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Tuna Çolgar is a Partner in Corporate Affairs Department of Erdem & Erdem. He is highly specialized on a wide range of corporate matters including national and multijurisdictional complex merger and acquisitions, investments, joint ventures and share transfer transactions. Furthermore Mr. Çolgar focuses on corporate structuring including the spin offs, option rights and group company managements and additionally he is experienced in cross-border strategic business transactions project finance, structured finance, acquisition finance, privatizations and private equity investments.

Defects in Sales Contracts Newsletter Articles
Defects in Sales Contracts

Sales contracts are the most common and most important contracts of commercial life . Determining the rights and obligations of the parties as a result of the defects encountered in the goods subject to the sale is one of the most common legal problems in commercial sales...

Commercial Law 31.07.2024
Compensation Rights Arising from the Termination of Agency and Sole Distributor Agreements Newsletter Articles
Compensation Rights Arising from the Termination of Agency and Sole Distributor Agreements

The most common forms of agency agreements can be categorized under three main headings. These can be listed as an Agency Agreement, Distributorship Agreement, and Franchise Agreement...

Commercial Law 29.02.2024
Exit and Squeeze Out from Limited Liability Companies Newsletter Articles
Exit and Squeeze Out from Limited Liability Companies

Turkish Commercial Code No. 6102 ("TCC") provides the right to exit from the company to the shareholders of limited liability companies and the right to squeeze out the shareholder from the company, unlike the structure of joint stock companies, with the exit and squeeze out institutions specially regulated for...


Commercial Law 30.09.2023
The Concept of Ordinary Partnership and Its Common Types Newsletter Articles
The Concept of Ordinary Partnership and Its Common Types

Ordinary partnerships are regulated under Turkish Law between Articles 620 and 645 of the Turkish Code of Obligations No. 6098 (“TCO” or the “Code”). The Law defines an ordinary partnership contract as a contract where two or more persons undertake to combine their labour or property to achieve a common...

Commercial Law 30.04.2023
Recent Developments in Electricity Storage Activities Newsletter Articles
Recent Developments in Electricity Storage Activities

The first regulations on electricity storage activities were included in Electricity Market Law No. 6446 dated 14/3/2013 ("EML" or "Law"). Subsequently, the Regulation on Storage Activities in the Electricity Market ("Storage Activities Regulation"), which implements the law, entered into force through its publication...

Energy Law 31.12.2022
Prohibition On Hidden Income Shifting Newsletter Articles
Prohibition On Hidden Income Shifting

Prohibition on hidden income shifting is one of the most important issues that is broadly regulated under Capital Markets Law No. 6362 (“CML”). In conjunction with CML Article 21, which has a broader context than Article 15 of the abrogated Capital Markets Law No. 2499, another significant step has been taken...

Commercial Law January 2015
Share Transfers Under Electricity Market Legislation Newsletter Articles
Share Transfers Under Electricity Market Legislation

Electricity Market Law numbered 6446 (“EML” or “Law”) entered into force through publication in the Official Gazette dated March 30, 2013 and numbered 28603. Share transfers of companies that operate in the energy market became one of the newly regulated issues with the publication of the Electricity...

Energy Law May 2015
The Term Business Partnership And The Legal Status Of Business Partnerships Newsletter Articles
The Term Business Partnership And The Legal Status Of Business Partnerships

As a result of developing commercial activities and large-scale investments, especially concluded in the fields of construction, energy and mining, companies are seeking to participate in these investments by uniting their powers and expertise to take advantage of financial opportunities together. This tendency...

Commercial Law June 2013
Transfer Of Assets In Company Spin-Offs Newsletter Articles
Transfer Of Assets In Company Spin-Offs

The Turkish Commercial Code (“TCC” or “Law”) has enabled companies to apply different structural models and to implement new legal formations by including spin-off provisions to its Article 159 et seq. In accordance with the provisions of the law, companies may transfer a certain element, or elements, of their...

Commercial Law January 2016
Significant Amendments To The Unlicensed Electricity Generation Regulation Newsletter Articles
Significant Amendments To The Unlicensed Electricity Generation Regulation

The Electricity Market Regulatory Authority (“EMRA”) amended the Regulation on the Unlicensed Electricity Generation in the Electricity Market. Within this context, EMRA prepared three different exposure drafts amending such Regulation on 15.05.2015, 26.10.2015 and 26.11.2015. Finally, EMRA has finalized...

Energy Law March 2016
Model Contract Used in The Construction Sector Series Newsletter Articles
Model Contract Used in The Construction Sector Series

The International Federation of Consulting Engineers is a professional association established in 1913, known as the FIDIC (Fédération Internationale Des Ingénieurs-Counseils). Its members are duly elected from consultant-engineer associations of various countries, and membership to the association is...

Commercial Law November 2014
Invalidity of Exemption Agreements Newsletter Articles
Invalidity of Exemption Agreements

Although the general principle in the law of contracts is freedom of contract or, in other words, freedom of will, the parties’ wills are not completely free in the case of exemption agreements. The validity of these agreements is limited by the mandatory provisions of the Turkish Code of Obligations...

Law of Obligations 30.09.2022
Prohibition On Hidden Income Shifting Newsletter Articles
Prohibition On Hidden Income Shifting
Capital Markets Law January 2015
Veto Rights in Joint Stock Companies Newsletter Articles
Veto Rights in Joint Stock Companies
Commercial Law August 2020
Legal Liability of Limited Company Managers Newsletter Articles
Legal Liability of Limited Company Managers
Commercial Law January 2020
Transfer of Seized Shares Newsletter Articles
Transfer of Seized Shares
Commercial Law July 2019
Corporatization of Football Clubs Newsletter Articles
Corporatization of Football Clubs
Commercial Law April 2019
Installment Sales Agreements Newsletter Articles
Installment Sales Agreements
Commercial Law July 2018
Updated FIDIC Contracts Newsletter Articles
Updated FIDIC Contracts
Commercial Law April 2018
Features of Joint Venture Contract Newsletter Articles
Features of Joint Venture Contract
Commercial Law October 2017
Holding Company Structure under Turkish Law Newsletter Articles
Holding Company Structure under Turkish Law
Commercial Law January 2017
Loss Of Capital in Joint Stock Companies Newsletter Articles
Loss Of Capital in Joint Stock Companies
Commercial Law September 2015
Amendments To The Turkish Commercial Code By Omnibus Law No. 6552 Newsletter Articles
Conditional Capital Increase Newsletter Articles
Conditional Capital Increase
Commercial Law March 2014
The Contribution Of Receivables As Capital in Commercial Companies Newsletter Articles
The Practice of Unforeseen Circumstance in EPC Contracts Newsletter Articles

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