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PRACTISE AREAS

  • Banking and Finance Law

  • International Law

  • Tax Law

  • Commercial Law

Our experienced Banking & Finance practice team provides clients with legal assistance on a wide range of matters, including: Banking and Finance, Dispute Resolution, Debt Restructuring, Financial Services, Investment Funds & Structures, Angel Investments, Project Finance, Real Estate Finance, Islamic financial instruments, mortgages, letters of credit and bank letters of guarantee, consumer lending programs. The banking team regularly represents the largest and most prominent banks and other financial institutions in Turkey. We assist clients from both side debtor and creditor on negotiation with counter party and drafting Loan and Security Agreements as we know needs and wants of each party. Our objective in this agreements that all risks of the client become being covered as much as possible. With regard to Project Finance, we determine all required documents as CP or CS to be obtained by different public authority like building and busines license to close the financing.
As a team of multi-lingual lawyers we provide legal assistance to our international clients on the matters related to European Union, European Court of Human Rights and The United Nations. Moreover we offer representation in legal disputes for the national and international investors.
The Tax department works closely with the firm’s corporate lawyers in structuring complex transactions. The department also focuses on tax planning for business entities, severance payments and employee benefits practice. GAP law firm has been a leading firm in the field of private equity for over 10 years, drafting innovative solutions for some of the largest and the most complex transactions in the industry. The team is also heavily involved in advising the establishment and ongoing operations of foreign subsidiaries and branches in Turkey.
GAP Law Firm provides legal consultancy related to company establishment and matters of commercial law within the scope of the Turkish Commercial Code. Our services include legal assistance in the process of appointment of the manager, board of directors and general assembly meetings, increase and decrease of capital and other legal matters including forming agreements and providing legal documentation, private securities offerings, mergers & acquisitions. We aim to create an appropriate solution by advising for Clients in their everyday relations like objection to invoice, instigate a warning. Our commercial law team provides consultation on national and international commercial agreements including distributorship agreements, agency agreements, exclusive supply agreements, contracts which are under the Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (“CISG”). We represent our clients in every steps of such contracts, negotiation, signature and operation. If any disputes arises from commercial contracts, we have litigation team to settle the problem before the courts. Commercial dispute team provides the Clients with legal assistance for also other commercial issues.

ABOUT US

GAP Law Office has been established by Atty. Cihat Gökdemir and his partners as an international law office in İstanbul.

With its constantly growing staff, GAP Law Firm has been giving consultancy services to both real and legal persons in the areas of Public-Private Partnership, International Arbitration, Litigation, Real Estate, Merger and Acquisition and also performs comprehensive legal solutions in the areas of Commercial Law, Criminal Law, Law of Execution, Energy Law, Administrative and Tax Law, Banking and Finance.

Expert lawyers have been in the level of giving healthy and professional service to their clients about International Law and Consultancy, Institutional Litigation and Criminal Law. Our office, in rendering these services to its clients, utilizes the most advanced infrastructure systems and the latest updated technical equipment which is what a contemporary law office would need.

Our legal experts provides smooth, prompt and professional services to their clients with respect to both local and international law.  Our offices, in rendering these services to its clients, utilizes the most advanced infrastructure systems and the latest updated technical equipment which is what a contemporary law office would need.

PARTNERS

  • Att. Cihat GOKDEMIR

    Founder
    Att. Cihat GOKDEMIR
    Position

    Co-Founder

    Practise Areas

    Privatization,
    Administrarive Law,
    Contracts Law

    Bar Memberships

    Admitted to Istanbul Bar, 1999

    Education

    Istanbul University (LLB, 1998)

    Language

    English

    E-Mail

    cihat@gaphukuk.com

  • Att. Ali Ceylan

    Managing Partner
  • Att. Cemil Aytek Sağnak

    Managing Partner
  • Att. Şiyar Alpaslan

    Managing Partner
  • Att. Arif Erdem Aktaş

    Managing Partner
  • Att. Moustafa CHATIPOGLOU

    Managing Partner
  • Att. Mehmet Doğan

    Managing Partner
  • Att. Çınar Çayırlı

    Managing Partner
  • Av. Mehmet Esad GÖKDEMİR

    Yönetici Avukat
  • Att. Bayram Polat

    Managing Partner
  • Att. Serkan Kartoğlu

    Managing Partner

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