Hansu Attorney Partnership is a full service law firm providing comprehensive legal service to local and international clients with its long years of experience. We are a corporate law firm consisting of professional lawyers who have demonstrated both technical and academic success in different areas. We assist our clients in their legal matters both in Turkey and abroad through our collaborations.
Hansu Attorney Partnership, with its offices in Istanbul and London, provides legal services to international clients in English and German. In addition, our firm has collaborations with leading offices in major cities such as Ankara and Izmir.
We offer legal services to our clients both at national and international level, primarily in the areas of construction and real estate, tourism, logistics, automotive, energy, digital retail, healthcare/medicine and medical device, fast moving consumer goods, chemical and petroleum products, education, arts and museology. Moreover, we provide services to public institutions and organizations as well as private companies operating nationally and internationally and public banks.
Our law firm has expertise in different areas of law including Commercial and Corporate Law, Real Estate and Construction, Administrative Law, Tax Law, Intellectual and Industrial Property Law, IT Law, Transport and Logistics Law, Insurance Law, International Investment Legal Consultancy, Project Development Legal Consultancy, Economic Criminal Law and Energy Law. In this context, we offer one-stop-shop service to our clients to meet their legal or technical needs and to provide the highest quality legal service anywhere in the world with the support of our overseas partners, if necessary.
As Hansu Attorney Partnership, we provide legal support at the stages of development, construction and operation of private and public investments as well as new generation investment projects such as shopping malls, hotels, solar-wind-thermal power plants, hospitals, Organized Industrial Zone and Techno Parks/Techno Finance, private universities and educational institutions, airports and sea ports. In this way, we are among the leading law firms in Turkey with our extensive experience in project development and business law.
Our law firm is also experienced in mergers and acquisitions thanks to its many years of expertise and competence in Corporate and Commercial Law. In this context, we provide legal advice in every stage of the mergers and acquisitions ranging from the preparation of the Legal Due Diligence reports for M&A projects, negotiation of share transfer agreements to the application for the necessary permissions to independent administrative authorities such as the Competition Authority, EMRA, and CMB etc.
In this regard, we advise our clients that operate internationally for obtaining the necessary approvals, permissions and grants from the relevant Turkish authorities regarding their projects and activities in Turkey and provide legal support on incentives that they can benefit from. Moreover, we have a professional legal team that identifies potential risks in advance and prevents the delay of the project during these administrative proceedings.
Hansu Attorney Partnership also provides the highest quality of legal service to international investors in Turkey related to the conflicts that may arise regarding their operational and corporate activities. We are also ranked as one of the top leadings law firms in Turkey for legal support to companies in the “startup” and “scaleup” stages, to Fintech initiatives aiming to offer financial services easier, efficient and faster, E-Commerce companies providing all kinds of food, clothing, cleaning products and similar needs from digital platforms through technology to digital customers with using LegalTech systems both supporting the companies to develop their infrastructure and to operate their business.
We are also one of the leading law firms in Turkey that provide the most authentic and high quality legal services to international companies in the field of intellectual property law through our experienced lawyers that are also registered as trademark and patent attorneys. In this context, our experienced lawyers offer their legal support for registration and protection of trademarks, patents, designs and copyrights as well as counterfeiting and piracy.
Hansu Attorney Partnership also represents its clients before national courts as well as ISTAC (Istanbul Arbitration Centre) and all arbitration and dispute resolution centres throughout the world with its experienced lawyers. Hansu Attorney Partnership’s academically and practically experienced lawyers assist its national and international clients at all stages of these dispute resolution processes.
Hansu Attorney Partnership is recognized as “Leading Firm” in the Legal 500 2021 EMEA Edition in the practice areas Real Estate & Construction and Intellectual Property. Our firm is also recommended in Mergers and Acquisitions and in Project Development: Energy by the 2021 and 2022 editions of IFLR 1000.
Our law firm has expertise in different areas of law including Commercial and Corporate Law, Real Estate and Rental Law, Administrative and Zoning Law, Tax Law, Intellectual and Industrial Property Law, Transport and Logistics Law, Insurance and Compensation Law, Foreign Investment Legal Consultancy, Project Development Legal Consultancy, Economic Criminal Law, Recovery of Debts, Energy Law and IT Law. In this context, we provide one-stop-shop service to our clients, meet all of our clients’ legal or technical needs and provide the highest quality legal service anywhere in the world with the support of our overseas partners, if necessary.
As Hansu Law Firm, we provide legal support at the stages of development, construction and operation of the land for private and public investments as well as new generation investment projects such as shopping malls, hotels, solar-wind-thermal power plants, hospitals, Organized Industrial Zone and Techno Parks / Techno Finance, private universities and educational institutions, airports and sea ports. In this way, we are among the leading law firms in Turkey with our extensive experience in project development and business law.
Our Law Firm is also very experienced in mergers and acquisitions thanks to its many years of experience and competence in Corporate and Commercial Law. In this context, we provide legal support in every stage regarding the mergers and acquisition processes, preparing the Legal Due Diligence reports for M&A’s, negotiating of share transfer agreements and getting the necessary permissions from independent administrative authorities such as the Competition Authority, EMRA, CMB etc.
