Legal strategy from a single centre in a crisis.
A search, detention, data breach, product recall, or media crisis — legal coordination properly set up in the first hours determines much of the outcome. The crisis desk is run from a single centre.
An integrated legal framework for Crisis Management
In a crisis, the legal issue is often not merely a matter of litigation or contract; board resolutions, employee relations, media risk, evidence security, contact with public authorities, and business continuity all arise at the same time.
From the very first hour of a crisis, the Köksal team maps out the incident, defines responsibilities, and builds a practicable response plan that protects the company's commercial objective.
Services We Offer in This Focus Area
In the Crisis Management focus area, we bring the relevant legal disciplines together into a single working plan.
First 48 Hours Response
Incident mapping, urgent legal measures and the decision chain; we clarify what must and must not be done in the first hours of the crisis.
Explore →Evidence & Record Security
Protecting emails, system logs and documents; we secure them within the limits of the KVKK (Turkish Personal Data Protection Law) without breaking the chain of evidence.
Explore →Board of Directors Advisory
We assess the liability dimension of crisis decisions; we justify and document decisions in a defensible manner.
Explore →Crisis Communication Coordination
We align press and stakeholder communications with legal risk; we manage the impact of statements on litigation and investigation processes.
Explore →Authority & Audit Contact
We manage contact with public authorities, auditors, and insurers through a single channel, observing notification obligations.
Explore →Recovery & Exit Plan
We tie post-crisis dispute, compensation, and reputation repair steps to a scheduled roadmap.
Explore →Composed legal counsel in moments of chaos
In crises, the most lasting damage arises from the wrong decisions made in the first hours: a deleted record, a hasty statement, a missed notification. We manage the crisis from a single centre, in a prioritised and documented manner.
- A response setup prepared in advance with crisis protocols
- Meticulous follow-up on evidence security and notification deadlines
- Single-point alignment of legal, communications and management actions
- Experienced coordination on the media and reputation dimension
- Seamless transition to post-crisis litigation and collection processes
Related Practice Areas
The legal disciplines this focus area draws on.
Related Services
Our services most often engaged in this focus area — together with their scope.
Risk & Preventive Advisory
Risk and preventive advisory: we identify, analyse, and manage legal risks with preventive strategies before they turn into disputes. We map out your contract risk profile and clear problems before they even arise.
Explore →Litigation
In commercial and civil litigation, we provide holistic defence — from case strategy to pleadings, from evidence management to hearing representation, all the way through the appeal and cassation stages. We are also at your side in the recognition and enforcement of cross-border judgments.
Explore →Contract Management
Contract management covers the drafting, negotiation and full-lifecycle tracking of your commercial contracts. Weighing Turkish law together with DACH-region practice, we structure balanced and enforceable texts.
Explore →Enforcement Proceedings
From enforcement with and without a court judgment to attachment, and from the annulment of objection to bankruptcy and composition with creditors, we pursue every enforcement process under the Turkish Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law (İİK) with determination. Our aim is the actual collection of your receivable in the shortest possible time.
Explore →Ongoing Legal Counsel
Ongoing legal counsel provides retainer-based legal support for your company's day-to-day operations — readily accessible and with predictable costs. As your external legal counsel, we stand by you at every stage of your decisions.
Explore →Related Sectors
The sectors this focus area touches often.
Media & Press
Content, freedom of expression, reputation, advertising, copyright, data and dispute advisory for media, publishing and press organisations.
Explore →Banking & Finance
Advisory services in banking, fintech, payments, lending, collateral, investment, regulation and financial dispute processes.
Explore →Technology
Legal advisory on licensing, SaaS, data, intellectual property, investment, scaling, compliance, and product law for technology companies.
Explore →Insurance
Advisory on policy, claims, subrogation, distribution channels, regulation, and disputes in insurance and reinsurance processes.
Explore →Related Regional Desks
Our cross-border and specialist desks that run this focus area.
Track Record: Selected Matters
Anonymised examples of our work in this focus area, including the approach, process and outcome.
Data breach response and notification management
Managing detection, legal assessment, authority notifications, and communications from a single plan when a system breach is suspected.
Review the matter →Debt recovery in a CMR carriage dispute
Managing the litigation and enforcement process in a compensation dispute arising from cross-border carriage.
Review the matter →Representation of a Turkish manufacturer in ICC arbitration
Strategy, case management and representation in a dispute arising from a cross-border supply contract.
Review the matter →Emergency response on the day of the search and subsequent defence
Response within hours to the search and seizure at the company headquarters; record-keeping, privileged-document objections and ongoing defence.
Review the matter →Team in This Focus Area
Crisis Management and meet our experienced multilingual team.
Related Publications
Crisis Management — latest insights and guides.
Related Legislation
Crisis Management — the legislation that directly affects this focus area, tracked in plain language on our Legislation Radar.
The new regime treats software, updates and AI systems as products, eases the claimant’s burden of proof and makes the EU importer strictly liable; it applies to products placed on the market after 09.12.2026.
TRTürkiyeLawIn forceCybersecurity Law (No. 7545)Source · Official Gazette 19.03.2025, No. 32846In force · 19.03.2025Last amended · May 2026 (critical infrastructure sectors determined)A framework statute covering every real and legal person operating in cyberspace in Türkiye; its incident reporting, procurement and audit duties, and the approval requirement for share transfers, are binding today.
Statements made in the moment of a crisis can be used in litigation as an admission, a notification of breach, or an undertaking. Pre-approved message frameworks and a single-spokesperson rule speed up communication while reducing legal risk; we build the plan together with your communications team.
You have the right to check the scope of the search warrant, to request the presence of a lawyer, and to enter a reservation into the official report; you are not obliged to allow access to systems outside the scope. Our team provides guidance by telephone at the moment of the search and representation on site.
The decision must be made through a documented assessment, together with product safety legislation, contractual obligations, and insurance notifications. The scope of the recall and the wording of the announcement directly affect liability; we conduct the process in coordination with the competent authorities.
Your first point of contact should be your legal team, because the steps taken in the first hours have irreversible consequences for evidence, liability, and notification deadlines. We coordinate the crisis from a single centre and tie the other advisers into that framework.
There should be a single spokesperson, and statements must be aligned with the legal team; a seemingly innocent sentence can be used as an admission in litigation. We prepare crisis communication texts together with you, filtering out the legal risks.
Yes — that is the most effective approach. A crisis protocol defines in advance who is to be called, which records are to be preserved, and the steps for the first 48 hours. For our ongoing advisory clients, this protocol is a standard component.
Policies and legislation impose short notification periods in most incidents; delay can lead to the loss of coverage or of rights. As soon as you learn of the incident, we draw up an inventory of your notification obligations, and you leave tracking the deadlines to us.
Let's build a legal strategy in the Crisis Management focus area.
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