Dikbaş Hukuk Law Office

Our Areas of Practice

Our office provides legal advisory, contract review and drafting, negotiation support, dispute management and litigation services, principally in the following areas:

• Commercial law
• Company law
• Mergers, demergers, share transfers and restructuring processes
• Real estate law
• Construction law
• Banking and finance law
• International contracts
• Investment processes and investment disputes
• Distributorship, agency and dealership relationships
• Supply, sale, service and framework contracts
• Cross-border commercial transactions
• Resolution of international disputes
• Corporate advisory and legal risk management

The services we provide in these areas are not limited to drafting legal documents or pursuing existing disputes. We aim to bring a legal perspective to our clients’ decision-making, to identify the risks that may arise in contract, investment, financing, shareholding and commercial structuring processes before they materialise, and to develop effective legal measures against those risks.

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A Strategic and Practical Legal Approach

We believe that legal advice is not merely the explanation of statutory provisions; it must be assessed together with the client’s commercial objectives, sector, business model, financial conditions and the risks they face.

For that reason, in every advisory and dispute process we first analyse the matter as a whole, setting out the root causes of the legal problem, its likely consequences and the routes to resolution available. We attach importance to the opinions, contracts, legal reviews and litigation strategies we prepare being clear, intelligible, workable and responsive to the client’s needs.

We aim to contribute not only to resolving our clients’ current problems, but also to ensuring they do not meet similar legal risks in future. To that end we provide comprehensive legal support in managing contractual processes preventively, reviewing internal decision-making and authority mechanisms, placing commercial relationships on legally secure ground and reducing the likelihood of dispute.

In litigation and dispute processes we weigh negotiation, settlement, mediation, arbitration and recourse to the courts together according to the nature of the dispute, and focus on identifying the method best suited to the client’s legal and commercial interests.

Our International Working Model

Dikbaş Hukuk Law Office works on a coordinated basis in legal matters of an international character, across the laws of different countries and cross-border transaction practice. In this context we act in cooperation with lawyers and professional advisers operating in a number of countries, principally Italy and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Our international working model makes it possible to assess together the interaction between different legal systems, the character of the commercial transaction and the practices of the countries in which the parties are located. This allows a more comprehensive legal assessment in matters of incorporation or structuring abroad, shareholding relationships, investment processes, international contracts, supply and distribution chains, financing transactions and cross-border disputes.

These cooperations are conducted with regard to each country’s professional rules on the provision of legal services and to the limits of authority that apply. Where necessary, assessments concerning the law of the country in question are handled in coordination with lawyers competent and authorised in that legal system. In this way we aim to offer our clients coordinated, multidisciplinary working that brings together local legal knowledge and international transaction experience.

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Cross-Border Commercial Transactions and Investment Processes

The increasing diversity of global commercial relationships leads companies to form partnerships abroad, invest, procure goods and services, or join international distribution networks. Such transactions may require the laws of more than one country, different contractual practices and various dispute-resolution mechanisms to be taken into account at the same time.

As companies expand abroad, our office provides legal support in assessing the structure of the transaction, setting out the parties’ rights and obligations clearly in contract, determining powers and responsibilities, and settling the governing law and the method of dispute resolution.

In particular, for investment agreements, joint ventures, share transfers, distributorship and agency relationships, supply contracts, service contracts, licence and cooperation agreements and financing documents, we develop contractual solutions that protect the parties’ commercial objectives, anticipate risks and reduce the likelihood of dispute.

In international transactions we attach importance not only to drafting the contract text, but to addressing as a whole the provisions on payment and delivery terms, securities, limitations of liability, confidentiality obligations, intellectual property rights, protection of personal data, the conditions on which the contract ends, and the forum or method by which disputes are to be resolved.

Litigation and Dispute Resolution

In disputes to which our clients are party, we assess the legal character of the dispute together with its commercial effects. Before proceedings are issued, examining the available evidence, the contractual relationships, limitation and forfeiture periods, procedural preconditions and likely counterclaims is important to forming an effective dispute strategy.

Within that framework we support our clients in the preliminary assessment of the dispute, the preparation of legal opinions, the conduct of formal notices and replies, the management of negotiations, participation in mediation meetings, the conduct of litigation and enforcement proceedings, the management of evidence and documents, and applications to the appellate routes.

Rather than always committing to a single method, we act according to the nature of the dispute, the commercial relationship between the parties, time and cost factors and the client’s priorities. Where maintaining the relationship between the parties is possible and meaningful, we weigh the options of negotiation and settlement; where recourse to the courts or to arbitration is necessary, we weigh an effective and comprehensive litigation strategy.

Our aim is to develop measured, realistic and workable solutions that protect our clients’ rights and interests in law while also taking account of the commercial consequences of the dispute.

Corporate Advisory and Risk Management

Within our corporate advisory work we identify the legal risks companies may face at different stages, from day-to-day operations to long-term investment and growth plans. Incorporation, shareholding structures, management and representation powers, general assembly and board resolutions, share transfers, capital transactions, commercial contracts and internal company practices may all be assessed in this context.

By setting out the risks specific to our clients’ field of activity, we aim to manage legal processes as preventively as possible. This approach contributes to reducing disputes that might otherwise arise, making decision-making processes more secure, establishing contractual relationships on clear and balanced terms, and using company resources more effectively.

In legal review work we do not confine ourselves to assessing compliance with current legislation; we also address practical difficulties, ambiguities in contracts and corporate documents, conflicts of authority and responsibility, difficulties that may arise in matters of proof, and the consequences that may follow in the event of a dispute.

Our Working Principles

As Dikbaş Hukuk Law Office, we carry out our work in line with the following fundamental principles:

• Client focus: We assess every legal matter in line with the client’s concrete needs and objectives.
• Preventive approach: Beyond producing solutions once a dispute has arisen, we attach importance to identifying and reducing legal risks in advance.
• Strategic assessment: We develop workable solutions by addressing legal, commercial and economic factors together.
• Clear and intelligible communication: We convey the likely outcomes, options and risks of legal processes as plainly as possible.
• Multidisciplinary working: Where required, we work in coordination with lawyers from other fields and with professional advisers.
• International perspective: In cross-border transactions we take account of the effects of different legal systems and of international commercial practice.
• Diligence and confidentiality: We act within our obligations of professional diligence, legal privilege and confidentiality.