SYC Law offers legal services for transactions like mergers, mergers by acquisition, divisions, and conversions of companies, works for the designation of the type of merger, and resolution of disputes that may arise during such processes. SYC Law comments on the consequences of the processes to the clients and follows up the legal process. Detailed and meticulous legal support is provided to conduct projects and due diligence for the realization of the transactions.

SYC Law also provides legal services for the preparation of share transfer documents and resolution of issues related to tax and assurance law. Additionally, to make the transaction valid, SYC Law provides support to its clients for the procurement of required approvals from the relevant public authorities, especially from the Competition Board.

SYC Law is aware of the importance of preventive law services and organizes compliance programs through in-company training on competition matters in line with the Turkish, EU and German competition law. The matters that are most focused on in the compliance process are making exemption and negative clearance applications regarding the agreements that the undertakings are a party of, carrying out the processes for the approval of the Board if required for mergers and transactions. SYC Law, by its expert team, renders legal consultancy service to undertakings when Competition Authority starts preliminary inquiry and investigation against undertakings, prepares written pleas against the report prepared by the Board, represents undertakings in hearings and strives to make a form of precedents. Upon the request of clients, decisions given by the Board are pursued in administrative jurisdiction. Additionally, SYC Law also represents its clients in civil courts concerning compensation claims of third parties.

SYC Law offers general guidance, post-dispute consultancy, and advocacy services in all aspects of IP law including patents, utility models, trademarks, design, copyright, geographical indications, internet domain names. Besides, legal support is provided to the clients about musical works, artworks or other processing and compilation work within the scope of intellectual and artistic works.

Legal support is offered regarding the registration procedures in TURKPATENT or international organizations, objections and defenses are prepared, cases are conducted, clients are represented in arbitration and mediation. License, transfer, lease and other transactions of rights contracts are drafted and legal opinions are provided. Within SYC Law, the trade secrets are protected meticulously and intensive effort is made to protect clients’ products against piracy and counterfeiting.

SYC Law constantly follows the national and international developments in the field of information technologies and creates solutions suitable for sectoral dynamics regarding the needs of the clients. Nowadays, with the extensive use of the Internet, new business models of the digital economy have emerged. Innovative solutions are offered to clients regarding the problems arising from these new business models. In this context, internet content and hosting service provider consultancy, an e-commerce consultancy, internet payment systems, digital advertising, online reputation within the scope of social media law, information security, confidentiality agreements and protection of personal data and clients against unfair competition in an electronic environment are some of the areas that SYC Law worked. In addition, current legal developments in the field of blockchain technologies and smart contracts are closely followed and clients are informed about these issues.

Nowadays, the importance and application area of the advertising and marketing sectors is increasing considerably. With its experienced team, SYC Law closely follows the new legal developments of these sectors. Within this scope, SYC Law serves legal and consultancy service for the commercial communication and especially advertisements and disputes arising from these communications and advertisements in a printed publication such as journal, newspaper, leaflet, brochure as well as in digital media such as radio, TV, cinema, social media accounts and other websites. Unfair commercial practices such as deceptive and comparative advertisements, sectoral TV advertisements, sponsorship agreements, surreptitious or explicit advertisements, product placement, and promotions are some of the areas that SYC Law works in and many legal solutions are offered as part of preventive law. Therewithal, the practices of media and advertisement departments are evaluated and the clients are informed whether these practices comply with unfair competition law, consumer law and other relevant legislation.

SYC Law works on disputes arising from the arrangement and use of negotiable instruments, which are indispensable elements of commercial life and where violations of law cause serious rights losses. All kinds of disputes that may occur during the creation and use of a bill of exchange such as the loss, revocation, transfer, and bounce of checks, bonds and policies are also in the scope of the legal and consultancy service of SYC Law. Clients are also informed about the creation, transfer, loss and revocation of other types of negotiable instruments such as stocks, warehouse receipts, mortgage bonds, annuity bonds, bonded debts, warrants and commodities.

