Türkiye Legal Update - February 2019

Privacy issues in M&A transactions used to be overlooked. However, conducting adequate due diligence on privacy issues and mitigating risks associated with privacy-related liabilities, are nowadays common in M&A transactions.

As the increase in the number of the applicants for the composition procedure pushed the government to take new steps to regulate this procedure, this article provides an insight regarding the merits of the application process to be followed.

By January 01, 2019, IP related disputes covering requests of compensation or payment of a certain amount became affected from the new provision bringing mandatory mediation as a condition of action for commercial receivables.

IP Court accepted ex-parte injunction demand considering the urgent nature of the Precautionary Injunction as well as the principle balance of convenience, which is an important step in the protection of IP rights.