Contributors Biçer Güner Attorneys at Law

Biçer Güner stands as an all-encompassing, independent Turkish law firm with full-service capacity established in Istanbul, Türkiye. Boasting unparalleled expertise across a diverse spectrum of organizations and industry domains, the Biçer Güner team possesses an unmatched breadth and depth of knowledge when it comes to handling transactions.

Biçer Güner proudly represents multinational corporations, international media entities, and esteemed local clients within the market. Over the past +18 years, Biçer Güner team has actively represented both private and public sector clients in a multitude of significant international transactions and foreign investments executed within Türkiye. These ventures encompass mergers and acquisitions, energy projects, project financing, public offerings, and PPP projects as well as debt offerings.

Main Areas of Practice

Corporate/M&A, Joint Ventures and Privatizations

Biçer Güner advises its clients in a broad range of major domestic and cross-border transactions/investments and has been advising both strategic and financial investors in their mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, asset sales/acquisitions and spin-offs. Our team has solid experience in assisting its clients on their M&A transactions involving both regulated and non-regulated sectors including technology, media and telecommunications, retail, energy, packaging, construction, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics. Our team has worked in major privatization projects including PETKIM, Tupras, Turkseker, Turk cement factories’ privatizations.

Technology, Media, Telecommunications

Biçer Güner advises the leading global media, technology and telecommunication companies on regulatory, operational and strategic matters. The experience of our team in this field extends to different areas of TMT including data protection and privacy, e-commerce, broadcasting, satellite services, electronic communication services and anti-piracy legislation.

Our team represents its clients before the regulatory authorities such as Radio and Television Supreme Council, Information Technologies and Communication Authority, Personal Data Protection Authority and has unique expertise in advising global media clients on the structuring of their business in Türkiye in compliance with the Turkish laws.

Intellectual Property

Biçer Güner has a team with vast expertise in intellectual property law and offers comprehensive legal assistance across all matters of this field, including but not limited to copyright, trademarks, designs, and patents. Biçer Güner delicately assists its clients in drafting, negotiating and enforcing a wide variety of intellectual law related contracts. Biçer Güner's litigation team has an excellent track record in representing its clients in intellectual property law related disputes.

By harmonizing its deep knowledge of TMT and entertainment, our team represents its clients in numerous issues, including but not limited to protecting intellectual property rights of television programs, navigating through complications of registration with Turkish authorities, addressing intellectual property infringements, structuring licensing agreements, and manages transfer of intellectual property rights.

Banking, Finance & Capital Markets

Biçer Güner advises major international and domestic financial institutions and major international borrowers on project and acquisition financing, trade finance, real estate finance, syndicated loans and secured financing. Our team is also quite experienced in murabaha syndications. Our team also represented their clients in the sale and acquisition of major Turkish banks and have extensive experience and knowledge of the regulatory aspects of banking operations in Türkiye.

Biçer Güner team is also experienced in capital markets regulatory compliance, equity and debt offerings, securitizations and derivatives and advising issuers, financial institutions, and private equities.

Data Protection

Biçer Güner advises its clients in all aspects of data protection law including carrying out data protection due diligence exercises to identify their data processing activities and irregularities, preparing/updating data protection policies and data inventories, realizing/updating VERBIS (Turkish Data Controllers’ Registry) registrations, providing data protection training to employees/directors of the clients, assisting its clients on the drafting of responses upon the complaints of data subjects to the Turkish Data Protection Authority. Biçer Güner team also represents its clients on data protection related disputes.

Employment

Biçer Güner has a highly specialized team in both individual and collective labor law. Our team advises its clients on drafting, negotiation, and termination of complex employment agreements, including with key employees. Furthermore, our team advises its clients on collective bargaining issues and successfully represents them in the negotiations with labor unions. Our team also has solid experience in advising its clients on the employment law aspects of local and/or cross-border M&A transactions.

Biçer Güner possesses substantial expertise in realizing collective dismissals, termination of employment agreements, and restructuring of workplaces. Our team assists its clients in crafting internal employment regulations, comprehensive guidelines as well as benefit plans. Our team has extensive experience in immigration law and successfully assists its clients in work and residence permit application processes.

Our team successfully manages legal exposures and navigates its clients out of challenging situations. Biçer Güner is fully capable of conducting compliance reviews and thorough legal audits aimed at identifying both criminal and civil law liabilities in cases of white-collar irregularities Our team is representing its clients before the civil and criminal courts due to suspected white collar crime.

Dispute Resolution & Litigation

Biçer Güner delivers prompt, pragmatic, and highly efficient legal counsel to its clients in dispute resolution and litigation. Biçer Güner has an excellent track-record across a spectrum of legal domains, encompassing civil, criminal, and administrative litigation pertinent to TMT, entertainment, press, commercial affairs, breach of contract, intellectual property, unfair competition, enforcement and bankruptcy proceedings, labour law, debt recovery, consumer protection, code of obligations, as well as constitutional law and fundamental human rights.

Through the seamless fusion of international corporate legal expertise and a wealth of litigation experience, Biçer Güner effectively anticipates and manages legal risks, enabling proactive risk mitigation and optimal dispute resolution. Clients benefit from Biçer Güner’s robust legal proficiency that ensures the enforcement of all legal remedies.

Biçer Güner represents international and Turkish clients in their settlement negotiations and arbitration proceedings.

Real Estate

Biçer Güner offers top-notch legal services in Turkish real estate law to both local and global investors. Biçer Güner’s services encompass various aspects of real estate, including but not limited to buying, selling, and leasing properties for residential or commercial use, ensuring compliance with planning and zoning regulations, establishing real estate investment firms, and participating in significant residential and hotel projects.