Furthermore, SYC Law works on securities, which are also negotiable instruments for investment purposes, and disputes arising from other capital market instruments. Within the framework of capital market law, which is constantly changing, current legislation and practices are closely followed to minimize the risk burden of clients. Within this scope, legal consultancy services are provided to the public companies, investment funds, banks, and investors.

SYC Law provides its clients legal and consultancy services for executing the establishment, operation, merger and acquisition operations of foreign capital companies, drafting or negotiating international commercial contracts such as distributorship, agency, franchise, and transportation. SYC Law also provides consultancy services for restructuring and directing international commercial activities, drafting and execution of contracts and projects, consumer law, customs-related activities, and after-sales services. Besides, arbitration and mediation services are provided for clients who prefer alternative dispute resolution methods for international commercial disputes.

SYC Law provides its clients legal and consultancy services for executing the establishment, operation, merger and acquisition operations of foreign capital companies, drafting or negotiating international commercial contracts such as distributorship, agency, franchise, and transportation. SYC Law also provides consultancy services for restructuring and directing international commercial activities, drafting and execution of contracts and projects, consumer law, customs-related activities, and after-sales services. Besides, arbitration and mediation services are provided for clients who prefer alternative dispute resolution methods for international commercial disputes.

SYC Law provides consultancy services to its clients about national and international aviation law, in this context, the registration of the aircraft and the legal follow-up are carried out. Financial guarantees are established and registered in compliance with the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, Chicago and Cape Town Conventions. Our services include preparing aviation service contracts, aircraft purchasing contracts, financial contracts and dry-wet leasing contracts which are frequently preferred in recent years and establishing communication with leasing companies. SYC Law comments on the compatibility with Turkish Law and in case of international disputes, it provides legal and consultancy service with its solution partners. Additionally, clients are represented in liability, compensation and insurance litigations arising from civil aviation accidents.

SYC Law follows recent developments of taxation legislation and periodically informs its taxpayer clients about these developments. Within the context of preventive law, in the light of the legislations about corporation tax, value-added tax (VAT), income tax and other kinds of taxes, it is worked on to protect clients from possible tax penalties.

Taxation law plans are made and dedicated solutions are offered to the clients before share transfer agreements, mergers and acquisitions, and both national and international investments. Legal opinions are rendered in areas, which require legal knowledge, such as transfer pricing and avoiding double taxation. Besides, in the existence of taxation faults that clients encountered, required applications are made for rectification. Legal and consultancy services are also rendered about appealing to judicial remedy for administrative fines.

Receiving legal aid during drafting contracts has great importance to prevent possible disputes in the future. SYC Law serves a comprehensive advisory legal service for drafting, changing, analyzing, terminating the contracts and the process in case of breach of contracts, considering the relevant features of the sector of clients. Besides dealing with construction, franchising, service, rent, consumer and all other kinds of contracts, SYC Law also renders a legal advisory service regarding mixed contracts that have arisen inconsistent with the changing needs and developing technology.

Especially incentives for energy and infrastructure areas caused construction projects to gain importance in recent years. Mixed contracts have been formed with the inclusion of foreign investors and contractors in the process.

Title deed transactions, rental contracts, joint venture agreements, subcontractor contracts, consortium agreements, real estate financing, administrative permissions, running a land registry, cadaster transactions and legal advisory regarding property obtaining for foreigners, are some of the services that SYC Law rendered.

The Personal Data Protection Law introduced by Turkey-based on EU acquis has laid serious responsibilities on natural persons and legal entities. Besides dealing with construction, franchising, service, rent, consumer and all other kinds of contracts, SYC Law also renders a legal consultancy service regarding combined contracts that have arisen inconsistent with the changing needs and developing technology. By the adaptation programs within consultancy services, all of the actions of the process from obtaining the relevant personal data up to destroying them are provided to be in accordance with Law, Authority Principles and Decisions, relevant communique and regulation. Training is held for the relevant departments of enterprises according to adaptation program, personal data processing inventories are prepared, informative and clear consent texts are drafted, training regarding the necessary measures and the security of personal data is held, confidentiality agreements and commitments regarding overseas data transfer are drafted in this context.

