DEMIR & PARTNERS — Turkey

Abdullah Resul Demir

Attorney Demir primarily offers the following services: Legal counsel services for real and legal persons, contract preparation, revision and interpretation of contracts, conduct board meetings on behalf of our clients, preparing memorandums of association and establishing corporations and limited liability corporations, authorized signatory transactions, cancel, amend, alter or otherwise modify memorandums of association, general assembly operations, transfer and registration of shares, change of company type, mergers and acquisitions, and all other transactions in the scope of acquisitions in accordance with Corporate Law. Specifically in the field of Trademark Law, follow-up of Trademark Infringement and cancellation proceedings, survey of convenience for trademark registration, global trademark portfolio management, international trademark registration, trademark litigation, clearance and prosecution, brand protection strategies, registration and licensing, anti-counterfeiting, confiscation of counterfeit goods, and copyright litigation. Specifically in the field of Commercial Landlord-tenant Law, preparation of lease contracts for client’s property, follow-up procedures for collection of overdue rent, and eviction transactions. On behalf of the creditors and in particular the real estate owners, protecting the rights of our clients in cases of bankruptcy postponement. In the scope of Family Law, addressing cases of uncontested or contested divorce and division of matrimonial assets Work permit applications for foreigners, applications for citizenship and residency permits, carrying out finalization and renewal processes, Specializing in the fields of Corporate Law, Intellectual Property Law, and Real Estate Law and serve both foreign and local clients via legal counsel and legal proceedings · Corporate / M&A

Olcay Yılmaz

Att. Yılmaz primarily practices in the following areas: Dispute resolution related to delays, damages or missing items in the context of commodities transported either by local or international freight via road, railway, sea, or airway, resolution of disputes between the insurer and the insured in regards to legal liabilities for transporting loads by international forwarders as specified in the conditions and limits on insurance policies and for determining whether the insurer has gained right for the premiums and other related collections. Carrying out penal and legal solutions for protecting the intellectual property rights of companies and individuals, dealing with the processing of penal cases relating with TPE decisions, cases relating with inoperativeness of brands, providing solutions for issues in the context of patent rights, evidence configuration, conducting due diligence of patent rights, compensations, financial and spiritual indemnity cases, to seize products that are the subject of violation at the customs and other places, to carry out penal cases relating with violation of brand rights, dealing with complaints of prosecution, to obtain permits for making search, confiscations of imitation commodities, dealing with cases relating with the protection and cancellation of commercial titles, protecting mainly the rights of owners of creations as regards to the intellectual and artistic creations law and for dealing with related compensations and searching for ways to avoid such occurrences, following up penal cases relating with violations of financial and spiritual rights of owners of creations, Taking on cases of severance pay, notices, bad faith compensation cases, unpaid wages cases, cases related to services rendered, cases of returning to work, financial and spiritual indemnity cases, filing claims for violation of prohibition of competitors, and following them up. In addition, Attorney Yılmaz provides legal consultancy to clients and gives utmost importance in answering their queries -written or verbally-, reviewing contracts and preparing them in line with requests, preparing contracts between the employers and employees and reviewing them, and if requested attending meetings and providing legal support for protecting the rights of the clients. · Shipping & Transport

Semih Yüksel

He primarily works on the following topics: Execution of the follow-up processes of enforcement cases such as accounts receivable, accounts payable, compulsory liquidations, etc. Following the completion processes of the movable and immovable property sales Following bankruptcy / liquidation processes Furthermore, Attorney Yüksel has carried out Consumer Protection cases against large companies in a wide array of industries, including thermotechnology and otomotive. · Enforcement & Debt Recovery

Taner Demir

Attorney Demir primarily practices in the following fields: Mergers and acquisitions, contract preparation for transfer of shares, company type re-registration, preparing deeds of partnership, organizing foreign investments in Turkey, preparing common entrepreneurial contracts Preparing contracts for Turkish and foreign companies in compliance with international law, providing counsel regarding foreign capital investments to be made locally or abroad, taxes, corporate law and legislations and preparing the necessary infrastructure, distributorship, franchising and preparing similar contracts Settlements arising from the loss or damage of commodities transported by international or local forwarders via road, sea, airway, or railway, particularly dealing with dispute settlement between the insurer and the insured in regard to legal compliance for carriers of international road transport as specified by the insurance policies with certain conditions and limits, determining whether the insuring company gained right to obtain premiums and collections, In regard to the protection of Intellectual Property Rights of Companies and Individuals and as part of the scope for applying penal and legal ways, dealing with cases relating to TPE decisions and brand inoperativeness, determining whether brand rights were violated or not, to avoid such occurrences, to make up for them, dealing with financial or spiritual indemnity cases, to seize commodities which are the subject of violation at the customs or other places, to carry out penal cases relating to violation of brand rights, complaints of jurisdiction, taking decisions to make investigations, confiscation of imitation commodities, protecting commercial title, cases for cancellations, especially protecting the rights of those who create works as regards to Intellectual and Artistic Works Law and to cover for the violations and to avoid them and follow up the penal cases and requests for indemnification relating to violations for financial and spiritual. · Corporate / M&A