Litigation & Dispute Resolution
We act for foreign nationals and foreign entities before Turkish courts, which raises questions most domestic litigation never reaches: Jurisdiction, applicable law, reciprocity, security for costs, service on parties abroad, and recognition of foreign judgments. The firm has litigated foreign claimants’ procedural rights under Turkish civil procedure, international service of process, and asset recovery across jurisdictions. Files are documented in Turkish and English in parallel so that counsel abroad reads the same record.
International Arbitration
Arbitration is chosen because it travels. Whether it does depends on decisions taken when the clause is drafted rather than when the dispute arises. We advise on arbitration agreements, seat and institution selection, and the arbitrability of the subject matter under Turkish law, and we act in proceedings and in the recognition and enforcement of foreign awards before Turkish courts. Where a clause was drafted badly by someone else, the first question is whether it survives at all.
Enforcement & Bankruptcy
A judgment is a piece of paper until enforcement turns it into money, and in Turkey that is a separate proceeding with its own rules, its own objections and its own time limits. We act for creditors in enforcement proceedings and precautionary attachment, defend against enforcement where the underlying claim is contested, and represent creditors in bankruptcy and composition. For foreign creditors this is also where the security for costs question arises, before the merits are ever reached.
Criminal Law
Our criminal practice is confined to the economic and regulatory offences that arise out of commercial work: Offences under capital markets legislation, unauthorised financial activity, tax offences, fraud and breach of trust, and the criminal exposure attaching to company officers. We do not hold ourselves out as a general criminal defence practice. Where a commercial matter develops a criminal dimension, the partner already on the file stays on it.
