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A full service independent law firm specializing in commercial law.
Firm Profile
Liman Kurman is an independent Turkish law firm, aiming to provide high quality legal services to local and international companies, governmental agencies and financial institutions.
Liman Kurman provides legal services to local and global companies in several sectors and in a variety of practice areas. Please refer to the relevant section for further information.
PRACTICE
AREAS
CORPORATE LAW / MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Our corporate law practice includes advising and supporting our clients on all aspects of corporate law. Our practice involves company formation; company law; shareholders’ and directors’ liabilities; as well as other relevant legal issues related to company law. Significant part of our expertise is on direct foreign investments and the relevant corporate law issues required by such investors.
We advise on joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, teaming agreements and other alliances mostly between global players and local companies. We advise on both sides of these transactions and this experience enables us to acknowledge the requirements of the parties involved in such alliances.
COMPETITION LAW
Our competition law practice includes advising on mergers & acquisitions on different sectors and dealing with the legal notifications to the Competition Authority with respect to such transactions.
We also assist our clients on investigations made by the Competition Authority with respect to price-fixing, price discrimination, abuse of dominant position and other relevant competition law issues.
We advise our clients on their commercial agreements such as distribution, agency, licensing etc. which involve competition law aspects.
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Liman Kurman strives for excellence in litigation and dispute resolution. Commercial and corporate litigation, as well as labor litigation comprises the core of our litigation practice.
We assist our clients on commercial disputes; including contractual disputes such as distribution, agency; as well as construction disputes on major infrastructure projects.
Our litigation practice also includes unfair competition, liability and other commercial disputes as well as debt collection.
We assist our clients on recognition and enforcement of foreign court decisions in accordance with the Hague Convention and arbitral awards in accordance with the New York Convention to which Turkey is a party.
We represent clients before arbitral tribunals mainly in commercial disputes arising from construction and infrastructure disputes, subcontractor disputes in telecommunications and international investment issues.
CAPITAL MARKETS LAW
We advise our clients, comprising mainly of major listed companies, financial institutions and investment banks, on all capital markets related issues, including but not limited to IPOs, secondary public offerings, securities transactions.
Acquisition of listed companies, providing legal assistance on the implementation of mandatory and voluntary tender offers, exit and squeeze out rights and delisting of public companies comprise an important part of our practice.
We provide guidance to international investors in Turkish capital markets through our experienced staff and off-counsel who has more than 15 years of experience in the Capital Markets Board of Turkey.
COMMERCIAL LAW
We provide legal advice on all types of commercial agreements including sales, distribution, agency, licensing, franchising, outsourcing, research and development, logistics, packaging, supply, etc. We try to understand the needs of the sector and strive for perfection on our commercial practice.
Our clientele include local and global chemicals companies, industry companies, major hotels and global construction companies doing business in Turkey. We also assist local companies on their business investments and transactions mainly in Europe, Middle East and US through our distinguished network of qualified law firms.
Commercial litigation and arbitration is the core of our commercial law practice.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
We advise our clients on various topics of intellectual property such as patents and trademarks, copyrights, designs etc.
Litigation comprises the core of our intellectual property practice. We assist our clients before specialized intellectual property courts and commercial courts regarding trademark and copyright infringement cases; trade name infringement cases and breach of confidentiality and trade secret cases.
LABOR LAW & EMPLOYMENT
We provide labor law and employment advice to our clients on different sectors through specializing on the specific needs and requirements of such sector.
Our labor law practice includes advising clients on employment issues, drafting employment agreements, termination of employment agreements, collective bargaining agreements, etc. We provide legal guidance to our clients in their relationship with worker unions.
General tendency and principle to protect employees on labor litigation urges companies to take all necessary measures and follow up even slight details and procedures in every aspect of labor law. Our labor law practice initially aims to prevent any potential disputes, though eventually includes litigation both on first instance and appeal stages.
SPORTS LAW
Liman Kurman’s clients include major sports clubs in the Turkish professional leagues, sports associations governing certain Olympic sports, global broadcasting companies as well as professional football and other sports players.
Our practice includes;
· Advising on sponsorship agreements,
· Merchandising issues,
· International sports events such as the Tour of Turkey organized annually by the Turkish Cycling Federation.
· CAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport)
· Dispute resolution between players and clubs.
· Broadcasting agreements.
· Transfer agreements.
PARTNERS
ALTAN LİMAN
PARTNER
Education
Ankara University, School of Law
Amsterdam University, Law School
Languages
English
Turkish
Areas of Practice
Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Mergers and Acquisitions
Commercial Law
Labor Law
E-mail: altan@alkhukuk.com
UMUT KURMAN
PARTNER
Education
Ankara University, School of Law
Languages
English
German
Turkish
Areas of Practice
Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Real Estate Law
Intellectual Property Law
Personal Data Protection Law
E-mail: umut@alkhukuk.com
CONTACT
LIMAN KURMAN
OUR ADDRESS
Besa Kule K5 A18, 1480. Sok. No: 2
Çukurambar Çankaya,
Ankara, 06530, Türkiye
E-mail: info@alkhukuk.com
Tel: +90 312 466 66 62
Fax: +90 312 467 33 31