International Trade Law

Our services

• Distribution and sales networks. Drafting and negotiating distributorship, agency, dealership and franchise agreements; regulating exclusivity, territory, minimum-purchase and performance conditions; and managing claims arising on termination, above all termination of the relationship and goodwill indemnity.
• Supply relationships. Long-term supply and manufacturing agreements, contract-manufacturing and confidentiality arrangements, the legal position of tooling and special investments, price-adjustment and revision mechanisms linked to raw-material costs, and supply interruption and force majeure.
• International sale of goods. Application of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and its exclusion by contract, regulating delivery terms and the passing of risk, securing payment structures, and designing the governing-law and jurisdiction clauses.
• Customs and the foreign-trade regime. Assessments of customs value, tariff classification and rules of origin, application of preferential-trade and free-trade agreements, inward- and outward-processing regimes, and objection processes before the customs administration and pursuit in the administrative courts.
• Trade-policy measures. Representation in anti-dumping and safeguard investigations, surveillance measures, import restrictions, and the remedies against them.
• Sanctions and export controls. Assessing the effect of international sanctions regimes on the transaction and the supply chain, counterparty screening, controls on dual-use goods and technology, and resolving obstacles that arise in banking and logistics processes.
• Product compliance and placing on the market. Conformity with technical regulations, conformity-assessment and marking obligations, labelling and presentation rules, warranty certificates and after-sales service rules, and the obligations arising from the status of importer and distributor.
• Product liability and recall. The allocation along the supply chain of liability for defective and unsafe products, planning and conducting recall processes, notifications to the competent authorities, and regulating recourse relationships in the contract in advance.
• Consumer law. Distance contracts and contracts concluded away from business premises, the legislation on commercial advertising and unfair commercial practices, Advertising Board proceedings, disputes before consumer arbitration committees and consumer courts, and the legal framework of sales campaigns.
• Supply-chain compliance. Passing anti-corruption, sanctions and sustainability obligations into supplier contracts, supplier codes of conduct, regulating audit rights, and determining the path to be followed in the event of a breach.
• The competition-law dimension. Assessing vertical agreements under competition law, the limits of territory and customer restrictions, the risks of fixing resale prices, parallel trade, the use of market power in supply relationships, and the design of selective-distribution systems.
• Investment and structuring. Structuring the commercial presence in Türkiye of foreign companies, establishment of a liaison office or a branch, and structural choices for Turkish companies entering markets abroad.
• Dispute resolution. Litigation and arbitration in cross-border commercial disputes, recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards, letter-of-guarantee and letter-of-credit disputes, and international carriage and insurance disputes.

How we work

More than ten years of work in the automotive sector has given us a direct command of the practice of international supply relationships. We know from inside the practice how long-term contracts between original-equipment manufacturers and the supply industry operate, at which points tooling investments and long supply commitments turn into disputes, and how recall processes are managed along the chain.

Our own lawyers working in our offices in London, Germany and Canada allow us to assess the legal framework in the counterparty’s country directly on cross-border transactions. On administrative problems that arise in export and import processes, we have experience of proceedings conducted before the Ministry of Trade and the Ministry of Industry and Technology.