Sezekkaplan Lawyers

Sezekkaplan Lawyers is a specialized Law Office in Turkey in the field of Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition, representing the world’s giants on a global scale.
Since 2001, Sezekkaplan Lawyers has been the juridical defender of the IP rights of the global Corporate Companies in Turkey and maintains the protection of the rights and investments of clients via preventive practices.
Within this frame, we represent the corporations of industrialized countries like USA, Canada, Japan, Korea, China and EU countries. Moreover, we cooperate with the worldwide recognized artists to preserve their intellectual rights.
Areas of practice: Intellectual property: Sezekkaplan Lawyers offers consultancy services to ensure that the investments/values of its clients are secured for the protection and enforcement of all the intellectual property rights, including marks, designs, patents, and copyrights. We have specialty in unfair competition, counterfeit and derivative legal disputes occurring in the infringement of intellectual rights.
Dispute Resolution & Litigation: In addition to preventive protection, Sezekkaplan Lawyers ensures protection also in the legal monitoring processes. The firm has a serious and well-established business practice in trademark, copyright, design and patent disputes. The firm represents its clients in a solution-oriented way in mediation and negotiations, meetings and relevant processes by preserving the interests of its clients which are recognized on a global scale. Another broad area of expertise is litigation, the firm represents its clients competently in complex lawsuits.
Competition & Regulations: Sezekkaplan Lawyers represent clients in all processes in relation to the Turkish Competition Authority and provides all-round legal consultancy and litigation services within Turkish Competition Law, especially on competition-restricting agreements, claims and defenses on the abuse of dominant position, notifications of mergers and acquisitions. We provide our clients with consultancy on the legal restrictions to secure their activities in Turkey and avoid and overcome any possible obstacles and advise companies to generate business strategies.
Corporate and M&A: The corporate practice of Sezekkaplan Lawyers ensures and covers high quality consultancy services to the global companies in various sectors. The firm has offered service to the remarkable and significant M&A projects in recent years thanks to the efficiency of the digital world and rapid dynamics of the sector, and this successfully performed acquisitions have made a name for themselves both n Turkish and worldwide agenda.

KEY CLIENTS

• Facebook Inc
• Instagram LLC
• Monster Energy Company
• Energy Beverages
• DTTM
• Swatch Group
• H&M
• Oracle
• Believe SAS
• Mitsubishi Electric
• Getty Images
• Energizer
• Sir Cameron Mackintosh
• Istock
• Cloudera
• Uster AG
• TE Connectivity
• Coopervision

Key IP Areas
Copyright & related rights, Designs, Intellectual property (contentious), Intellectual property (prosecution), IP transactions, Patent, Patent contentious, Patent prosecution, Trade mark, Trade mark contentious, Trade mark prosecution

Key Sector Expertise
Arts, Computer technology & services, Fashion & luxury goods, Film, Food & beverage, Gaming, Media, Music, Pharmaceutical, Optics & photonics, Telecommunication, Technology hardware, ICT & software, Life sciences, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Medical device, Retail, Chemical, Construction & materials, Financial services