ADMINISTRATION AND TAX LAW

In addition to legal consultancy services in contracts such as concession, build-operate-transfer related to administrative authorities, we also provide legal services in the resolution of disputes with various administrations and the elimination of tax disputes for its clients who are leaders in different industries in Turkey.

Taking into account the fact that every commercial transaction comes with tax implications, we provide legal consultancy and litigation services in the field of Tax Law for the client companies to make their investments in compliance with financial legislations and cost-efficient manner.

Some of the services provided by Koca Law Firm in the field of Administrative and Tax Law include;

• Conducting all administrative applications and objections
• Exhausting all administrative remedies and carrying out settlement processes
• Litigation and dispute resolution
• Resolving disputes that arise from customs legislation and other administrative and tax offences and penalties

   BANKING AND FINANCE

Koca Law Office provides services with the attorneys are experts in their field and possess the skills to solve problems arising in the field of Banking and Finance Law to a wide range of clients such as financial institutions, leasing companies, banks and borrowers. It provides services in national and international areas such as Credit and Surety, Financial Leasing, Factoring, Real Estate and Securities Financing, Capital Market Instruments and Other Debt Instruments, as well as the execution and follow-up of legal business and transactions.

Some of the services provided by Koca Law Office in the field of Banking and Finance Law;

• Loan Agreements
• Consultancy services in Banking Law and in the operation, structure and organization of financial credit establishments
• Leasing
• Corporate Finance
• Asset and Project Finance
• Structural Finance
• Securitization
• Capital Markets and Instruments

   COMPETITION LAW

In the context of the economy’s complex nature, our clients face with various and unforeseeable competition law problems. As a Koca Law Office, we adopt a client-focused working systematic in order to prevent competition violations and to provide practical and long-term solutions to the changing needs of our domestic / foreign clients basing on a comparative analysis of EU and Turkish Competition regulations in regard to the competitive system in the free market economy and in the globalizing world.

We are pleased to represent our clients in all phases of the Competition Law investigations with our know-how in regard to the sector specific regulations.

Some of the services offered by our office in the field of Competition Law;

• Legal counselling on the matter of Site survey and investigation
• Application for individual exemption and negative clearance
• Conusance application support on global scale
• Merge and acquisitions, joint ventures
• Competition Law counselling

   CONSUMER LAW

Koca Law Firm offers services in the resolution of controversial issues in the Consumer Arbitration Committees and Consumer Courts, as well as the issues that fall under the Law on Consumer Protection, Law of Obligations, Commercial Code and other relevant regulations, in order to protect the interests of its clients in the position of consumer or seller and to compensate them.

Some of the services provided by Koca Law Firm in the field of Consumer Law;

• Drafting Purchase and Sales Agreements
• Following all relevant legislation in the field of Consumer Law
• Following transactions in front of Consumer Arbitration Committees
• Providing legal remedies for customers’ complaints
• Making settlement negotiations and protocols between buyers and sellers
• Settling disputes arising from defective goods or services
• Settling disputes tried by Consumer and Commercial Courts

   CORPORATE LAW

Koca Law Office offers corporate law services to local and international clients operating in various sectors and wide range of markets. This process includes all phases of a company’s lifecycle from the preparation of the articles of association and incorporation to termination and liquidation as well as significant structural change procedures such as establishment, capital increases, merger / acquisition and conversion of type.

Some of the services provided by Koca Law Firm in the field of Corporate Law are;

• Providing consultancy service regarding the purchase and sale of commercial companies
• Merger, Acquisition and Type Change or Public Offering transactions
• Preparation of company’s articles of association
• Carrying out capital increases / reductions, share transfers, mergers
• Preventing unfair competition and offering consultancy under consumer legislation
• Carrying out transactions related to shares and bonds
• Performing due diligence

   CRIMINAL LAW

Koca Law Firm provides all kinds of litigation and consultancy services in the field of Criminal Law starting from the investigation stage regarding the actions of its clients that may cause criminal sanctions in terms of all types of crimes.

It provides consultancy services from investigation and pre-litigation stages to litigation and enforcement stages with regard to all procedures and processes bearing risk of criminal sanction acts by both the Turkish Penal Code and special laws.

   ENERGY LAW

Koca Law Firm provides consultancy services to marketers, suppliers, pipeline companies and investors in production, transmission and financing with regard to electricity, wind, natural gas, solar energy as well as renewable energy sources such as biomass and biofuels.

Within the scope of our work in the field of Energy Law, we provide legal consultancy and litigation services regarding the disputes that may arise from Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA- Turkish EPDK) regulations, commercial transactions, project development, energy transfer disputes and license agreements.

