With a team of approximately 80 lawyers, Kolcuoğlu Demirkan Koçaklı advises domestic and international companies in connection with all Turkish-law matters and represents them before the courts and administrative bodies. In order to ensure optimal client services, Kolcuoğlu Demirkan Koçaklı has established a central French Desk with more than 10 lawyers that have graduated from French high schools and universities.

The French Desk provides our Firm’s clients with legal support in all kinds of cross-border legal transactions between Turkey and French-speaking countries. It represents the clients in international disputes and also provides legal advice in connection with investments from French-speaking countries to Turkey and vice versa.

The French Desk brings together our Firm’s experience in advising individuals and international companies that are active in French-speaking countries and offers a place where clients can obtain legal advice and legal representation on a wide range of activities in Turkey, all under one roof. Through the French Desk, Turkish investors will find a competent partner in Turkey and will be backed by trusted law firms located in France and other French-speaking countries.

The members of our French Desk have significant foreign experience, acquired through both academic and professional activities undertaken in France and other French-speaking countries. They have years of professional experience in advising international companies, particularly French companies, on a wide range of practice areas including but not limited to dispute resolution, mergers and acquisitions, corporate and commercial law and competition law. The French Desk members have superior French and English language skills as well as vast knowledge of French-speaking countries’ business culture and market dynamics.