, which has grown and developed with an exponential momentum in Turkey and all over the world, and its gigantic structure creates the need for many legal regulations.
Basically, "electronic commercial law", although there are some specific legislations, this concept is gathered under a single roof by the combination of many different disciplines. Intellectual Property Law, Personal Data Protection Law and regulations on data security, Competition Law, Consumer Law, Commercial Law within the framework of rights and obligations arising from contractual relations in general, and many more can be counted among these disciplines. This consolidated structure requires a careful follow-up process as it brings legal responsibilities related to rapidly changing and often very new and unprecedented regulations.
As Dede Law Firm E-commerce Law Working Team, regardless of whether our client is a service provider, marketplace owner, seller, social media influencer or any stakeholder in the e-commerce ecosystem in any other capacity; We provide them with reliable, transparent and full-fledged legal consultancy services, aiming to protect their maximum interests, so that they can properly handle and manage all legal risks they are involved in within the framework of their e-commerce activities.
Electronic-money and Payment Services
The remarkable increase in the use of non-cash payment methods and electronic money in the individual and corporate areas in our country has brought many domestic and foreign institutions operating in the fields of payment services and electronic money issuance, and it has become inevitable to establish the legal basis for these institutions. In this context, the Law No. 6493 on Payment and Securities Settlement Systems, Payment Services and Electronic Money Institutions in order to regulate the relations between service providers and service providers, to ensure trust in the sector among service providers, and to subject service providers to the permission and control of an authority. ) It was published in the Official Gazette dated 27.06.2013 and entered into force.
The law imposes many obligations on payment institutions and electronic money institutions, primarily on obtaining operating licenses, and on other issues related to their internal systems, information systems and activities. The Communiqué and Regulation issued in relation to the law determine the working and operating principles of payment systems, payment and electronic money institutions.
As Dede Law Firm, some of the services we provide to our clients in order to fully fulfill their obligations arising from the relevant legislation are as follows:
Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law
Dede Law Firm, in the field of Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law, conducts comprehensive research in order to follow up the receivables of its domestic and foreign clients in Turkey and to collect the problematic receivables as a result of this follow-up, in order to determine all the movable, real estate and rights and receivables of the third parties in the execution proceedings. Services in this field offer litigation in execution courts and general courts for the resolution of disputes between the creditor/debtor and third parties.
In addition, all the possibilities provided by the enforcement and bankruptcy law are used for the suspension and cancellation of the execution and bankruptcy proceedings initiated against the clients. In this context, filing negative clearance lawsuits on behalf of clients, representing the client in bankruptcy and postponement of bankruptcy cases, and following the restructuring of the clients' debts are among the main fields of activity.
Some of the other services provided by Dede Law Firm in the field of Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law:
• Execution and Follow-up Transactions Specific to Bills of Exchange,
• Follow-up Procedures with or without a Judgment,
• Objection to enforcement proceedings, cancellation and follow-up proceedings of enforcement proceedings,
• Annulment of objection, cancellation of objection, negative determination,
• Follow-up and Evacuation Transactions Regarding Rent Receivables,
• Bankruptcy and Proceedings, Bankruptcy Lawsuits,
• Mortgage, pledge transactions, placement and removal,
• Legal consultancy and advocacy services are provided in the field of all lawsuits and legal affairs and transactions arising from the Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law.
Intellectual Property Law
Dede Law Firm, The rapid spread of international trade in today's world has increased the necessity of domestic and foreign companies to protect the distinctive characteristics of their products and services. In this context, Intellectual Property Rights Law has developed rapidly in Turkey, and in this process, Dede Law Office provides services to its clients in all areas of intellectual property rights, including trademarks, patents, utility models, copyrights, designs, geographical indications and internet domain names.
In addition to all kinds of legal assistance services in the field of intellectual property, legal and criminal cases, representation in arbitration, mediation and other administrative processes, registration of intellectual property rights, maintenance of registrations, objections to registration applications, licensing, transfer, assignment and other agreements and transactions regarding intellectual property rights , counterfeit and pirated products are researched and consultancy is provided on all these issues.
Some of the services offered by Dede Law Firm in the field of Intellectual Property Law:
International Commercial Disputes
Dede Law Firm represents its domestic and foreign clients in the field of International Transactions and Dispute Resolution, in international commercial transactions or commercial disputes.
Dede Law Firm provides foreign clients with the initiation and execution of transactions in Turkey; It provides a versatile and unique legal consultancy service regarding the compliance of these transactions with the Turkish and/or own country's legislation, and the resolution of international commercial disputes of Turkish and/or foreign clients, regardless of whether the dispute will be resolved in Turkey or abroad by judicial or peaceful means.
