Ersözlü was established in 2002 with the objective of being a part of a team by preserving individuality.

Bringing dynamism together with experience, knowledge with youth and theory with practice, and acting in a guiding manner, Ersözlü adopted it as a philosophy to reach the most effective and permanent legal solution.

Having a fast, logical and most importantly, a multi-dimensional expert perspective, Ersözlü aims to be innovative, different and opposite of the clichés deeply-rooted in law. 

• It provides consultancy services for many domestic, foreign and multi-national companies and represents them in courts and execution offices including multi-national arbitration cases.
• Legal practice and legal consultancy services are rendered in Turkish, English and French.
• It works resolutely in order to establish permanent relationships with its clients and provide them with the extensive legal services they need with its continuously improving team in terms of profession and always abiding by the professional rules and ethics
• It offers legal service in two main fields: consultancy and settlement of disputes.

Legal practice and legal consultancy services can briefly be summarized as follows:

• Establishment of foreign-capital company, branch and contact office
• Mergers and acquisitions, operation of ports
• Management of shopping malls
• Contracts on long-term foreign-sourced loans
• Project financing
• Restructuring companies
• Establishing and managing off-shore companies
• Free zone implementation
• Organizing distributing networks within and outside of the country
• Competition board applications
• Transforming companies into to publicly held companies
• Energy projects
• Build-operate-transfer (BOT) formulas
• Preparing all kinds of contracts and General Assembly documents in relation to the operation of companies
• Registration and protective tracking of intellectual rights including trademarks and patents
• Obtaining any kind of required permissions regarding factories and business organizations
• Registration of air and sea transportation vehicles in the related registries in Turkey and abroad.

Legal practice services related to settlement of disputes can be summarized briefly as follows:

• Representation of local and foreign companies in many arbitration cases that take place with regard to ICC, FIDIC, IGPA, FOSFA, GAFTA, LIVERPOL COTTON ASSOCIATION, HAMBURG BÖRSE and Izmir Chamber of Commerce.
• In addition, ERSÖZLÜ has significant amount of experience regarding commercial disputes.
• Furthermore, this law firm has gained vast experience in company law, labor law, insurance law and execution and bankruptcy law as well as settlement of disputes since it has different insurance companies and many private companies included in its client portfolio.
• Additionally, ERSÖZLÜ provides service through multi-national law offices with which it cooperates on collection of receivables from foreign countries. It has succeeded to collect foreign receivables of many exporter companies in a short time.

COMPANY LAW

Ersözlü has been providing a wide range of legal services about Company Law, to domestic and international companies operating in various sectors.

Within this scope, services are offered to companies in all phases including

• establishment,
• operation,
• restructuring,
• mergers and acquisitions,
• termination and liquidation.

These services also include registration of foreign-capital companies in the Republic of Turkey and establishment of branches and liaison offices of foreign-resident companies in Turkey.

Moreover, Ersözlü renders legal consultancy services required by the companies for their daily corporate needs. The core practice areas in which Ersözlü has broad experience are listed below:

• Preparing Board of Directors’ decisions
• Convening general assembly meetings
• Obtaining all kinds of licenses and permits regarding to the operations of the companies
• Conducting registration procedures
• Managing legal relationships with workers
• Preparing commercial contracts

The most creative, economical and fastest solutions are offered to the clients in dispute resolutions that the companies may encounter during their operation.

Guiding consultancy services with commercial approaches are provided regarding to the establishment of legal and structural systems in order to ensure the most convenient operation for the client companies.