In this regard, we provide legal service to our clients who operate internationally for receiving the necessary approvals, permissions, application process for licenses and grants from the relevant Turkish authorities for their projects and activities in Turkey and provide legal support on incentives that they can benefit from. Moreover, we are a professional legal team that identifies potential risks and errors in advance and prevents the delay of the project during these administrative proceedings.
Hansu Law Firm is also one of the law firms which provide the highest quality of legal service to Foreign Direct Investors in Turkey related to the conflicts that may arise regarding their operational and corporate activities as well as the aftermath of those activities. We also ranked as one of the top leadings law firms in Turkey for providing legal support to companies in the “startup” and “scaleup” stages; to Fintech initiatives who are aiming to provide financial services easier, efficient and faster; E-Commerce companies who provide all kinds of food, clothing, cleaning and similar needs from digital platforms through technology to digital customers with using LegalTech systems both supporting the companies to develop their infrastructure and to operate their business.
We are also one of the leading law firms in Turkey that provide the most authentic and high quality legal services to international companies in the field of intellectual property law through our experienced lawyers who are trademark and patent attorneys. In this context, our experienced lawyers offer their legal support for registration and protection of trademarks, patents, designs and copyrights as well as counterfeiting and piracy.
Our Law Firm also represent its clients in front of ISTAC (Istanbul Arbitration Centre) and all arbitration and dispute resolution centres throughout the world with its experienced lawyers as well as national courts. Hansu Law Firm’s academically and practically experienced lawyers assist its national and international clients at all stages of these dispute resolution processes.
Our Law Office, which operates under the Istanbul Bar Association, one of the largest bar associations in the world, is also available in Legal 500 2020 EMEA Publication. Our firm is also a member of Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (GYODER), the British Chamber of Commerce in Turkey (BCCT), TDAV-Turkish-German Lawyers Association, International Bar Association and the Turkish Belgian Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce. In addition, our Law Firm has been acting as a director of the legal department of the Association of Mineral Oil and Petroleum Products Industry (MAPESAD) and Coal Importers Association (KIAD) and acting as a main sponsor for development the first techno finance project in Turkey.
As Hansu Law Firm, we provide legal support at the stages of development, construction and operation of the land for private and public investments as well as new generation investment projects such as shopping malls, hotels, solar-wind-thermal power plants, hospitals, Organized Industrial Zone and Techno Parks / Techno Finance, private universities and educational institutions, airports and sea ports. In this way, we are among the leading law firms in Turkey with our extensive experience in project development and business law.
Legal Counseling
We provide comprehensive legal counselling service to our clients in order to prevent disputes that may arise related to their commercial activities or to resolve the possible disputes in favour of our clients.
Dispute Resolution
We provide legal services including amicable settlement (without judicial remedy) of disputes regarding our clients’ commercial activities, initiating the judicial procedure in order to protect the rights of our clients in disputes, follow-up of lawsuits filed against our clients and similar legal issues.
Non-Performing Receivables
We provide legal services including the legal evaluation, determination and reporting of receivables of our clients, negotiation with the debtors about their receivables, restructuring of the receivables. We also advise on the debt collection, submission of the necessary applications to judicial and administrative authorities and legal support for all transaction regarding the receivables.
Memberships
INTERNATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION
The International Bar Association is the world’s leading international membership organisation for legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies.
LEGAL500
Member of international platform Legal 500 established in 1987 and composed of prestigious law offices in more than 90 countries all over the world.
IFLR 1000
The IFLR1000 has been producing legal market intelligence since 1990 and remains the only international legal directory dedicated to ranking law firms and lawyers on the basis of financial and corporate transactional work
REAL ESTATE INVESTORS ASSOCIATION
As “Turkey’s Real Estate Platform”, GYODER gathers all sub-segments of Turkish real estate sector under the same roof.
TURKISH GERMAN LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
Turkish German Lawyers Association ensures solidarity among lawyers between Turkey and Germany relations between Turkey and Germany considering international investments from Germany as Turkey’s most important trading partner.
THE BRITISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN TURKEY
As one of Turkey’s oldest non-profit business organisations, BCCT, representing more than 300 businesspeople and companies, aims to contribute to the commercial and investment connections between Turkey and the United Kingdom.
THE ITALIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
CCIIST provides a wide range of services aimed to meet the needs of Italian and Turkish companies looking for starting or consolidating commercial relationships in both markets.
THE BELGO-LUXEMBOURG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN TURKEY
Member of the Association which plays a significant role in improving the commercial relationships between Belgium, Luxembourg and Turkey.
ISTANBUL ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION
ISTA is founded to provide a single platform for the leading arbitration practitioners in Turkey. Accordingly, ISTA aims to promote and popularise arbitration in Turkey and to make Istanbul one of the world’s leading arbitration centres.
MAPESAD
Representing the lubricant sector and being a part of the solution for the current problems of the sector, MAPESAD strives to raise the standards of lubricants and petroleum products in order to protect producers, consumers and the environment.