Some of the services provided by Koca Law Office regarding Energy Law;

• Any license applications and their amendments with regard to the energy market
• Executing any procedure with regard to the Turkish EPDK (Energy Market Regulatory Authority-EMRA)
• Drafting License Agreements
• Drafting Concession Agreements
• Drafting Production Sharing Agreements
• Establishing Energy Companies, drafting due diligence reports and conducting share transfers

   ENFORCEMENT AND BANKRUPTCY LAW

Koca Law Office in the field of Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law protects the superior interests of all its clients who are parties as debtor or creditor and carries out comprehensive investigation to determine all properties belonging to the debtor, including real estate as well as rights and receivables in third persons under execution proceedings with the purpose of collecting receivables in the field of Execution and Bankruptcy Law. Such services also include litigation proceedings at execution courts and general courts for the resolution of disputes between the creditor/the debtor and third persons.

Some of the other services provided by our office in the field of Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law include;
• Carrying out execution and bankruptcy proceedings for the purpose of collecting receivables
• Drafting protocols for debt liquidation negotiations and amicable agreements made between the debtor or creditor client and the other party
• Carrying out proceedings for the suspension of bankruptcy
• Resolving disputes arising from bank loan agreements

   ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

Koca Law Firm provides litigation and consultancy services to its clients in the field of Environmental Law regarding management of legal processes related to the disputes arising from the environmental legislations such Kyoto Protocol, EU Environmental Policies and Global Organizations.

   FAMILY AND INHERITANCE LAW

Koca Law Office serves the clients by writing protocols and representing them in front of courts during dispute resolution regarding issues of Family and Inheritance Law matters such as marriage, engagement, divorce, alimony obligations and child support, custody, matrimonial property regimes, kinship, establishing paternity, adoption, property guardianship, family estate and tutelage between parties both Turkish citizens or Turkish citizens and foreigners pursuant to the Civil Code. The Office provides services to its clients in the resolution of disputes before the courts and in the arrangement of protocols between the parties, with paying utmost care and attention to the privacy of private life within the framework of the provisions of the Civil Code, the Code of Civil Procedure and the relevant international agreements and laws.

Some of the services provided by our office in the field of Family and Inheritance Law are as follows;

• Conducting litigation in divorce and paternity lawsuits,
• Execution of divorce and paternity cases,
• Preparing and executing protocols for uncontested divorce cases,
• Making claims of pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages in divorce cases,
• Providing legal remedies for actions against verdicts and provisions regarding custody, alimony and child support
• Executing the division of matrimonial property regimes after divorce
• Applying for court measures against domestic violence and such cases,
• Providing consultancy services regarding matrimonial property agreements that shall be conducted between the marrying parties
• Resolution of conflicts arising from the termination of engagement,
• Settling all sorts of disputes tried by Family Courts.

   FOREIGNERS AND CITIZENSHIP LAW

As Koca Law Firm, we establish social relations with many people from other nations, as our country has become a country that receives a lot of immigration in recent years. Mainly as a result of migration to foreign refugees coming to Turkey, conditional refugees are given different status as a secondary or temporary protection.

Operating in such a country, Koca Law Office actively provides legal consultancy services in a wide range of legal issues in the field of Foreigners and Citizenship Law. Our team of qualified lawyers and foreign consultants has the required skills to deal with problems that have an element of foreignness.

Some of the services provided by Koca Law Firm in the field of Foreigners and Citizenship Law;

• Applying for, following and concluding procedures for obtaining residence permits and extending residence permit durations for foreigners who wish to live in Turkey
• Applying for, following and concluding procedures for obtaining work permits and extending work permit durations for foreigners who plan to be employed in Turkey, including but not limited to foreigners to be employed at legal entities subject to the Law on Foreign Direct Investments, and applying for, following and concluding procedures of obtaining family residence permits for spouse and children through the sponsorship of persons who have the work permit in Turkey,
• Applying for, following and concluding procedures for citizenship for foreigners who wish to acquire Turkish citizenship under Law no. 5901 on Turkish Citizenship,
• Applying for, following and concluding the procedures for tax exemption for foreigners who do not reside in Turkey but wish to buy properties in Turkey under Law no. 3065 on Value Added Tax Act.

   HEALTH AND PHARMACEUTICALS LAW

Koca Law Office provides extensive consultancy services to its local and international clients regarding the settlement of any contractual and administrative disputes arising from industrial activities.

The Office provides legal consultancy services to its clients in the prevention of unlawful interventions in line with the rights of patients, compensation cases (malpractice) arising from doctor errors and other disputes due to health and pharmaceuticals law.

