Gunalcin Hukuk Bürosu

Gunalcin provides legal services to local and multinational clients in a wide range of commercial and contract law matters as well as corporate housekeeping. We assist our clients with day-to-day commercial issues, drafting and negotiation of full range of agreements and corporate governance.

Our client roster comprises of entities from diverse industries such as telecom, e-payment and e-commerce, IT & technology, tourism, pharmaceuticals, food industry and recycling.

Gunalcin is highly reputed in buy-side and sell-side mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, joint ventures, privatizations, exits, restructurings, asset and business transfers. We deal with all stages of transactions from kick-off to post-closing, including conducting due diligence, drafting and negotiation of sale and purchase agreements, shareholders agreements and handling of post-closing procedures and integration.

Along with representing our clients on a standalone basis, our team is also capable of collaborating with international law firms and consultants, particularly on cross-border transactions.

Gunalcin offers day-to-day legal solutions for its IT and telecom clients including, multinational telecom companies, internet service providers (ISPs), infrastructure operators, software and technology companies. Our team has a deep understanding of IT, technology and internet law and offers its expertise in regulatory matters to clients.

We represent our clients before the Turkish Information and Communication Technologies Authority on various matters, including license applications.  We assist our clients to fulfill their obligations and assess risks arising from electronic communications regulatory regime and to always stay compliant.

Gunalcin handles all aspects of data protection and privacy law, without limitation to conducting data protection and privacy compliance projects, offering advice to local and multinational clients on a day-to-day basis on data protection and privacy matters such as cross-border data transfer, data retention, data breaches and subject access requests. We act for our clients before the Turkish Data Protection Authority to ensure that they satisfy the Data Controllers’ Registry requirements and represent them for notifications of breach and international transfer permit applications and the Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs) approvals. Additionally, we draft data protection and privacy policies, guidelines and documents.

Gunalcin brings vast expertise in construction and land development projects, investment trusts and funds, building permits and regulations, disposals and transfers of property, build-operate-transfer (BOT) agreements, establishment of liens and mortgages, commercial lease agreements.

We assist local and multinational clients in competition matters, including day-to-day competition and regulatory matters, agreement reviews, cross-border merger control filings and other M&A-related antitrust issues and represent clients before Turkish Competition Authority.

Gunalcin’s employment practice offers advice to local and multinational clients in drafting and adopting employment documents such as employment contracts, employee benefit and stock option plans, restrictive covenants, disciplinary, termination and severance procedures, handling of employment-related disputes, litigation, meditation and compliance matters.

Gunalcin’s regulatory compliance team has a broad knowledge on challenging and ever-changing Turkish regulatory environment to cover a wide spectrum of compliance matters. We provide our clients with legal analysis as to existing rules and regulations in Turkey, help them to conduct proper risk assessment for their ongoing and prospective business plans and practices and liaise with public authorities to mitigate any existing or future risks.