START-UP LAW

We offer services worldwide for entrepreneurs, embarking on their start-up journey in Turkey, encompassing every step from ideation to growth, expansion or exit (or scale-ups). Legal scope of startups covers corporate law, employment law, tax law, and intellectual property law.

The crystallization of an idea into the formation of a business requires a legal process. Protection of intellectual property rights, branding and confidentiality agreements are the core work at the beginning of the process. Our office provides services for designing the whole process.

Intellectual property protection is paramount for startups, and we assist our clients with the registration and protection of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and industrial designs. To secure maximum protection of rights in Turkey, right-holders should register their registrable intellectual property rights. We also assist our clients with their applications at the international level, such as WIPO, IPO, and USPTO. We also provide services for the protection of rights against any infringement issues.

As startups seek fundraising opportunities for the development of their projects, we represent clients during their meetings with angel investors, private equities, venture capital investment companies, and crowdfunding platforms. Our expertise ensures that these funding endeavours are seamlessly aligned with the startup's objectives and legal considerations. 

Maximising investor returns often entails tax optimisation, in other words investors usually prefer to pay fewer taxes and use whole money for funding the startup. Therefore, a legal road map is needed for designing this process as well. For example, share issuance with emission premium is a safe financial resource provision method in joint-stock companies. Adapting to the unique needs of each company, we devise alternative plans serving the best benefit of the parties, and draft and review their share transfer agreements, and share purchase agreements. In these agreements, matters such as earnings per share, privileged rights, and stock-option right etc. are significant to take into consideration.

Tags: intellectual property rights, IP rights, patents, design, trademark, registration, patent application, infringement, brand, protection of patents, start-up law, funding start-ups, angel investors, capital increase, share transfer, share purchase, capital transfer without tax liability, software copyrights, angel investor agreements, crowdfunding.