Regulatory and Compliance

Our Regulatory and Compliance practice offers clients various legal services born of expert legal representation and strategic insight. With our extensive knowledge of local regulations and our expert capabilities, we advise clients on understanding the responsibilities and managing the risks, and how to deal with increasing complex challenges and compliance with laws and regulations as regulatory frameworks are rapidly changing around the world and transparency increases in significance.

We provide full-service regulatory and compliance representation across sectors including highly regulated industries i.e, finance, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and energy. Our regulatory services include complex transactions to day-to-day operations, regulatory proceedings, licensing and permissions, incentives regimes, and preparation for public tenders.

Considering the risks in emerging countries as well as the cost of non-compliance, we represent companies doing business in Turkey both for preventive work and investigations carried out by administrative authorities. We have a significant knowledge and practice of conducting fraud investigations in relations to FCPA, the UK Bribery Act, and the obligatory provisions of Turkish law on anti-corruption. We are well positioned to assist clients in anti-corruption due diligence on mergers and acquisitions target and consult on the handling of internal compliance investigations and white collar crimes triggered as a result.

We also assist clients for internal ethics and compliance trainings, drafting crisis manuals, and full fledged compliance issues. Our expertise extends to establishment of integrity infrastructures and ethics programs for corporations, preparation company policies and procedures, and designing whistleblowing procedures.