Günes Law Firm, located in Antalya - Turkey was established by Mr. Umut Günes and Mrs. Ebru Günes, in Kemer, Antalya, in 1999.
Günes Law Firm started as a local law office in 1999, and has seen a rapid expansion. This early success came with its approach to provide the best legal services from its three offices (Ankara, Kemer, Antalya) simultaneously.
Günes Law Firm gained its reputation by focusing on the clients' need and appointing its qualified lawyers according to their area of expertise and ability. Günes legal team is monitoring all the recent legal developments in order to adapt them promptly to its clients' cases.
Günes Law Firm expanded its reputation rapidly overseas and is cooperating with international legal firms. Günes is the local arm of Multinational Companies willing to operate or already operating in Turkey. Nevertheless, Günes Law Firm believes and remains as a law firm that serves each individual application with a corporate approach.
Günes Law Firm is located in Antalya, heart of the tourism sector in Turkey. This represents a major advantage for solving promptly our clients' dispute in tourism related cases. In that context we are providing counseling services to local and international establishments of the tourism industry within the scope of public and private law rules and tourism law, representation of travel agencies at establishment stage and following the legal procedure, settlement of problems encountered at the Ministry of Tourism.
Günes Law Firm is active in the area of the legal aspects of real estate that includes the purchasing, selling, leasing of real estate as well as the private sector development of treasury land allocated by the state. It also provides legal advice on the construction sector and represents parties in disputes arising in this area. Günes Law Firm is also engaged in providing legal counsel in the preparation of all kinds of contracts regarding real estate and construction law.
Regarding the boom in tourism in recent years, Antalya has become an attractive hub for international investors. Within the scope of current developments, Günes Law Firm consults its clients in business and commercial fields. In this context Günes Law Firm provides legal counselling to foreign enterprises and companies or real persons willing to invest in Turkey. It also obtains operating licences for foreign investors and sets up companies, preparing the necessary administrative applications for obtaining residence and work permits for foreigners, submitting and following up these applications. We also have a counseling service regarding establishing and opening corporate, branch or liaison office in the same way as in corporate merges and takeovers, expert project management, determining legal and financial situation, arranging legal papers and participating in professional negotiations with counterparts, providing counseling service to international banks, finance institutions, investment funds, capital investors and medium-sized enterprises and representing while procuring permits and incentives before official bodies.
Günes Legal Consultants provide counselling services to Turkish and foreign clients on legal issues concerning companies and commercial enterprises, to investors with capital on setting up companies, organisation, restructuring of commercial activities, liquidations and mergers. In that sense the company's priority objective is to protect its clients on a legal basis and to contribute to their organisation and development. Counseling services for national and international corporates, national and international commercial contracts, commercial negotiations and conciliation, establishing companies native and foreign capital, franchising contracts, investment incentives, transfer of foreign capital, increasing or decreasing capital, restructuring companies, preparing articles of association and shareholder contracts of companies, carrying out proceedings of general boards and administrative boards, liquidation, making necessary applications before public authorities, fulfilling proceedings and settling legal conflicts that may arise in all these matters, company establishments and activities in free zones, E-commerce.
Günes Law Firm provides the following services: Reserved sales, strategic partnerships between national and international firms, preparing and negotiating share purchase and shareholder contracts, making necessary applications to the related authorities and boards, providing legal and strategic advice at all levels of mergers and acquisitions, executing official applications, credit agreements and preparing and negotiating agreements made with financial institutions and independent auditor firms, counselling services for international clients' buying block share at common and private Turkish companies.
Considering the importance of insurance law we also provide legal assistance for disputes arising in this area. Within this scope, establishing insurance companies and eyeing their activities, legal support in all matters regarding activities of insurance companies, settlement of legal matters regarding retirement, health insurance, comprehensive insurance, traffic insurance, private insurance, individual insurance, original value insurance, life insurance, fire insurance, theft insurance and other insurances, settlement of legal problems regarding retirement, health insurance and other insurances, representation of native and foreign clients at possible conflicts that may arise with the insurance companies.
The company's lawyers provide the necessary assistance to real persons and commercial enterprises that cannot collect their debts within the framework of the Bankruptcy Law and helps them collect their debts and protect their assets and provides the legal assistance that will help them recover their investments. Günes Legal Consultants enable their clients to be aware of the legal and commercial risks they face, protect their rights and enable them to take the necessary precautions before the risks occur. The company also provides legal assistance to enable clients who have undertaken a heavy debt burden due to the economic crises that were experienced in Turkey to reschedule their debts.
Moreover, our office provides legal assistance on regulations, treaties and contracts of Energy Law, dispute resolutions involving the electric, nuclear, oil and natural gas and water industries.
Günes Law Firm provides Customs and Tax Law counselling. We provide our customers assistance for international delivery and forms of payment, international transportation, cost foreign exchange movements, purchases and sells with export registration, national operation and investment incentive regime, not wrongly declaring the number of Customs Tariff and Statistics Position, quantity, value and country of origin of goods entering and leaving the country and preventing heavy customs tax and penalties that may arise due to this, exemptions, settlement of conflicts arising in customs taxes, every kind of counseling service within the scope of Customs Law and representation before customs administrations; Settlement of legal problems regarding tax imposition, tax accrual and tax collection, objections to be made against tax penalties and representation during suits, tax suits, settlement of matters encountered at Finance Ministry and tax offices by means of peace or lawsuits, objections to be made against decisions of correction and evaluation commissions of tax offices and following necessary legal procedure.
We also provide counseling services regarding competition law and anti-dumping law, providing counseling services regarding preliminary research and investigation activities and decisions and practices of the Competition Board, ensuring corporate merges and takeovers to be completed in a way that they will not cause results contrary to competition.
Günes Law Firm's IT support consists of the following programs: Icrapro, Avukatpro, YTS, Corpus Mevzuat ve Içtihat, Kazanci Bilgi Bankasi, Dinamik Içtihat, E-Içtihat, Mevdata Içtihat ve Mevzuat, Yargi Dünyasi software, Hukuk Turk software.
Günes Law Firm is also in cooperation with offices (academicians) providing services in tax consultancy, Certified Public Accounting and Accounting and provides all services in German, English, Russian, French, Italian and Turkish.