The best case is the one that is never filed. Bilkay Legal's legal-consultancy service aims to secure clients' business and life decisions in law, to anticipate possible risks before they arise, and to build a long-term relationship as a strategic legal partner.
Scope of Our Service
Our office provides ongoing legal counsel (on a retainer basis) to companies and need-based consultancy to individual clients. We act as a mentor across a broad field, from contract reviews to personal-data-protection compliance and the legal dimensions of commercial decision-making processes.
Our Principal Practice Areas
- Ongoing legal counsel for companies
- Contract review and negotiation support
- Personal-data-protection compliance and registry filings
- Preparation of internal regulations and procedures
- Establishment of compliance programmes
- Legal risk identification and assessment
- Pre-dispute strategy and negotiation support
- Preparation of formal notices and official correspondence
- Support in board-of-directors meetings and resolutions
- Due-diligence (legal review) reports
- Training and awareness seminars
- Life-event consultancy for individual clients
Ongoing Legal Counsel for Companies
The legal questions companies face in their day-to-day operations span a wide range of subjects — drawing up an employment contract, the legal review of correspondence with customers and suppliers, obtaining swift legal advice when a problem arises. Our retainer model provides uninterrupted, priority legal support for a fixed monthly fee; by eliminating the need to issue a fresh power of attorney and negotiate a fee each time, it enables company managers to operate within legal security.
Contract Review and Risk Management
Every contract sent to you by a business partner should be examined carefully before it is accepted. Provisions such as limitations of liability, penalty clauses, confidentiality obligations, non-compete, dispute-resolution clauses and the choice of governing law directly determine the risks the contract will create in the future. Our office provides a quick turnaround in preparing your standard contracts, reviewing negotiated contracts and mapping the risks.
Why ongoing legal consultancy? A lawyer engaged at the moment of crisis aims only to limit the damage. In ongoing consultancy, by contrast, the goal is to prevent crises from arising in the first place. A legal partner who knows the business model, commercial relationships and human-resources policy of the enterprise accompanies decision-making processes in a way that produces the most accurate results.
Personal-Data-Protection Compliance and Data-Protection Consultancy
The Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 today contains obligations covering almost every company. The registry-filing requirement, explicit consent and information notices, the data inventory, the retention-and-destruction policy, data-security measures and data-breach notifications are the fundamental headings of this field. Compliance shortcomings may lead to high administrative fines imposed by the Authority. Beginning with the domestic data-protection law, our office establishes the whole of GDPR and sector-specific compliance as an integrated programme.
Legal Consultancy for Individuals
We provide legal mentoring to our individual clients in life events such as buying a home or vehicle, signing a lease, protecting one's rights during the process of leaving a job, a prenuptial matrimonial property agreement, a will and inheritance planning. A small legal review at the outset can prevent far larger legal problems from arising later.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between ongoing consultancy and case-based service?
In case-based service, a power of attorney is granted for a particular dispute and service is provided for the duration of that case. In ongoing consultancy, by contrast, unlimited legal advice, contract review, formal-notice and meeting support are provided for a fixed monthly fee. Ongoing consultancy is particularly advantageous for companies in a growth phase and for enterprises where regular legal questions arise.
My company is small — do I need ongoing consultancy?
Small-scale companies, too, face legal risks at every stage of commercial life: drawing up an employment contract, dismissing a disputed employee, problems with a supplier, data-protection obligations, and so on. Ongoing consultancy packages can be scaled to the size and needs of the company. For a small enterprise, a modest monthly fee provides a guarantee of protection from major legal problems.
Do I need to come to your office to obtain legal advice?
No. For ongoing-consultancy clients we offer communication by telephone, e-mail, WhatsApp and video call. Where a visit to the office is required, detailed meetings are conducted at our office in Kadikoy by prior appointment. The option of working online greatly facilitates the process, particularly for our clients outside Istanbul and abroad.