Yamakoğlu & İsgoren Law Firm

We are an Istanbul based law firm specialized in citizenship matters and in commercial/business law matters. Our counsels have vast experience in handling Turkish citizenship submission process and we are among the market leaders in this sector in terms of quality of legal services and the number of clients.

We have a rich portfolio of experience and relationships inside the government authorities that enable us to follow and finalize the citizenship process as smooth as possible. Without your presence in Turkey, we are filing the citizenship submission and follow the whole processtill to end on your behalf and; act as your contact person between the public authorities and yourself.

We provide a wide range of services across the entire spectrum of life sciences and healthcare-related matters to a wide range of companies operating within the industries of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, nutrition, food supplements, cosmetics and animal health products.

Apart from the regulatoryissues (promotion, reimbursement, pricing etc.) specific to the sector, we are also competent in advising clients in healthcare industry about the general legal issues related to daily business activities such employment matters, IP and compliance matters.

Thanks to our long standing past experience in Life Science industry, as well as the legal knowledge we also have the regulatory, scientific and medical knowledge to make us better understand the complexity of the business in that industry.

We provide legal services and close support to global-scale pharmaceutical companies in a variety of areas including:

• Business development models and agreements (such as co-marketing and co-promotion)
• Clinical research/observational studies
• Compliance
• Distribution and manufacturing agreements
• IP matters, data protection and data exclusivity
• Marketing authorization transfers
• Pharmacovigilance
• Pricing &reimbursement

In providing legal advice to our clients with respect to employment and HR matters, our main and preliminary purpose is to develop and implement internal employment policies in order to minimize employment related legal risks and avoid litigations/disputes with the employees as much as possible. However, once litigation in inevitable, our team has the legal knowledge and experience to represent the clients during the mediation and the court proceedings on the employment law disputes.

We provide legal advice and practical solutions in employment and labor law, offering advice on both contentious and non-contentions matters. We advise clients on all employment matters, including relations with sub-contractors, drafting company internal HR regulations, preparation and implementation of employment contracts, assistance in relation to the labour authority inspections, terminating the employment contracts.

Our employment law practice focuses on the below matters:

• Benefits and compensations
• Confidentiality issues and protection of trade secrets
• Drafting and reviewing employment contracts
• Drafting and reviewing internal HR regulations (policies)
• Employee data protection
• Employment litigation and mediation
• Immigration services (residence and work permit)
• Legal advisory services in relation to employment issues
• Occupational health and security (safety at work place)
• Outsourcing and sub-contracting
• Protecting proprietary interests, including restrictive covenants
• Termination of employment contracts and dismissals and all other disputes with the employees

With our diversified construction law experience, we provide practical legal advice at every stage of the construction projects, starting from the preparation stageuntil its completion including the legal proceedings that may occur at the ongoing stages even after the completion of the project.

We are aware of the fact that completion of a professional legal assessment (due diligence) and preparation of a full report based on such assessment is a must in the first place to start construction projects. We also have deep experience in preparation of the construction agreements and other agreements relating thereof such as the project management, consortium, technical consultancy etc.

On the dispute resolution side, our experienced team is prepared to provide efficient legal support to the clients for the resolution of any legal disputes and represent the clients before the courts thanks to its deep legal knowledge and technical experience on construction projects, such as the time extension calculations, damage calculations and the determination of whether the requested works are within the scope of the agreements.

Our services in construction sector focuses on the below matters:

• Build-operate-transfer agreements
• Construction agreements
• Construction projects
• Environmental law matters
• Litigations/disputes on construction matters
• Real estate development, planning and land use
• Project Management Agreements
• Technical Consultancy Agreements

PRACTICE & INDUSTRIES

• Administrative Disputes
• Commercial Contracts
• Compliance & Investigations
• Construction
• Corporate
• Criminal Litigation & White Collar Crimes
• Employment & HR
• Energy & Mining
• Insurance
• Intellectual Property
• IT (Information Technology)
• Life Sciences & Healthcare
• Litigation & Dispute Resolution
• Maritime
• Mediation
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Real Estate
• Retail & Consumer Products

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As well as litigations arising from daily business disputes, we have deep experience in representing both local and multinational clients in disputeson high profile and complex projectsin all aspects of dispute prevention and aiming to resolve issues prior to trial. In that sense, our main approach is to avoid litigation and disputes to the extent possible; however, if the litigation is unavoidablewe do our best to represent our clients in the courts to get the best possible result for the client.

Dealing with high profile disputes our Litigation team has the ability to cope well with pressure, deliver to tight deadlines and provide high quality legal advice tailored to your commercial objectives.

Our dispute resolution practice focuses on the below matters:

• Administrative disputes
• Bankruptcy procedures and postponement of bankruptcy
• Concordat procedures
• Enforcement proceedings for collecting receivables
• Commercial and contractual disputes
• Construction
• Consumer protection and product liability
• Criminal &White Collar Crime matters
• Data privacy protection
• Employment
• Family law disputes and divorce litigations
• Inheritance disputes
• Intellectual property
• Real estate
• Shareholder disputes
• Unfair Competition

PRACTICE & INDUSTRIES

• Administrative Disputes
• Commercial Contracts
• Compliance & Investigations
• Construction
• Corporate
• Criminal Litigation & White Collar Crimes
• Employment & HR
• Energy & Mining
• Insurance
• Intellectual Property
• IT (Information Technology)
• Life Sciences & Healthcare
• Litigation & Dispute Resolution
• Maritime
• Mediation
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Real Estate
• Retail & Consumer Products

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As well as representing our clients in the general criminal litigations, we especially provide legal consultancy services to the companies on criminal liability issues regarding white collar crimes.

Within the scope of our white collar crime practice, we assist our clients to avoid disputes before they arise by various means such as implementing compliance programs (internal policies) and conduct of internal audits and reviews. In that sense, we regularly conduct internal investigations on white collar crime issues on behalf of in-house counsels, compliance officers, and audit committees of the client companies. Despite those precautions, if any dispute arises related to white crime matters, our team has the legal knowledge and experience to defend the clients in the court proceedings and advice clients during criminal and regulatory investigations.

Our criminal law practice focuses on the below issues:

• Anti-money laundering, bribery, forgery and fraud
• Abuse of trust by employees and directors
• Compliance investigations and trainings
• Counterfeiting
• Criminal investigations
• False expense claims
• Legal proceedings and criminal litigations
• Liabilities of directors in the companies
• Misappropriation
• Theft of data and intellectual property
• Unfair competition

Protecting the intellectual properties such as patents and trademarks are vital for the companies and other merchants. We give importance to the business objectives and priorities of our clients in the most accurate way by providing innovative and strategic solutions to meet the legal requirements arising from matters concerning intellectual property. Our knowledge and experience in IP issues enable us to effectively assist our clients in both commercializing and enforcing their IP rights.

We assist clients with both contentious and non-contentious aspects of intellectual property matters. In order to help our clients protect their intellectual property rights in the most effective way, we regularly provide consultancy services to the clients on non-contentious IP matters such as trademark, patent and copyright matters. We also provide support in preparing license and other agreements with a view to registering these rights in a timely and most accurate manner.

Also, we have the expertise in all contentious IP matters (including IP litigations) such as non-infringement claims, revocation lawsuits, criminal proceedings, lawsuits against Turkish Patent and Trademark Agency decisions, enforcement proceedings and counterfeiting issues and to take all the necessary actions to follow-up on the process before the prosecution offices and the courts.