Erciyas Law Office

Erciyas Law Office is an Ankara-based full-service law firm, founded by Ertuğrul Erciyas in 1980. With ethical, disciplined and particularly family-based working, the firm has grown to its current size combining experience, and new generation dynamic lawyers. The firm offers its local and international clients high-quality legal services in a wide range of practising areas of Private Law with its experienced lawyers. The Firm provides tailor-made legal solutions to individual clients in line with their personal legal needs as well as institutional and corporate clients matching their structural legal requirements. Meanwhile, the firm especially considers legal advice and services being functional, practical and effective. The firm also provides legal services and solutions not only derivated legal regulations but also in line with a sector based practice which allows finding answers to the most difficult legal problems in the sectors themselves. AREAS OF PRACTICE Information Technology Law: The firm has extensive knowledge and expertise in technology and data protection law. Erciyas mainly advises on IT related procurement, sales, pre and after sales, service level agreements as well as regulation. In recent cases, Erciyas offered top to toe solutions for setting up IT related business or infrastructure such as data centre complexes. Real Estate and Construction Law: Real Estate and Construction contracts are widely implemented in Turkey. With its experience and expertise, Erciyas offers its clients legal solutions by rendering procurement documents, preparing requests for proposals and project based contract drafting. The Firm also specialised on Title Deed Transactions and hypothec Regulations applying on Foreigners and foreign transfers. Furthermore, the Firm provides legal assistance on obtaining necessary permissions for foreign real estate investment. Enforcement/Debt Collection Law: For more than 20 years, with its experienced team, the firm has a regular practice and result-based expertise in debt collection and enforcement. In this field, Erciyas closely collaborates and operates with a big part of nation-wide operating national and international banks, telecom operators and asset management companies. Erciyas provides legal aid on collection of commercial and consumer credits. With its motivated team, Erciyas touches more than 30,000 customers and manages more than 40,000,000 TRY bad debt for a year. Consumer Law: Erciyas litigates and co-operates mostly on the specially codified consumer law area with its nation-wide operating B2C clients. Through online litigation models and experienced people, Erciyas could manage yearly more than 5,000 consumer litigation cases in all 81 cities of Turkey at the same time. E-money, Electronic Payment Systems, E-Commerce Law: The firm advises and works with E-money and Payment System Companies on a new regulated area of financial technologies. Recently Erciyas provided consultancy on official licencing of an E-money company through Turkish Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency. Commercial, Corporate, and M&A: As one of the specialised area, the firm provides legal services and consultancy particularly consumer, contract, employment and corporate law to its international and national technology companies. Moreover, the firm offers consulting services to its German clients doing business in Turkey, whereas Erciyas takes part on reliable law firms list of German-Turkish Chamber of Commerce and Industry and German Embassy.