Gün + Partners
We are one of the oldest and largest law firms in Turkey and are considered internationally to be among the top-tier of legal services providers.
We are a full-service law firm leading the intellectual property field among others, providing dispute management, advisory, transactional, prosecution, investigation, and regulatory markets law services to domestic and multinational corporations.
We are based in Istanbul, with working and correspondent offices in Ankara, Izmir and the major commercial centres in Turkey.
We operate mainly in Turkish and English and also work fluently in German and French.
We advise a large portfolio of clients in numerous fields of activity including life sciences, insurance and reinsurance, energy, construction & real estate, logistics, technology, media and telecoms, automotive, FMCG, chemicals and the defense industries.
Our vision is to be the leader in the services we provide, sensitive to wider society, the environment, and our employees as an innovative and sustainable institution.
Our clients’ success is at the heart of our own success. We closely monitor developments in the business sectors in which our clients operate and invest in accumulating industry specific knowledge to understand their changing needs. We actively participate in professional, trade and business organisations in Turkey and internationally.
We are committed to adapt to our clients’ changing business needs by delivering innovative, high quality and commercially prudent legal solutions.
Gün + Partners
Kore Şehitleri Cad. 17 Zincirlikuyu 34394
İstanbul, Turkey
+90 (212) 354 00 00
+90 (212) 274 20 95
gun@gun.av.tr
https://gun.av.tr/
Begüm Yavuzdoğan Okumuş
Email: begum.yavuzdogan@gun.av.tr
T: + 90 (212) 354 00 24
Begüm Yavuzdoğan Okumuş has been with the firm since 2007 and became a partner in 2021. Her practice focuses on data protection and privacy, corporate and M&A, life sciences, and competition.
Begüm deals with all aspects of data protection and privacy, including supervising and conducting data privacy compliance projects, advising multinational clients in their activities on a day to day basis as well as in their specific projects. She has sector specific knowledge in regulated sectors and advises clients on newly developed devices/apps to ensure compliance. Begüm advises clients on international data transfer of personal data and represents clients before the Turkish DPA. She assists clients in data breach notifications and investigations, provides appeal strategies to object to Turkish DPA decisions rendered against our clients. Begüm represents multinational companies operating in various industries including pharmaceutical, medical device, telecoms, banking and automotive industry. She holds Certified Information Privacy Professional Europe (CIPP/E) designation from the International Association of Privacy Professionals and she is one of the former co-chairs of IAPP Knowledgenet Istanbul Chapter, and founding member of Data Protection Association in Istanbul.
Begüm led several M&A projects including due diligence processes and assisted various local and foreign companies during incorporation of their partnership in special projects which also include transfer of technology, know-how and thus needs protection in this respect. She drafted and negotiated several joint-venture agreements, shareholders agreement, share pledge and voting agreements. In addition to her corporate law expertise, she has experience in competition law related matters and provides full service to clients in their corporate law related matters. Apart from providing consultancy services and trainings, she is also representing clients before the TCA about notifications and investigations.
Having wide range of experience in pharmaceutical and medical device industry, Begum advised and represented several multinational pharmaceutical and medical device companies on their commercial deals and needs, including advising on their new investments in Turkey, marketing authorization and asset transfers, corporate restructuring projects, negotiating distributorship agreements and termination of these agreements, and advising on localisation projects.