An organisation legally prepared for a cyber incident.
From the incident response plan to NIS2 scoping analysis, from cyber insurance recourse to supplier security clauses — we build the legal layer of cybersecurity end to end.
An integrated legal framework for Cybersecurity
A cybersecurity breach is not merely a technical incident. Notification deadlines, personal data risk, contractual liability, insurance, reputation, and the security of evidence must be managed at the same time.
Working together with technical teams, we plan the legal side of incident response, the notification obligations, and third-party liabilities in a workable manner.

Services We Offer in This Focus Area
In the Cybersecurity focus area, we combine the relevant legal disciplines into a single work plan.
Incident Response Support
Operating the legal response plan in a cyber incident; managing the notification, evidence and communication steps.
Explore →Breach Notifications
Making notifications to KVKK, GDPR, and sectoral regulators on time and with the correct scope.
Explore →Supplier & SLA Agreements
Negotiating security, liability, and audit provisions with IT and cloud suppliers.
Explore →Policy & ISMS Law
Placing information security policies and the access regime on a legal footing.
Explore →Cyber Insurance & Recourse
Cyber policy coverage analysis, claim processes and recourse against parties at fault.
Explore →Post-Incident Disputes
Defence against customer claims, compensation lawsuits and administrative sanctions.
Explore →At the same table as the technical team, with legal discipline
When lawyers are called in late during cyber incidents, notification deadlines are missed, evidence is compromised, and communications generate new risks. With our Data & Cybersecurity Desk, we get involved as fast as the technical team and manage the process while reducing the risk of sanctions and litigation.
- A legal response setup accessible 24/7 at the moment of an incident
- Command of timing and scope in KVKK/GDPR notifications
- Established working practice with digital forensics teams
- Experience in coverage and recourse under cyber insurance policies
- A Legal Engineering approach that translates technical language into law

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.
Data & Document Management
Data and document management brings secure storage, KVKK/GDPR compliance, and the access and authorisation framework together under one roof. We manage your information without losing any of it, while protecting confidentiality and keeping it audit-ready.
Explore →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 →Compliance
Compliance advisory: we build programmes that bring your company into line with KVKK/GDPR, anti-corruption rules, and sectoral regulations. Through internal audit, policy, and training, we turn compliance into a lasting corporate culture.
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 →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 →Related Sectors
The sectors this focus area touches often.
Technology
Legal advisory on licensing, SaaS, data, intellectual property, investment, scaling, compliance, and product law for technology companies.
Explore →Banking & Finance
Advisory services in banking, fintech, payments, lending, collateral, investment, regulation and financial dispute processes.
Explore →Healthcare
Regulatory, data, contract, investment and dispute advisory for healthcare services, medical products and the pharmaceutical ecosystem.
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.
Data & Cybersecurity Desk
Integrated advice spanning multiple jurisdictions in KVKK and GDPR compliance, cross-border data transfer, and cyber incident response.
Explore →Legal Tech Desk
International advisory on process innovation, compliance and scalable legal architecture for legal-technology ventures and next-generation business models.
Explore →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 →NIS2 scoping analysis and the establishment of security governance
NIS2 scope assessment for an EU-linked operation; establishing management responsibility, a policy set and an incident-reporting scheme.
Review the matter →Aligning the cyber insurance policy with operations
Comparing the security warranties in the cyber policy against the actual state of affairs; establishing supplier security clauses and a notification framework.
Review the matter →Team in This Focus Area
Cybersecurity and meet our experienced multilingual team.
Related Publications
Cybersecurity — latest insights and guides.
Related Legislation
Cybersecurity — the legislation that directly affects this focus area, tracked in plain language on our Legislation Radar.
The framework of the EU data protection regime: it also directly covers Turkish companies that offer goods and services to persons in the EU or monitor their behaviour.
TRTürkiyeLawIn forcePersonal Data Protection Law (KVKK, 6698)Source · RG 29677, 07.04.2016In force · 07.04.2016Last amended · Mar 2024 (Law No. 7499) · Jan 2025 (cross-border transfer guide)Türkiye’s data protection framework: the 2024 amendments re-established the regime for special-category data and cross-border transfers; the standard contract and notification to the Board are at the centre of practice.
ABAvrupa B.EU Directive & RegulationIn forceEU Cybersecurity Directive (NIS2)Source · ABl. L 333, 27.12.2022In force · 17.10.2024 (transposition into national law)Last amended · Dec 2025 (Germany: NIS2UmsuCG in force, BGBl. 2025 I No. 301)A directive that ties cybersecurity in critical and important sectors to board-level responsibility; it reaches Turkish suppliers as well, through customers and group companies in the EU.
ABAvrupa B.EU Directive & RegulationIn progressEU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)Source · OJ L 2024/2847, 20.11.2024In force · 10.12.2024 (phased; full application 11.12.2027)Last amended · Dec 2025 (Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2392)The Regulation imposing EU-wide cybersecurity requirements and CE marking on products with digital elements; a Turkish company placing such a product on the EU market is itself the manufacturer and cannot delegate these duties.
Directly, it binds only structures that provide services or have a subsidiary in the EU; however, EU customers pass supply-chain security obligations on to you by contract. We negotiate the incoming security requirements and pass them on to your subcontractors in a balanced way.
The scope of the test, authorisation, data-access limits, the confidentiality of the findings, and the allocation of liability must be in writing; otherwise the testing activity itself may turn into unlawful access. We build your test contracts within this framework.
An examination conducted under attorney coordination provides protection with respect to legal privilege, the chain of custody, and any potential litigation strategy. We structure the report together with the technical team within a scope suited to litigation and notification needs.
The decision to pay carries serious risks in terms of sanctions lists, anti-money-laundering rules, and insurance conditions, and should never be made in isolation. We manage the decision process by documenting it within a legal framework and handle the notification obligations in parallel.
Notification to the authority and public disclosure are different things: in certain cases the KVKK/GDPR also require notifying the data subjects. We determine the scope as a legal matter and structure the disclosure text so that it does not increase litigation risk.
Outsourcing does not remove liability; your obligations as the data controller continue. Recourse against the provider, in turn, depends on the security and indemnity clauses in your contract — those clauses need to be built strong from the start.
With the right coverage, yes; but policies are tied to conditions such as notification deadlines and security undertakings, and coverage can be denied if these are breached. We test your policy against incident scenarios and pursue your rights through the claims process.
Let's build a legal strategy in the Cybersecurity focus area.
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