Some of the services offered by Dede Law in the field of International Transactions:
International Trade
Dede provides consultancy services on international commercial transactions with its expert staff and international business partners.
The diversity of our activities and our geographic reach enable us to advise and represent a wide variety of complex, international and high-level strategic transactions for a broad client portfolio of public and sole proprietorships, private equity firms and crypto exchange companies and other institutions and individuals.
We provide consultancy services on examining local and international regulations and identifying cross-border problems. It also provides consultancy services to our clients on intellectual property assessments and planning, information technology transformation, worker benefits and contracts, negotiations with customers, evaluation of third party rights in supplier, real estate and other contracts for specific transactions, and restrictions.
Some of the services we offer in the field of International Trade;
IT Law
Dede Law IT department, with lawyers who have specialized in this field; It provides deep and solution-oriented legal services in specific areas such as information technology law, licensing, exemptions, exceptions, intellectual property rights management.
In this context:
Labor and Social Security Law
Dede Law Firm works in constant communication with its clients' human resources units, ensuring that the entire procedure is carried out in accordance with the legal regulations from the start of the employment process to the end, and supports the reorganization of the client's practice for compliance with the legislation when deemed necessary.
Some of the services provided in the field of Labor and Social Security Law:
Mediation and Dispute Resolution
Mediation is an alternative dispute resolution method that aims for a quick resolution by negotiating with a mediator without bringing the legal disputes with which the parties are in communication before the decision authority.
Dede Law Firm offers fast and practical solutions to disputes with its lawyers experienced in negotiation, as well as representing its clients in mediation negotiations during the mediation process. Some of the services provided in the field of mediation:
Mergers and Acquistions
Dede Law Firm's lawyers include multinational companies, venture capital companies, private equity companies and their funds, domestic and international small and medium-sized companies and investment banks; He has extensive experience in representation in all phases of merger and acquisition, joint venture and partial spin-off projects. Within the scope of these activities, it represents its clients at every stage from sending the letter of intent to the completion of the closing procedures.
Thanks to the excellent relations it has established with its clients over a long period of time, Dede Hukuk is able to fully grasp the dynamics of the relevant sector and combine its current experience with the goal of meeting client needs in the most efficient way.
Personal Data Protection
Knowledge is one of the most important values of modern life. Everyday government agencies and private organizations; they collect, store, process and transfer significant amounts of data about individuals. The development of technology will allow people to share and disseminate knowledge worldwide; it causes dangerous situations such as losing control of people's information and using it against them. Protection of personal data is a right that individuals have against unauthorized use of their data by other persons or organizations. With the adoption of the Law on the Protection of Personal Data No. 6098 (PDP), a new era has been entered in our country, and the aforementioned Law has provided the citizens with certain rights against the natural and legal persons defined as data controllers, and has also brought some obligations to the data controllers. These obligations concern especially the IT and human resources departments of companies.
Dede Law Firm specializes in solutions that meet technology requirements and needs within the framework of personal data protection legislation. It aims to be one step ahead by closely following domestic and international developments in this field and thus to offer innovative legal solutions to its clients. It implements the Personal Data Protection Compliance Program, which is customized in line with its clients' needs. With the Compliance Program, it is aimed to identify the risks within the company in terms of the responsibility regime envisaged by the new law and to take measures against them, to establish a personal data protection policy on a company basis, to train the personnel responsible for data processing and to fulfill the audit obligation stipulated by the new law.
In order to ensure compliance with the PDP, as Dede Law Firm, our clients:
Venture Capital Investments Department
The Venture Capital Investments Department is a team dedicated to this field under Dede Law Firm. For this reason, it is one of the rare working groups in our country where information that requires expertise specific to the field of venture capital investments is compiled.
Dede Law, basically, manages all legal processes in order to ensure that its venture capital fund and angel investor clients realize their investments without any problems within the scope of its related activities.
Our main field of activity is to prepare and negotiate all contracts that our clients need, especially in their investment processes, including consultancy regarding the establishment phases of the funds.
In this context, the following services, including but not limited to, are provided by our office to venture capital investors:
In addition to the above, Dede Law Firm is able to meet all legal needs from A to Z that may be required in the processes related to portfolio companies in the post-investment phase, thanks to its structure that can provide services in all areas of law. In order to preserve the general business wisdom, the department always keeps several initiatives in its client portfolio, thus aiming to be able to read the business and mutual expectations in general at all times. Venture Capital Investments can provide services in a fully integrated system with the San Francisco liaison office for venture capitalists' investments in the USA. In this context, services are provided to carry out all phases of investments to be made through convertible note or preferred equity, from moving companies to Delaware.
