MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT
BTS & Partners advises clients of the entertainment sector, such as online gaming and online betting companies, film, TV and music producers, broadcasters, radio stations, about drafting and assessing their respected agreements (such as licensing agreements, software agreements, actors agreements, advertising agreements, cable, satellite and IP broadcasting agreements etc). BTS & Partners holds solid experience in representing clients from the entertainment sector for any type of IPR disputes.
Tuğrul Sevim (LL.M.)
Selin Beceni (LL.M.)
Ecem Gündüz
Erdem Aslan
Çağdaş Çizer
İrem Naz Dolu
Practice Areas
Education
Bar Admissions & Memberships
Languages
Selin specializes in M&As as well as in corporate law, public procurement law, property law and employment law. She has over 15 years of experience covering the whole range of corporate and M&A work, including the incorporation of foreign-capitalized companies, conducting share sale transactions, asset sales, joint ventures, investment agreements and resolving shareholders' conflicts. She is also experienced in public procurement law, employment law and property law.
In recent years, Selin was involved in various mid-level private M&A deals and also represented clients bidding for major public tenders. She also advised one of the most prestigious venture capital funds of Turkey for its investments to various portfolio companies in ICT sector.
Practice Areas
Personal Data Protection & Privacy
Media & Entertainment
Outsourcing & Technology Transfers
Electronic Communications
Intellectual Property
Regulatory Compliance
Contracts & Business Set-ups
Corporate and M&A
Employment
Information Technologies
Education
Ankara University, Faculty of Law LL.B.
Bar Admissions & Memberships
Ankara Bar
Istanbul Bar
International Bar
Women Presidents Organization-Turkey Chapter
Languages
Turkish, English
Zeynep Ünlü
Senior Managing Counsel - Attorney at Law
zeynep.unlu@bts-legal.com
AWARDS
Zeynep specializes in M&A, Corporate law, Investments and Employment law. With 10 years of experience, she specialized in corporate and transactional works, with a focus on FDI, NGOs, VCs and private equity funds as well as entrepreneurs. She has led the incorporation of Turkish entities for several prestigious global and local NGOs, as well as for venture capital funds, which she still advises regularly.
Practice Areas
Contracts
Corporate and M&A
Dispute Resolution
Employment
Fintech
Information Technologies
IP
Outsourcing & Technology Transfers
Pro Bono
Public Projects & Procurement
Education
Koç University, Law School, LL.B.
Bar Admissions & Memberships
Istanbul Bar
Languages
Turkish, English
Ecem specializes in IT law, contracts law, e-commerce law and intellectual property law. She has deep experience and understanding in drawing up contracts regarding IT and telecommunication matters, notably on development, licensing, integration, and outsourcing. She assists clients in understanding, negotiating and drafting complex contracts with a strong intellectual property content on a wide range of subjects while helping them to develop their general strategies and designing their business models. She also runs IT market legal risk analysis whilst managing regulatory and technical compliance projects.
Practices Areas
Contracts
Corporate and M&A
Electronic Communication
Fintech
Information Technologies
IP
Media & Entertainment
Outsourcing & Technology Transfers
Pro Bono
Regulatory Compliance
Education
Yeditepe University, Faculty of Law, LL.B.
Galatasaray University, Faculty of Law, Business Law, L.L.M.
Bar Admissions & Memberships
Istanbul Bar
Languages
Turkish, English
Erdem advises on Turkish personal data protection and electronic communications law. He works with both local and international clients in the Turkish telecommunications market. Besides advising on several projects with some of the most important communications operators in Turkey, he works with international operators on local regulatory compliance matters.
Practice Areas
Electronic Communication
Fraud & Cyber Security
Information Technologies
Media & Entertainment
Outsourcing & Technology Transfer
Personal Data Protection Law
Pro Bono
Regulatory Compliance
Education
Galatasaray University, Faculty of Law, LL.B.
Galatasaray University, Faculty of Law, Private Law, L.L.M.
Bars Admissions & Memberships
Istanbul Bar
European Privacy Certification – Information Privacy Professional for Europe, IAPP
Languages
Turkish, English, French
Çağdaş offers consultancy in content regulation as well as intellectual property law, information technology law and electronic communication law. He has worked on a significant number of cases, in which he has represented fortune 500 clients before common courts, during mediations and in informal settlement talks.
Practice Areas
Dispute Resolution
Employment
Electronic Communication
Information Technologies
Intellectual Property
Media & Entertainment
Education
Kadir Has University, School of Law, LL.B.
Bar Admissions & Memberships
Istanbul Bar
Languages
Turkish, English
Umut Bakanoğulları
Associate - Attorney at Law
umut.bakanogullari@bts-legal.com
AWARDS
Umut particularly works on drafting contracts regarding investments, trademarks, patents and other intellectual property and technology transfers and IT law, advises clients for business set-ups and other commercial, employment and regulatory needs, provides daily preventative maintenance and counseling services for multinational and national clients, provides regulatory compliance matters with regards to information and communications technologies and e-commerce sector. Umut also provides assistance on various competition law matters, with its extensive experience in competition law prior to joining BTS.