Banking and Finance sector has a significant role in realizing much collaboration, and in projects whose brand value is high. Besides private and public banks, leasing, factoring, and finance companies have important places in those projects.

In this regard, SYC Law offers consultancy and legal services in the Banking and Finance sector. Project financing, asset financing, credit contracts, leasing contracts, international trade financing, capital markets, financial settlement, Islamic finance, trade, and real estate financing are the major working areas.

Parallel to the development of technology, the energy market has reached a crucial position with many current legal regulations. As a result of that, energy law becomes an independent law discipline. SYC Law provides several consultancy services in energy law such as giving consultancy about production, distribution and financial subjects about energy power plants, oil, and mining. Besides, SYC Law renders services to companies in legal processes with public institutions and executive organs, dispute resolution occurred from concession contracts, boring contracts and production sharing agreements and the processes of the planning projects, the stages of those projects and authority approvals.

In the field of consumer law, SYC Law provides consultancy services in pre-dispute and post-dispute between consumer and buyer in litigation in consideration of Consumer Protection Code, Turkish Code of Obligations, Turkish Commercial Code and related regulations. In this context, the services of SYC Law can be listed as; providing legal solutions for consumer clients, who are seller, buyer or consumer, with following the body of current consumer law, organizing and concluding compromise deliberations between the seller and consumer, dispute resolution arising from defective good or defective services, following litigation processes before Consumer Arbitration litigation processes in Consumer Arbitration Committee and Consumer Courts.

SYC Law offers services with great prudence and attention for disputes arising from family law both in litigation processes and preparing protocols between parties in consideration of the Turkish Civil Code, Code of Civil Procedure, and related international agreements and legislation. Those services can be listed as, following up the processes of matrimonial properties after matrimonial action or divorcement of Turkish citizens or foreign people, adoption, children’s assets, family’s assets, and guardianship. SYC Law Firm, which serves pursuing lawsuits about inheritance law, gives services in this field from preparing testamentary dispositions for clients to transferring of estates to heirs.

Besides national disputes, SYC Law also represents both local and foreign clients before international arbitration centers about related disputes. In this context, SYC Law provides legal and consultancy services to its clients in pursuance of arbitration trials, the impeachment of awards, recognition, and approval of awards in this field.

With its experienced team, SYC Law provides services as applying to build licenses, building use permits, suspension of execution against construction plan and nullity suit, confiscation without expropriating suits, confirmations of construction plans, elimination of joint ownership suits, urban transformation. Likewise, our team always follows current improvements of regulations and in the light of these, clients are informed, and works are updated with new amendments.

Nowadays it has been difficult for public and private sector authorities who have busy schedules, to follow public procurement and privatization transactions, which requires following the actual legislation. SYC Law provides its clients with a legal consultancy service in each step from the initiation to the conclusion of public procurement. Support has been provided for preparing proposals, following the public procurement process, settling legal disputes, following the relevant litigations, enjoying the right of the complaint before the relevant authority related to the disputes arising during the process of public procurement. Moreover, a consultancy and legal services are provided relating to privatization funds, privatization auctions, the process for merging, separation and settlement of establishments.

The state has the authority to expropriate all or a part of personal property real estate with cash payment according to public welfare. This action is one of the most common administrative acts in Turkey. At this point, SYC Law potently follows proceedings of expropriation, price determination and registration proceedings, urgent expropriation proceedings, confiscation without expropriating lawsuits in judicial justice. Besides, cases about the cancellation of expropriation in administrative jurisdiction are also followed by SYC Law Firm.

The experienced lawyers within SYC Law provide price determination for expropriation and registration proceedings, particularly for full-scale substructure designs. On the other hand, SYC Law renders services and follows cases for ownerships of real estates, which were entreated with expropriation. Within this scope, in those litigations and periods, SYC Law renders professional services to provide claimed right and actual prices for related real estates and relieve clients from unjust treatment.