Moroglu Arseven

Turkey

Moroğlu Arseven is an independent, full service law firm with broad expertise and experience in business law, including complex business transactions and white collar matters. Based in Istanbul, the firm’s reputation as a hands-on and trusted advisor has allowed Moroğlu Arseven to establish long-term and strong relationship with clients from around the world, representing a wide range of sizes and industries.

The firm delivers clear and understandable advice, taking into account business and commercial considerations, in addition to all legal aspects involved. It supports the Turkish operations of multinational companies and local companies alike. Clients benefit from a proactive and reality-based approach to fraud and white-collar crime advice during daily corporate counselling as well as representation in criminal and civil cases with complex issues or heavy liabilities.

Turkey is following in the footsteps of international counterparts in preventing and fighting fraud at a legislative level, as well as within the business community. Companies operating in Turkey face unique challenges in this respect, within a developing legal and business environment.

Against this background, Moroğlu Arseven provides clients with practical and pragmatic solutions, as well as supports assessment and execution of strategically important decisions, often in cross-border contexts. The firm’s lawyers are experienced in interpreting and applying FCPA, UKBA and other local or international fraud-related legislation, as these apply to clients. Particular attention is paid to ensuring clients’ strategies and policies are compliant and cost-efficient, while also meet legal frameworks and good practices at a local and international level.

The firm supports clients with a wide range of services, including policy making, drafting, developing and tailoring compliance programs, as well as providing legal support in a coordinated manner (with in-house teams, external counsels, or consultants in different jurisdictions) during investigations and employee interrogations. Other services include establishing training programs, as well as conducting due diligence and dawn raid style activities to identify risks related to bribery, fraud and corruption. An experienced team of lawyers conducts compliance due diligence reviews during M&A transactions. Risk assessments and compliance reviews consider clients’ wider industry context and legal obligations, both within and beyond Turkey’s borders. The firm regularly supports large multinational clients with localizing their policies, operational processes and structures to meet Turkish regulatory requirements.

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Burcu assists foreign and domestic companies with a full spectrum of corporate and commercial issues. She has particular experience helping clients to deal with circumstances where commercial issues intersect with regulatory considerations. Burcu supports clients with complicated regulatory compliance questions and programs, covering topics such as data protection, corporate governance, anti-corruption, business crimes, employment, and competition law.

Burcu supports high-profile clients with a full spectrum of corporate and commercial matters, helping them to negotiate and restructure various contracts to ensure their Turkish operations run smoothly, as well as understand and address regulatory risk exposures.

She has significant experience assisting clients to deal with complicated compliance issues in Turkey. For instance, helping clients to understand and navigate a range of data protection or privacy compliance questions. These issues include questions about monitoring employees and making international data transfers, along with compiling data inventories, developing data security and audit mechanisms, as well as helping clients develop data storage, retention, amendment and destruction mechanisms.