Practice Areas
Blockchain Technology
Contracts & Business Set-ups
Competition
Fintech
Information Technologies
Intellectual Property
Media & Entertainment
Outsourcing & Technology Transfers
Regulatory Compliance
Education
Istanbul University, Faculty of Law LL.B.
Bar Admissions &
Memberships
Istanbul Bar
ELSA Lawyers Society
Languages
Turkish, English, French
Yasin Beceni (LL.M.)
Managing Partner - Attorney at Law
yasin.beceni@bts-legal.com
AWARDS
Yasin
Beceni is the managing partner of BTS&Partners. He advises clients on a
wide range of commercial transactions including outsourcing agreements and
other procurement arrangements as well as advising generally on contentious,
non-contentious and transactional information and communication technologies
and intellectual property law issues including information security,
investments, regulatory compliance, privacy- data protection, new products and
services, digital media, payment services, e-commerce.
He
also has significant experience on information society issues at a national and
European Union level more than 20 years and advising on legal-regulatory risk
analysis, product and services deployment and development in Turkish market,
regulatory compliance and market entry strategy for large multinationals,
engagement strategies with governmental, academic and non-governmental
institutions. He advises clients in drafting and negotiating large
infrastructure, project and services contracts, joint venture/company
agreements as well as agreements relating to acquisition of significant stakes
in telecom and tech companies. Mr. Yasin Beceni's clients include various
Fortune 500 companies, big tech companies, NGO's, Turkish large business
conglomerates, telecommunications companies, media companies, financial
institutions, software and hardware suppliers and other large multinational
companies.
Mr.
Beceni is actively involved in conferences, trainings, congresses,
publications, seminars, councils, panels,
legislative commissions, workshops, and strategy workgroups, within his expertise areas. Mr. Beceni
actively renders consultancy services to various leading NGOs and academic
institutions in technology and legal related matters. Within his contributions
to the efforts in relation to shape up the information society legal
infrastructure in Turkey; he has been contributing in many regulatory/policy
making initiations/efforts. In this regard he was elected as a member of
Ministry of Justice E-Commerce Draft
Code Scientific Commission, Data Protection Draft Code Scientific Commission and New Turkish Commercial Draft Code Scientific
Commission. He is the chief legal advisor of TUBISAD (Turkish Informatics
Industry Association) and executive-execution board member of TBV (Turkish
Informatics Foundation). He is also a member of several national and international prestigious NGO’s and
elected the committee member of these
organizations such as; Turkish Industry and Business Association
(TÜSİAD) Information Society,
Information-Communication Technologies & Innovation Committee; ABFT (American Business Forum in Turkey);
Communication Committee of Turkish National
Commission for UNESCO.
Mr. Beceni is also a part-time lecturer at Istanbul Bilgi University and Sabancı University. He gives a course entitled Information and Communication Law Policies and Strategies in ICT Law LL.M. Program at Istanbul Bilgi University and gives a course entitled Legal Aspects of Data Driven Economy and Legal Ethics in Data Analytics Master Program at Sabancı University. He also contributes academic works around the world at the leading academic institutions as a visiting lecturer.
Education
Marmara University, Faculty of Law,
LL.B.
Bilgi University, Faculty of Law, Economics Law, LL.M.
Bar Admissions & Memberships
Istanbul Bar Association
Turkish Informatics Foundation
International Technology Law Association (ITechLaw)
International Bar Association – Technology Committee
HIS RECOGNITIONS
Yasin Beceni has been accredited
as ‘without doubt a shining star’ Legal 500 2012 and recognised as Turkey’s Leading individual in Technology
Media Telecom (TMT) more
than eight years accredited as ‘helping to redefine what a law
firm should be doing in the years and decades ahead’ and described as ‘simply the best in his field’ Legal 500 2013 and ‘knows the IT sphere in Turkey
inside and out, and complements his legal strength with a strong strategic
focus and quality counsel’ Legal 500
2014 and ‘a star among Turkish IT lawyers’ Legal 500 2015 and “combines commercial thinking with a passion for
technology law and policy’ Legal 500
2016 and ‘top person for telecoms’, ’the ‘deeply knowledgeable’ Legal 500 2017- 2018. Yasin Beceni
has been awarded in ‘hall of
fame’ list and listed leading individual by Legal 500 EMEA 2019.
Yasin Beceni has also been accredited as “one and only top ranked lawyer” in TMT by Chambers Europe and described as “always searches for new opportunities and prepares the best strategies." by Chambers Europe 2015 and "a very smart, creative and ambitious lawyer,“ "He is pragmatic, thoughtful and knows the technical matters” by Chambers Europe 2016 and "very accomplished, follows up on any matters I assign to him and gives personal reports for every project we are involved in
İrem Naz offers consultancy in content regulation as well as Information Technologies Law. She advises multinational and national clients in Consumer Law, eCommerce, Contract Law and Cyber Security Law. She also provides litigation services in civil cases mostly on consumer disputes and criminal cases related to cyber-crimes.
Practice Areas
Dispute Resolution
Fraud&Cyber Security
Contracts
Consumer Law
Electronic Communications
Regulatory Compliance
Employment
Content Regulation
Education
Üsküdar American College
Kadir Has University, Faculty of Law, LL.B.
Bar Admissions & Memberships
İstanbul Bar
The European Law Students’ Association
Genç ISTAC
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