With the advent of rapidly changing and advancing technologies, it has become increasingly challenging for companies to sustain their existing positions within both global and local ecosystems, and to render the integration of business processes into the digital realm an imperative. In such process of digital transformation, it is of utmost importance for companies to identify the potential risks, in particular those related to the rights and freedoms of data subjects whose personal data is processed, as well as to implement appropriate measures to prevent and/or minimize these risks in order to facilitate the development of their business-growth strategies in a more practical and effective manner.

NAZALI provides comprehensive support to its clients in every area that intersects with information technologies. Closely following all developments related to disruptive technologies in both national and international regulations, NAZALI offers the most suitable solutions to meet the needs of its clients. With its team specialized in technology-related transactions, intellectual property rights, licensing processes and other agreements, outsourcing, financial technologies, payment systems, crypto assets, telecommunications, artificial intelligence applications, and other innovative technologies, NAZALI carries out effective and solution-oriented work. Aiming to be a reliable partner for its clients in their digital transformation processes, NAZALI is committed to offering innovative and sustainable approaches at every step.

In addition, NAZALI is also one of the most prestigious and trusted offices in Turkey in the field of data protection and privacy, supported by a team of specialized lawyers with up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of Turkish personal data protection law, which is developing in parallel with the European Union regulations, and experience in numerous compliance and audit projects in various regulated and non-regulated sectors. Hence, NAZALI’s ever-creasing success in the relevant field is recognized and honored by independent rating platforms for legal consultancy services.

NAZALI not only closely monitors developments in the Law numbered 6698 on the Personal Data Protection and its secondary legislation, but also keeps abreast of current global developments in such field, and continues to work on ensuring the compliance of its clients’ personal data processing activities with the relevant legislation by harmonizing latest trends with the needs of its clients. Within this scope, NAZALI, by being an inter-disciplinary firm with an international network and overseas offices, offers its clients a wide range of value-added services at both national and international levels.

In this respect, the services retained by NAZALI are as follows:

• Conducting full compliance project with the personal data protection legislation
• Conducting legal risk analysis
• Drafting the necessary legal documents within the framework of personal data protection law
• Providing consultancy on process design and implementation in accordance with the principles of privacy by design and privacy by default (e.g., establishment of website / call center process designs)
• Providing awareness trainings on personal data protection and data security
• Conducting internal and external compliance audits regarding personal data protection regulations
• Providing legal guidance in order to ensure that personal data transfers, including cross-border data transfers, are carried out in compliance with the personal data protection legislation
• Providing legal guidance in cases of data breaches
• Managing communications with the Personal Data Protection Authority on behalf of clients
• Providing legal guidance on registration and registration update processes for the Data Controllers’ Registry
• Providing legal guidance on data subject requests (DSARs)
• Providing consultancy on the protection of personal data in regulated sectors (e.g., banking, telecommunications, energy, healthcare)
• Providing consultancy on the protection of personal data in mergers and acquisitions, and on the transfer of ownership / line of business
• Forming procedures for corporate monitoring activities, particularly in relation to employee entrance and exit records, CCTV surveillance, usage of vehicles and internet and e-mail activity
• Resolving of disputes relating to the protection of personal data
• Providing consultancy on the protection of personal data in investigation processes
• Providing retainer services on personal data protection (e.g., reviewing and revising contracts to be signed with third parties from the perspective of personal data protection law)
• Providing compliance consultancy regarding the commercial electronic communications legislation
• Providing consultancy services for digital transformation processes
• Providing consultancy and compliance services for financial technologies, payment systems, and crypto assets
• Drafting technology-related contracts, including those for outsourcing, intellectual property, and licensing, and negotiating them with internal and external stakeholders
• Providing consultancy at every stage of technology acquisitions, investments, and other asset or equity-based transactions involving technology or technology ventures
• Monitoring regulatory developments in artificial intelligence and other disruptive technologies, contributing to these developments, and providing consultancy services related to them