Gökçe is an independent law firm with
 full-service capacity based in Istanbul. Gökçe offers a broad range of legal
 services with a pragmatic and business-minded approach to meet the needs of its
 diverse client base, ranging from the most reputable international banks to
 rapidly expanding international companies. Since its establishment in 2010,
 Gökçe has been experiencing constant progress. Established mostly with the aim
 to specialize in technology law, Gökçe has garnered a solid reputation for its
 expertise in technology and media. Moreover, Gökçe has become a go-to law firm
 for high-profile commercial disputes. Gökçe is the Turkish representative of
 Interlaw, a highly ranked international law firm network. Gökçe is also a member of Lawyers
 Associated Worldwide, a global resource of locally respected law firms. As the last groundbreaking progress,
 Gökçe team published the first E-Sports Law book in Turkey. Gökçe has bolstered its IP, media and
 entertainment practice in 2021.

















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Main Areas of Practice

 

Technology, Media, Communication &amp;
 Privacy

Gökçe’s TMC &amp; Privacy team’s
 reputation is built on delivering commercial and practical legal advice to
 clients active in the digital sphere in various industries, ranging from
 multinational Global 2000 enterprises to venture capitals and start-ups. With a
 highly qualified team, Gökçe’s scope of services covers broad range of matters
 including matters of IT law, internet law, cybersecurity law,
 telecommunications law, intellectual property law, consumer law, e-commerce and
 data protection. Team members frequently provide mentoring to
 emerging growth companies at leading start-up incubators and accelerators
 including İTÜ Çekirdek and Endeavor Turkey. Clients such as Hilton, N11, Nimo.tv
 (HUYA), All Stars Music, Eternal Fire, Onedio, Inofab, Evreka, Figopara are all
 widely recognized game changers in their respective industries; and Gram Games
 (a Zynga company), Masomo, Miniclip, and Codeway Games, all prominent actors in
 the e-gaming industry. The TMC &amp; Privacy team is led by Turkish IT and
 Privacy Law “star” Dr. Bedii Kaya, along with his deep expertise in data
 analysis, data protection, cybersecurity, and internet law.&nbsp;In 2021, Gökçe strengthened its Media, Entertainment
 and IP practice with representing and providing legal consultancy to its
 international and domestic clients for their IP related projects including
 cross border licensing, IP portfolio management, linear channels and VOD
 platforms, NFT projects, IP/IT related dispute resolutions, due diligence
 processes, merger &amp; acquisitions in media &amp; entertainment sectors, data
 protection requirements in Turkey, local compliances and so on. Corporate, M&amp;A &amp; Venture Capital 
 Corporate, M&amp;A and Venture Capital
 team focuses on large to middle-market cross border and domestic corporate
 transactions in various industries. Gökçe advises on a range of corporate
 issues including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, venture capital
 transactions, corporate restructurings, spin-offs and corporate governance.
 Clients include Farasis Energy (Ganzhou), Figopara, Gedik Yatırım, hiVC,
 WorleyParsons, and Çelebi Holding. Team members are also highly adept in growth
 investment transactions and represent founder-led technology companies, from
 early stage all the way up to growth phase and exit.



Gökçe
 advised:

<ul style="list-style-type: square;"><li style="margin-left: 20px;">FIT Solutions (Foriba) founders on the sale of their shares to Sovos, a
 leading global tax compliance and regulatory reporting software company </li><li style="margin-left: 20px;"> Gram Games, a leading Turkish mobile game company on the acquisition by Zynga
 Inc 
 </li><li style="margin-left: 20px;">Four Mobile (Masomo) in the acquisition by Tencent owned mobile games
 developer Miniclip 
 </li><li style="margin-left: 20px;">Gameguru on the sale of one of its most downloaded hyper casual games
 (namely, Slap Kings) to Lion Studios 
 </li><li style="margin-left: 20px;">HI Venture Capital a licensed venture capital investment company in its
 establishment 
 </li><li style="margin-left: 20px;">Various emerging growth companies on financings by private equity giants and
 growth/venture capital investors such as EBRD, IFC, Revo Capital, Endeavor, 500
 Startups and Growth Circuit 
 </li><li style="margin-left: 20px;">Evreka, an outstanding waste collection solutions SaaS company 
 </li><li style="margin-left: 20px;">Neo Auvra, a pioneering medical health company 
 </li><li style="margin-left: 20px;">Figopara, a major fintech company acting as intermediary for trade finance
 transactions 
 </li><li style="margin-left: 20px;">Inofab, an innovative medical device company 
 </li><li style="margin-left: 20px;">Onedio, a prominent Turkish online content provider</li></ul>

 Banking &amp; Finance &amp; Capital Markets 
 Gökçe has extensive experience in
 banking &amp; finance and capital markets transactions, particularly in project
 financings.

