Corporate Maintenance / Retainer

Our Corporate Retainer practice serves more than 130 companies, many of whom are leaders in their sectors and more than half of which are multi-national companies doing business in Turkey.

Our Corporate service essentially provides our clients with a cost effective way to outsource an in-house legal function, with a team of multi-disciplinary lawyers always on hand to advise them on their day to day legal needs. This includes all kinds of issues that our clients encounter as part of the normal operation of their business including, but not limited to, the following:

• Company secretarial / corporate governance
• Establishment of a new company vehicles
• Advise on legal issues regarding Commercial and Civil Codes and Code of Obligations and on any other relevant Turkish law and regulation
• Review of all other legal documentation at the official records such as signature circulars, powers of attorney, share books
• All required legal procedures at the trade registries, notaries and other administrative offices
• Assisting or conducting board of directors, general assembly and any other statutory meetings
• Intellectual Property Law issues
• Meetings/negotiations with third parties
• Drafting and reviewing of contracts such as sales, employment, lease and distribution agreements
• Every aspect of employment and social security law including but not limited to:
  • Compensation & benefits
  • Employment documentation
  • Terminations
  • Collective dismissals
  • Union relations
  • Occupational health and safety
  • Subcontracting, temporary employment relationships.