Areas of Practice
Family Law
Rodoplu Law Firm is dedicated to providing effective, results-driven solutions for Family Law matters. Recognising the lengthy legal processes in Turkey, we particularly focus on divorce cases, addressing both the social and economic needs of our clients to offer immediate and long-term benefits. Our firm offers comprehensive legal consultancy in all areas of Family Law, covering both pre-marital and marital issues.
We provide expert legal advice, draft necessary agreements, and ensure appropriate legal protections to prevent potential disputes. In addition to consultancy, we carefully handle a variety of demands, within the divorce case or in a separate case, including uncontested and contested divorce requests, alimony claims, custody disputes, compensation claims, both pecuniary and non-pecuniary, for both spouses and children, division of matrimonial property, establishment and denial of paternity, correction and registration of property records for family residences, applications for measures to prevent domestic or other forms of violence, recognition and enforcement of Family Law decisions made in foreign countries.
Inheritance Law
Rodoplu Law Firm is dedicated to providing swift and effective solutions for issues arising from Inheritance Law, which holds a significant place in familial relationships. We offer comprehensive legal consultancy to safeguard our clients’ present and future rights during disputes, ensuring economic balance throughout the process. Additionally, we manage all necessary legal applications on their behalf. Our services in this area include, to the extent permitted by mandatory legal rules, drafting agreements related to testamentary dispositions within the boundaries of mandatory legal provisions, ensuring their legal validity, resolving disputes among heirs through amicable negotiations to avoid prolonged litigation, initiating and managing lawsuits to resolve conflicts related to testamentary dispositions, identifying undefined estates and applying for the appointment of estate representatives or administrators when heirs are unable to act together, managing cases related to the distribution of the estate, ensuring all legal requirements are meticulously fulfilled.
Intellectual and Industrial Property Law
Rodoplu Law Firm offers comprehensive legal services in both private and public law for the protection of intellectual and industrial property rights, as well as addressing damages arising from infringements of these rights. In this context, we primarily offer providing legal support for applications related to registration, licensing, and authorisation, which are essential for safeguarding our clients’ rights, drafting and executing necessary agreements to protect intellectual and industrial property, developing short-term solutions to prevent prolonged infringements, initiating and managing mediation processes promptly, based on the extent and duration of the infringement, filing and pursuing both criminal and civil legal actions to address and rectify violations.
Data Protection Law
With the introduction of the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 in 2016, personal data protection has become a significant focus in Turkey. This law mandates various responsibilities for those handling personal data, ensuring robust data security and compliance.
Rodoplu Law Firm has been dedicated to this field since the law’s implementation. We offer legal consultancy to help our corporate clients meet their obligations under the law, including preparing data inventories and defining data processing purposes, ensuring proper consent is obtained for data processing, safeguarding data security and determining whether data is transferred domestically or internationally, complying with high-cost and potentially penal regulatory decisions, registering with the Data Controllers’ Registry. We also assist individuals whose personal data rights have been violated, providing legal support to prevent further breaches and seek compensation for damages. Our goal is to help clients navigate these complex regulations efficiently and effectively.
Corporate & Commercial Law
Rodoplu Law Firm offers comprehensive legal support in Corporate & Commercial Law, catering to the diverse needs of both local and international corporate clients. We provide assistance in various areas, including company formation, liquidation, authority regulations, share transfers, changes in company type, and capital increases. We also represent clients, both legal entities and individuals, in legal disputes, ensuring their rights are protected and secured promptly. Our services include legal support for company formation, liquidation, and authority regulations, assistance with share transfers and changes in company type, guidance on capital increases and related transactions, representation in legal disputes to protect and secure clients’ rights, conducting legal risk analysis and informing clients accordingly.
Real Estate Law
Rodoplu Law Firm provides extensive legal support for real estate transactions, ensuring that all aspects of property law are meticulously handled. Our services encompass a wide range of real estate matters, tailored to meet the needs of our clients, including assisting with title deed transfer processes, handling necessary annotations and restrictions on properties, preparing necessary contracts and documents for transactions at title deed offices, implementing court decisions related to real estate, correcting and registering title deeds for properties improperly transferred or not transferred, taking legal measures to prevent the transfer of properties during long-term litigation, providing legal support for compliance with urban transformation and zoning regulations.
Criminal Law
Criminal Law addresses acts that disrupt social order and the sanctions applied against them, while Criminal Procedure Law outlines the procedural rules for investigating and prosecuting crimes. Rodoplu Law Firm provides comprehensive legal support in these areas, representing clients as complainants, suspects, or defendants throughout the investigation, prosecution, and enforcement processes. Our dedicated team ensures that clients receive thorough legal assistance at every stage, safeguarding their rights and interests.
Press and Media Law
Press and Media Law encompasses the legal rules governing press freedom, freedom of expression, and the activities of media organisations. It aims to balance the protection of journalists’, publishers’, and media organisations’ rights with the public’s access to accurate and impartial information. Press and Media Law is one of the cornerstones of democratic societies and aims to balance the protection of both individual rights and social interests.
Rodoplu Law Firm offers litigation or consultancy assistance in legal oversight of media organisations’ broadcasting services and policies, resolving legal and criminal disputes arising from violations of personal rights, managing application processes for the right to reply and correction, determining the legal responsibilities of access, service, and content providers under relevant laws.
Contract Law
Whether for individuals or legal entities, the contracts they enter into to mitigate future legal risks are of significant long-term importance. Given the extended duration of trials in Turkey, ensuring that rights obtained at the end of these trials effectively remedy any incurred damages is crucial for social justice. Rodoplu Law Firm provides comprehensive services in Contract Law, focusing on both short-term and long-term benefits for clients. We inform and guide our clients through potential future disputes with foresight and legal risk assessment. Our services include drafting and revising contracts to prevent future disputes, providing legal consultancy to establish necessary procedures, conducting legal risk assessments, offering guidance to ensure contracts protect clients’ interests.
Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law
Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law encompasses the legal procedures related to the collection of debts and the regulation of enforcement actions and bankruptcy processes that debtors may face. Rodoplu Law Firm provides necessary consultancy, enforcement, and litigation follow-up services aimed at effectively collecting creditors’ claims, protecting the rights of debtors, and supporting them throughout the legal process. Our comprehensive services in this scope include initiating and following up on enforcement proceedings, applying for precautionary measures and attachment decisions, monitoring sales conducted through auctions, facilitating settlements between debtors and creditors, preparing and following up on debt payment plans, filing for bankruptcy postponement and concordat applications, initiating bankruptcy and conducting bankruptcy procedures, developing debt restructuring strategies and preparing restructuring plans.