We are not a law firm. That is the useful part.
Legal work in a Türkiye operation is performed by members of the bar. What is usually missing is not more legal advice — it is somebody making sure the advice reaches the operation, the documents match what is actually happening, and nothing waits three weeks for a decision nobody owns.
yobiT is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Matters reserved to advocates under Advocacy Law No. 1136 are performed by members of the Turkish bar, instructed on your behalf and owing their professional duty to you.
What we hold is everything around that: identifying what needs legal input, instructing the right counsel, keeping the documents and deadlines, and making sure the legal position and the operational reality describe the same thing.
Who does what, and why it is written here.
Representation before the courts and the other acts reserved to advocates belong to the bar. This is not a commercial arrangement that can be varied by agreement, and a provider implying otherwise is describing something that does not exist.
We set the division out on this page rather than in an engagement letter, because a client discovering it later has reasonable grounds to feel misled — and because the arrangement works better when everyone knew from the start.
Counsel
Legal advice, reserved acts, representation in proceedings and the opinions you rely on. Instructed on your behalf, acting for you, owing you a professional duty directly.
Law No. 1136Coordination
Spotting what needs legal input before it becomes urgent, instructing the right firm, holding documents and deadlines, and keeping the contract and the operation describing the same thing.
What we doLegal basisActs reserved to advocates sit in Advocacy Law No. 1136. Data protection obligations arise under Law No. 6698 (KVKK). Trademark and industrial property filings are made under Industrial Property Law No. 6769.
The expensive problems come from a gap between what the contract says and what actually happens.
Why coordination is not an administrative roleDocuments drift.
Operations move faster.
A contract is drafted correctly for what was planned. Then the business changes: a different party starts giving instructions, a service becomes something closer to employment, goods move under a regime nobody re-examined, a subcontractor appears who is not in any agreement.
Nobody decided to create that gap. It opened because the documents sat with counsel and the operation sat with somebody else, and no one was watching both.
Turkish authorities assess substance over form. When the two diverge, the activity wins and the paperwork becomes evidence of what was intended rather than a defence.
What we coordinate.
In each of these, the reserved legal work is performed by counsel. What is listed is the coordination around it.
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Corporate and commercial matters
Resolutions, registrations, corporate records and the filings that follow a decision. Keeping the corporate history in a state that supports the next transaction.
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Contracts
Briefing counsel on the commercial reality, then holding the executed versions, the renewal dates and the obligations that someone has to actually perform.
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Employment questions
Getting the employment position reviewed before a decision is implemented, particularly around structure, termination and anything that changes who directs the work.
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Data protection — KVKK
Türkiye's own regime under Law No. 6698, with its own registration and transfer requirements. Coordination of the assessment, plus the operational side that has to keep running.
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IP and trademark
Filings under Industrial Property Law No. 6769 through registered attorneys, and the renewal calendar. File before you announce.
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Disputes
Conducted by counsel. We handle documents, evidence from the business and coordination with your other providers while the process runs.
Some clients arrive with lawyers they already trust and ask us to work alongside them. Others ask us to propose firms suited to the matter. In both cases the engagement for reserved legal work is between you and the law firm.
We are specific about this because presenting legal work as something we supply would misdescribe both the relationship and who owes you a professional duty when it matters.
Questions we are actually asked.
Beginning with the one this page exists to answer.
Are you providing legal services?
No. yobiT is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Matters reserved to advocates under Advocacy Law No. 1136 are performed by members of the Turkish bar, instructed on your behalf and acting for you.
What we do is organise that work: identifying what needs legal input, instructing the right counsel, holding the documents and deadlines, and making sure the legal position and the operational reality describe the same thing.
Do we appoint the lawyer or do you?
Either. Some clients arrive with counsel they already trust and want us to work alongside them. Others ask us to propose firms suited to the matter. In both cases the engagement for reserved legal work is between you and the law firm.
We are explicit about this because the alternative — presenting legal work as something we supply — would misdescribe both the relationship and who owes you a professional duty.
Why does the contract keep mattering in your other pages?
Because the most expensive problems in this market come from a gap between what a contract says and what actually happens. An arrangement described as a service that operates as employment, or a structure whose documents do not match the activity, will be assessed on the activity.
Keeping those two aligned is operational work as much as legal work, and it is where a coordination layer earns its place.
What about data protection?
Türkiye has its own data protection regime under Law No. 6698 — KVKK — with its own registration, notification and transfer requirements. It resembles European rules in places and differs in others, and assuming your existing GDPR programme covers it is a common and expensive mistake.
We coordinate the assessment and the work with counsel, and hold the operational side: records, registrations and the processes that have to actually run.
Can you register our trademark?
Trademark and industrial property applications are made under Industrial Property Law No. 6769 through the Turkish patent and trademark office, by attorneys registered for that purpose. We coordinate the filing and the renewal calendar.
The practical advice is to file before you announce anything. Entering a market and then discovering your name is already registered here is a bad week.
What happens if there is a dispute?
Litigation and the acts reserved to advocates are conducted by counsel. We stay involved on the operational side — documents, evidence from the business, coordination with your other providers and keeping the commercial consequences visible while the legal process runs.
Legislation named on this page: Advocacy Law No. 1136, Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 and Industrial Property Law No. 6769. The Official Gazette date and issue for each is on the key figures page, read at source rather than restated here — a citation does not change, but a copy of the law goes stale.
Governance
All three licensed professions, what we answer for, and the work we decline.
Business Setup
Articles, activity codes and the boundary of what your company may invoice for.
HR
Why employment is decided by what happens rather than by what the contract says.