Some of the services provided by Koca Law Firm in the field of Health and Pharmaceuticals Law;

• Drafting purchase and sales agreements for pharmaceutical raw materials and pharmaceutical production-development agreements
• Drafting confidentiality agreements
• Drafting pharmaceutical distribution agreements
• Drafting agreements relating to clinical research
• Securing intellectual property rights (especially regarding disputes arising from pharmaceutical patents and pharmaceutical trademarks)
• Drafting recycling agreements for hazardous wastes/packages
• Rendering consultancy services relating to administrative procedures for pharmaceutical sales and marketing authorizations
• Applying for patent registrations of pharmaceutical inventions and pharmaceutical trademarks and following registration processes.

   INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

Koca Law Office provides services in the application and registration procedures for the registration of trademarks and patents in the Turkish Patent Institute, as well as the trademark researches of these companies, based on the rapid development of international trade in the globalized world, and the necessity of protecting the distinctive characteristics of domestic and foreign companies’ products and services.

Some of the services offered by our office in the field of Intellectual and Industrial Property Law;

• Copyright protection and license agreements
• Executing investigation, registration, protection and transfer procedures of trademarks, patents, industrial designs and utility models on national and international scales
• Providing legal consultancy services regarding rights on trademarks, patents, industrial designs and utility models, as well as following litigations arising from disputes
• Prevention of the abuse of trade secrets and providing consultancy services in unfair competition disputes, and litigations arising from disputes
• Providing consultancy services on IP rights during mergers and acquisitions
• Drafting license agreements and providing consultancy services on licensing negotiations.

   INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW

Koca Law Firm represents a broad range of clients in the field of International Commercial Law together with its international business partners. It provides consultancy services on the preparation of all kinds of commercial contracts, foreign representation and consultancy contracts such as agency, franchise, supply distribution and commission arrangements in line with the interests and demands of its clients for international commercial life.

Some of the services provided by Koca Law Firm in the field of International Trade Law;

• Preparation of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) contract examples such as Commercial Representation Agreement, Distribution Agreement, Brokerage agreement, Merger-acquisition agreements
• Legal consultancy and advocacy service regarding various contract conditions and licensing
• Consultancy service in disputes arising from mobile marketing, tele-marketing, unfair marketing current activities in the field of marketing
• Legal consultancy on issues such as warranty conditions, after-sales service and repair obligations, product liability
• Reporting the amendments in regulations and practices in international trade
• Trade policy consultancy

   INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Koca Law Office represents a broad range of clients in the field of International Transactions and Dispute Resolution, international commercial transactions or commercial disputes. The Office provides its foreign clients extensive legal consultancy services on initiating and following transactions in Turkey and checking the conformity of these transactions with Turkish law and the client’s native law. Koca Law Office further aids clients in the resolution of commercial disputes whether they are to be solved in Turkey or abroad, in court or by settlement.

Some of the services provided by Koca Law Firm in the field of International Transactions;

• Following receivables from abroad originating from imports and exports
• Ensuring execution and enforcement of adjudications in foreign countries
• Providing consultancy in the preparation of exportation documents
• Providing consultancy regarding investment incentives to companies
• Resolution of disputes arising from customs procedures
• Preparing defenses against actions that fall under the prevention of unfair competition in imports
• Settlement of disputes encountered in free economic zones
• Settlement of disputes related to the customs clearance, transportation, insurance and delivery of imported and exported goods.

   LABOR AND SOCIAL SECURITY LAW

Koca Law Office works in close proximity to the human resources departments of its clients, ensuring that all procedures during the employment process are conducted in compliance with legal regulations from beginning to end, and provides support in redrafting implementations of its clients for their compliance with legislation when necessary.

Some of the services provided in the field of Labor and Social Security Law include;

• Preparing drafts of collective labor agreements and managing negotiations
• Resolving termination of contracts and severance issues through litigation or settlement
• Consultancy on criminal and legal liabilities with regard to occupational accidents and diseases and conducting the required works to fulfil obligations
• Ensuring the conformity of working environments with legislation in force, especially with regard to health and safety
• Updating and/or re¬drafting employment contracts and related procedures under implementations of the Supreme Court
• Drafting reports, defense request letters, notices and notifications of termination for each occasion
• Rendering training services with regard to liabilities arising from Labor Law, Social Security Law and Unemployment Insurance Law
• Settling disputes with regard to trade union activities.

   REAL ESTATE LAW

Koca Law Office provides legal consultancy services to real estate owners and investors on the transfer and management of property, as well as carrying out various transactions such as real estate purchasing and selling, renting, the establishment of real and personal rights on real estate and conducting negotiations in this respect. Koca Law Office has a wide range of clients in the real estate industry including domestic and foreign investors.

Some of the services provided by Koca Law Firm in the field of Real Estate Law include;

• Carrying out Land Registry procedures
• Drafting rental contracts
• Drafting agreements for establishment of real and personal rights
• Ensuring due diligence and issuing due diligence report
• Drafting purchase and sales agreements
• Checking conformity of projects with environmental legislations
• Acquisition of real estate by foreigners