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Entity & structure
Do you need a Türkiye company, branch, distributor, employer-of-record arrangement, or acquisition vehicle?
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Outbound from ChinaEurope and Western Asia corridor
Türkiye legal counsel for Chinese businesses.
Route a China-connected Türkiye matter by workstream, local legal market and appropriately qualified counsel. This page provides general orientation, not destination-law advice.
Legal orientation, not legal advice
01Project screening
Early screening
Before you commit, clear the legal gates.
Start with the decisions most expensive to unwind after signing, funding, or hiring.
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Investment screening
Could the proposed investment or acquisition require national-security screening or other sector approvals in Türkiye?
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People & immigration
Will the operation hire locally, transfer staff, sponsor workers, or create payroll and employment obligations?
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Tax & establishment
Where will management, people, contracting, and revenue-generating activity actually occur?
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Data, technology & IP
Will personal data, confidential information, software, brands, or technology move between China and Türkiye?
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Contracts & disputes
Which governing law, forum, arbitration route, urgent-relief mechanism, and enforcement strategy fit the deal?
Find counselFlagship orientation
A legal corridor is not a checklist. It is a sequence of connected decisions.
Get the facts into view early, identify where China-side and Türkiye advice intersect, then take the route that matches the commercial move—not a generic practice-area label.
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02Business routes
Action-led routes
What are you doing in Türkiye?
Choose a business action first. We will take you to the legal questions and counsel path it creates.
Structure
Establish an operation in Türkiye
Subsidiary, branch, governance, shareholder arrangements, and first registrations.
People
Hire & relocate people in Türkiye
Employment structures, immigration, secondments, payroll, and workforce compliance.
Transaction
Invest / acquire a business in Türkiye
Share or asset deals, due diligence, funding, investment screening, and completion.
Commercial
Trade & contract with counterparties in Türkiye
Commercial agreements, supply, distribution, governing law, and payment risk.
Protection
Protect data, IP & compliance in Türkiye
Trade marks, confidential information, technology, data, and regulatory-facing issues.
Contentious
Resolve a dispute in Türkiye
Courts, arbitration, urgent relief, enforcement, and commercial exits.
03Coordination
ChinaOrigin-side
Coordinated mandate
TürkiyeDestination-side
Cross-border coordination
Make the handoff visible.
Host-country counsel does not replace China-side advice. The most consequential questions often sit where approvals, capital, governance, and enforcement cross jurisdictions.
China-side counsel
- ODI, SAFE, and relevant China-side approvals
- China-parent governance and authority
- Mainland contracts and onshore implications
- PRC enforcement or asset questions
Türkiye counsel
- Türkiye entity, governance, and transaction documents
- Employment, immigration, and local contracts
- Türkiye regulation and investment screening
- Courts, arbitration, and host-country enforcement
04Counsel directory
Counsel route
Browse Türkiye counsel.
Search listed profiles by name, city, firm, or legal focus.
Ali Yılmaz
Istanbul, Turkey
Export Control and Sanctions
Mehmet Demir
Istanbul, Turkey
Mergers and AcquisitionsNo matching counsel profiles.
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05Review & sources
Review protocol · Türkiye corridor
05 / Evidence file
Know the scope, sources and review boundary.
This page is maintained as editorial legal orientation. It does not claim review by a named Türkiye lawyer unless that reviewer and qualification have been independently verified.
Current editorial review
Legal scope
Turkish law and Istanbul-based M&A and export-control inventory; confirm sector and geographic scope
Source basis
Türkiye’s Investment and Finance Office, Ministry of Trade, trade registries and MERSIS, Competition Authority, customs, tax, labour and immigration authorities, sector regulators, legislation, and courts.
Editorial owner
China Legal Portal outbound desk
Re-review trigger
Changes to Turkish company registration, merger control, investment incentives, customs and trade controls, sanctions, employment and immigration, tax, data, sector licensing, or dispute procedure.
Questions at the first call
Practical starting points.
Can a Chinese investor establish a Turkish company?
Generally yes. The suitable form and process depend on activity, capital, governance, representatives, corporate documents, tax, employment, sector licences, incentives, and other operating requirements.
Does every acquisition require Turkish competition approval?
No. Notification depends on the transaction, control, parties, turnover thresholds, affected markets, sector rules, and current merger-control regime. Assess filing and standstill requirements before closing.
What should an exporter screen before a Türkiye transaction?
Check goods and technology classification, parties and ownership, end user and end use, route, destination, licences, customs, sanctions, banking, contractual controls, and recordkeeping across every applicable jurisdiction.
Can one Istanbul lawyer handle both M&A and export controls?
Do not assume so. Corporate, competition, customs, sanctions, sector-regulatory, tax, employment, and disputes may require different specialists and engagement scopes.