On
 the banking side, Gökçe provides international and local banks with legal
 advice on daily operational issues, multilateral and bilateral institutional
 support, equity fund investment and credit enhancement. On the finance side,
 Gökçe acts for both Turkish and foreign banks in a large spectrum of financing
 transactions, including domestic and cross-border transactions. On the capital
 markets side Gökçe’s practice covers the full range of transactions.Team
 members have represented İş Bankası, Vakıfbank, Ziraat Bankası, OdeaBank, TSKB,
 T-Bank, Fibabanka, Gedik Yatırım, Worldpay, CBH Compagnie Bancaire
 Helvétiqueand Nurol Holding on various project finance and financial
 restructuring transactions including energy sector, infrastructure, real estate
 project financing, acquisition financing and other types of asset financing. Dispute Resolution 
 Gökçe has profound knowledge and
 experience in litigation, especially in commercial and IP related disputes.
 Gökçe represented N11(Doğuş), NRC International, FIT Solutions, Celebi
 Aviation, BBraun, V-Count, Onedio, Trendbox, ASB Modern, Seacor Holding on
 various commercial disputes.



Employment 
 Gökçe’s employment team has an extensive
 expertise in handling the full spectrum of employment and labour law issues. It
 advises numerous clients including Biopipe, Evreka, Gram Games (a Zynga
 company), Codeway Games, Alba Prestige, Alictus and various company
 directors/managers on:
 <ul style="list-style-type: square;"><li style="margin-left: 20px;">Employment Contracts</li><li style="margin-left: 20px;">Termination of Employment </li><li style="margin-left: 20px;"> Employment Disputes
 </li><li style="margin-left: 20px;">Settlement of Disputes
 </li><li style="margin-left: 20px;">Social Security Disputes</li></ul>

 Debt Recovery &amp; Debt Collection 
 Gökçe has a wide practice of debt
 collection activities including foreclosure proceedings, primarily conducted
 for high volume commercial receivables of its clients. Gökçe represents Çelebi
 Aviation, Alpla, Seacor Holding, Geniks Kongre, Özak Global, B-Braun.

Criminal Law 
 Gökçe’s criminal law team represents
 clients in complex criminal law matters in relation to commercial fraud, white
 collar, financial, cyber, reconstruction crimes and data protection offenses.
 Gökçe’s criminal law clientele includes well-known individuals in Turkey.

Gökçe

Dr. Kaya works as a full-time faculty member with the
 Department of Information and Technology Law of Istanbul University Faculty of
 Law. He holds LLB from Istanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Law, LLM in
 Internet Law from Istanbul Bilgi University and PhD in Law from the University
 of Nottingham (UK) School of Law. 

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His expertise covers a wide range of IT
 law matters and his principal research interest lies in the fields of Internet
 law, cyber-security law, data protection law, digital forensics, electronic
 communications law, with a particular focus on the correlation between
 technology and law. 

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His research interests currently
 revolve around law, governance, and ethics, in particular the role law and
 technology play in data analytics and emerging technologies. In the area of
 Internet law, he has special research interest and expertise on intermediary
 liability, Internet content regulations, deep packet inspection (DPI)
 technologies, and digital surveillance in general. He currently heads up IT Law
 research team at Istanbul Bilgi University IT Law Institute which is also a
 member of Network of Interdisciplinary Internet &amp; Society Research Centers
 (Network of Centers).

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Dr. Kaya has 4 different books, namely
 "Electronic Commercial Law-Commercial Messages", "Internet
 Law", "Personal Data Protection Law" and "Blocking Internet
 Access". Dr. Kaya has updated his work “Internet Law” within 2021 and 2022
 by including the novice regulations, decisions and such work has become an
 inevitable resource for everyone practicing in this field. In addition, he has
 researches and articles in different fields such as domain name disputes,
 European Union cyber security regulations and protection of personal data in
 public services. Practice Areas &amp; Work Department

Fintech 

Media &amp; Entertainment 

Startup Law &amp; Entrepreneurship

Technology &amp; Telecoms

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Languages

Turkish

English

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Memberships

Network of Interdisciplinary Internet &amp; Society
 Research Centers (Network of Centers)

Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet)

Public Procurement Law Academic Network (PLAN)

