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Koc Attorneys at Law
Esentepe Mahallesi, Büyükdere Caddesi, 100-102 Maya Akar Center, Kat:19, Daire:72 PK 34394
Turkey

Turkey > Media and entertainment Tier 2

Alper Koç leads Koc Attorneys at Law's team, which is often instructed in licensing, broadcasting, distribution, production and copyright law-related matters in the media and entertainment sector. Öykü Besen brings experience in handling television and streaming issues.

Practice head(s):

Alper Koç

Other key lawyers:

Key clients

HBO Max (HBO Nordic, HBO Turkey), Warner Media Europe, Warner Media Turkey

MBC Group – Middle East Broadcasting Center

O3 Medya (KSA)

Al Arabiya News Network

MBC Studios

Shadid

O3 Medya

Lanistar Medya

NO 4 Film

CB Film

CB Medya

Turkey > Intellectual property

Pelin Ersoy, who is also qualified as a trade mark attorney, joined Koc Attorneys at Law in September 2023 from her own practice, bolstering the firm's IP expertise.

Koç Attorneys at Law is an Istanbul based corporate law firm, founded in June 2021 by legal professionals with a combined 60 years of experience under their belt.

As Koç Attorneys at Law, we are acutely aware how central a question it is for our clients to be able to verify the depth of experience and resourcefulness of their legal advisors. To that end, our legal team is composed of seasoned professionals with international corporate law backgrounds. Our lawyers are passionately dedicated in what they do. Each member of our team is set to bring value to your business and attend your legal needs with the professionalism you deserve.

We assist our clients in a wide range of business and civil law issues by providing smart solutions and neat work products. We take pride in the strength of our legal advice as well as our ability to read the business and individual needs of our clients.

Our experienced team have the extensive knowledge and tools they culminated through having worked on many numbers of local and foreign-based clients in the following practices:

Mergers and Acquisitions:

We assist our clients in all forms of M&A deal types, i.e., asset-based, rights-based, equity-based, private sale, public offerings, optioned sales, total buy-outs and JV sales, control share agreements, minority rights management schemes, liability sharing deals, and others.

Corporate and Commercial Law:

We undertake the role of the legal adviser for our clients’ all kind of commercial law-based questions and provide close contact support in legal follow-up of their operational and managerial processes. Our client profile varies from start-ups to Fortune 500 multinationals.

Our corporate and commercial services include:

  • Assisting compliance teams in their sector-specific and TCC-corporate compliance questions
  • Contract support and contract management services
  • Helping clients build and operate effective corporate governance and corporate secretarial
  • functions
  • Board-level assistance, board and general assembly procedures
  • Customer, vendor, supplier, distributor and service contracts
  • Employment contracts, HR assistance, dispute management
  • Cross-border sale of goods and services
  • Liability structuring and back-to-back deals
  • Capital Markets and Financial Regulatio

Media and Entertainment Law:

We provide legal services across all media and entertainment mediums. Our clients include production companies, casting agencies, media investors & financiers, broadcasters, distributors, rights management companies, theater operators, internet service providers, OTTs, pay-TV, IP-TV operators, cable television networks, in terms of pre-production and postproduction processes. Services we provide range from managing contractual processes and providing documentational support across all types of entertainment law transactions.

Intellectual Property Law:

We provide legal services to our clients in every stage of their trademarks, patents, designs, and utility models. Our work includes a wide range of services from registration and cancellation processes before the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office to representing our clients in IP-based legal disputes. We help them develop the legal aspects of their brand-building and recognition strategies that are the best fit for the business. We work with the legal and marketing departments of our clients. We help them carefully pick their legal battles over their ever-fluid marketing strategies.

We represent production companies, media corporations and all other sorts of corporate right holders in the protection of their license-protected copyrights in the framework of Turkish Law on Intellectual and Artistic Works, license agreements and other private law contracts. We represent our clients in litigation procedures – particularly in plagiarism cases, indemnification, and royalty fee claims, cease and desist action and similar court injunctions.

 

Department Name Email Telephone
Alper Koç alper.koc@kocattorneys.com
Aşkın Karaduman askin.karaduman@kocattorneys.com
Onur Ocaklı onur.ocakli@kocattorneys.com
Kaya Gönençer kaya.gonencer@kocattorneys.com
Pelin Ersoy pelin.ersoy@kocattorneys.com
Enis Sinan Reyhan sinan.reyhan@kocattorneys.com