

Akkas & Associates Turkish Law Firm
Eski Uskudar Yolu Cad.
Ozis A Blok No:21/4
Kozyatagi, Istanbul 34752
Turkey
ph: +90 216 469 6363
fax: +90 216 572 3855
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Akkas & Associates Law Firm’s Business and Corporate Law Group represents the firm’s business clients (including corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, sole proprietorships, and not-for-profit organizations) with respect to all types and aspects of commercial transactions and business-related legal issues. Akkas & Associates Law Firm attorneys have extensive experience in advising clients on formation of corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, and joint ventures, in addition to the preparation of purchase order, warranty, and other commercial forms.
Akkas & Associates Law Firm attorneys also regularly assist clients in complying with governmental regulatory requirements and in negotiating and drafting franchise agreements, equipment lease or purchase agreements, licensing and intellectual property agreements, supply agreements, sales representation agreements, management or services agreements, and requirement and output contracts. We also have significant experience in assisting, advising, and representing clients in commercial divorces and settlements, in structuring buy/sell arrangements among business owners, and in negotiating and drafting agreements to address management and control issues.
Akkas & Associates Law Firm attorneys have the expertise to assist all types of companies, from start-ups to multinational conglomerates, in meeting their day-to-day commercial and business needs, including, but not limited to, sale of goods, commercial paper, and letter of credit or bulk transfer issues. Akkas & Associates Law Firm prides itself on responding quickly to the needs of its clients to assist them in taking full advantage of business opportunities that may arise in their day-to-day operations.
Akkas & Associates Law Firm attorneys in the Business and Commercial Law Group work closely with the firm’s litigation attorneys to provide support and expertise in commercial litigation. This ensures that all the needs of the firm’s clients are met in a coordinated manner, whether those needs relate to business law, litigation, or both.
We advise and draft documents in connection with the formation and governance of corporations, limited liability companies, business trusts and partnerships, including general partnerships, limited partnerships and registered limited liability partnerships. We also assist in the formation and financings of joint ventures. Advice is provided as to both the choice of entity and Turkish laws under which the entity is to be organized.
We counsel with directors and officers of corporations, partnerships and other entities as to their fiduciary duties. In conjunction with the firm's Litigation section, we work on fiduciary duty disputes.
In many circumstances, advice concerning entities relates to larger, more complex transactions, including joint ventures among owners and developers of intellectual property, capital equipment manufacturers and those deploying that equipment, owners and developers of real property or energy interests and developing businesses and those providing capital to them. In all of those situations our attorneys' ability to call upon the resources of the Firm's other practice areas is of value to clients. In conjunction with our employee benefits, labor and tax attorneys, we assist clients with employment agreements, stock option, retirement and other employee benefit plans.
Today, clients are faced with unprecedented challenges as new laws and regulations are changing the way the corporate world works. Akkas & Associates Turkish Law Firm has one of the preeminent corporate governance practices in Turkey, drawing upon the expertise of our corporate, securities, governance, litigation, and compensation specialists to provide our clients with the information and analysis needed to respond to a rapidly changing regulatory environment. Our attorneys are experienced in all aspects of governance counseling including board and board committee composition, process and independence. We constantly develop our knowledge of new regulations that impact the needs of our clients.
We maintain a unsurpassed practice counseling and representing public and private companies and boards of directors regarding entity formation and corporate governance matters. We advise our public and private clients on all matters concerning formation of new entities from corporate formalities to tax issues.
We regularly advise clients with respect to the formation of companies. Our services with respect to company formation include advising and drafting documents in connection with the formation of corporations, limited liability companies, business trusts and partnerships, including general partnerships, limited partnerships and registered limited liability partnerships. We provide targeted advice with respect to both the choice of entity and Turkish laws under the entity is to be organized.
We also advise our public company clients on a full range of securities law and related matters, including the disclosure and regulatory obligations under the Securities Law, the rules of the national securities exchanges and associations, as well as other corporate governance rules. Our clients range from small private companies with no internal legal staff to large public companies with their own internal compliance teams. For each of our clients we tailor our approach to that client's unique requirements.
Akkas & Associates Turkish Law Firm
Eski Uskudar Yolu Cad.
Ozis A Blok No:21/4
Kozyatagi, Istanbul 34752
Turkey
ph: +90 216 469 6363
fax: +90 216 572 3855
info