Professional Experience
Ercan has extensive experience in insolvency, construction claims and employment cases. In this capacity, Ercan has successfully assisted a number of corporations in structural reorganizations and insolvency filings. Ercan has also handled numerous employment cases and has experience representing both corporations and employees. Ercan is known for his assertive style in litigation. He is aa court certified expert on “calculation methods in employee receivable claims.”
Practice Areas
We regularly assist our clients on restructuring and re-organization of corporate groups. We have the ability to handle statutory restructurings as well as voluntary reorganizations. We work closely and efficiently with tax advisors to enable the best possible outcome for our clients.
Our team has a wealth of experience acting for shareholders and corporations experiencing financial stress. We help our clients and their boards of directors on debt and corporate restructuring, carve-outs, reorganisations and when necessary insolvency filings.
We handle disputes with the aim to resolve them as efficiently as possible first through mediation and have a strong track record of instigating amicable settlement of disputes. Once we proceed, however, we are assertive and thorough in our style. We have successfully represented international corporations, prominent Turkish companies and individuals on a wide-range of legal issues and sectors on contentious matters in Turkey.
Our employment litigation is capable of handling all legal issues arising from termination of employment to thefts of confidential information and mobbing claims. Our employment litigation team works closely with our corporate team to provide the Gökkılıç Model training to corporations to identify risk areas, take action and prevent claims.
Our real estate team provides legal advice on real estate development projects, construction agreements, co-ownership structures and other types of real estate transactions. Our clients range from private equity to property developers. We also an extensive hotels and leisure experience.
Increasingly businesses are carving out their non-core functions. Carve-outs pose a large number legal issues in a wide range of areas such as employment, tax planning, liability, and regulatory. Whether on the buy-side or the sell-side we help our clients classify and solve risks identified in due diligence and negotiate the transaction agreements with business functionality point of view.