Partner and Head of TMT&Privacy 

Görkem is a graduate of Uskudar
 American Academy and Istanbul University Law School. As a part of his graduate
 studies, he took commercial law courses at Harvard University, US. After
 working for a reputable Turkish law firm as an intern and Dentons as an
 associate respectively, in 2010, he decided to continue his career through his
 own practice and established Gokce Attorneys at Law which later became Gokce
 Attorney Partnership. Görkem was involved in a variety of international mergers
 and acquisitions, joint venture, private equity, and venture capital and
 project finance transactions as well as privatizations in Turkey. He
 represented local and international clients before Turkish courts on various
 commercial disputes. He has key expertise in technology and internet-based
 businesses. He has also extensive experience in aviation law. Görkem advised
 various multi-national companies. Görkem is a member of the <a name="_Hlk121144153" style="">British – Turkish Lawyers Association </a>and acted as the
 Secretary to the Association between 2008 and 2009. He is also a member of <a name="_Hlk121144174" style="">International Technology Law Association</a>, acts as
 Turkey’s Local Representative. Görkem is the first Associate Member from Turkey
 admitted to the <a name="_Hlk121144198" style="">Esports Bar Association</a> and is the
 founding Chairman of <a name="_Hlk121144226" style="">Turkish Internet and Technology
 Law Association</a>. He is a Supervisory Board member at <a name="_Hlk121144251" style="">Endeavor
 Turkey</a>. He has been giving lectures on administrative law at the Training
 Center of the <a name="_Hlk121144272" style="">Istanbul Bar Association</a> since 2009.
 He is a regular speaker at Turkish law schools.

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He has key expertise in technology and
 internet-based businesses, he also represents his clients on several complex
 and voluminous commercial disputes. He provides legal consultancy on
 compliance, intellectual property, internet, IT and technology sectors to
 several Turkish and foreign clients.

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Görkem is the author of the first book
 on e-sports law in Turkey. Also, his book on space law, namely “Space Law:
 Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow” has recently been published within 2022. Practice Areas &amp; Work Department

Commercial, Corporate and M&amp;A

Fintech

Media &amp; Entertainment

Startup Law &amp; Entrepreneurship

Technology &amp; Telecoms

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Languages

Turkish

English

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Memberships

British
 – Turkish Lawyers Association

International
 Technology Law Association

E-Sports
 Bar Association

Turkish
 Internet and Technology Law Association

Endeavor
 Turkey

Istanbul
 Bar Association

European
 Criminal Bar Assocation

European
 Fraud and Compliance Lawyers

International
 Association of Entertainment Lawyers

Managing Partner

As an independent full-service law firm, KAVLAK provides
solutions and practical approaches for a wide range of legal issues to domestic
and international clients since 2006. Our team is experienced in providing
specialist expertise to clients based in the USA, UK and EMEA to reach their
significant potential for global expansion. KAVLAK has a high reputation in
providing legal services to innovative, technology-driven businesses.Our lawyers are recognized for practical legal and business
guidance and provide unique customized commercial advice to your business. We
have extensive experience and interdisciplinary approach to advising start-ups
on company formation, equity structures, Investments, IP rights and other
topics vital to their success. Over the
years, we have built a long track record of working in key industries and
markets, mainly legaltech, fintech, ecommerce, big data, supply chain
management &amp; logistics, AI, B2B software and leisure &amp;
entertainment.&nbsp;We provide legal
consultancy services to our clients by utilising our global network of start-up
ecosystem.

Kavlak Law Firm

Hande graduated
with a double major Bachelor's degree in Law and Economics from Bahçeşehir
University in 2019. She has been working at Kavlak Law Firm since 2021, focusing
on commercial and corporate law, contracts law, capital markets and start-up
law. She provides legal assistance to local and multinational clients on
company establishments, corporate governance, commercial agreements, share
transfer and shareholders’ agreements. Practice Areas &amp; Work Department

Corporate Law

Start-up Law

Capital Markets Law

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Languages

Turkish 

English

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Memberships

GEN Turkey&nbsp;

Keiretsu Turkey&nbsp;

Startup Watch&nbsp;

GYİAD&nbsp;&nbsp;

TEİD&nbsp;

ASHOKAEndeavor Turkey&nbsp;

Attorney at Law

Merve Gürsoy Dereli has been a lawyer for over 12 years.
 Merve is experienced in corporate law, and she provides consultancy services to
 its domestic and foreign clients in many fields such as commercial law,
 contract law, start-up law, restructuring projects especially MA’s. Practice Areas &amp; Work Department

Corporate Law

Commercial Law

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Languages

English

German

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Memberships

Istanbul Bar Association

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