Data Protection & Privacy
End-to-end advisory on structuring personal data processing, building transfer architecture, and breach response under the KVKK and GDPR.
Personal data protection compliance is no longer a single legal project but a governance discipline that touches nearly every unit of a company. Law No. 7499, which entered into force in 2024, introduced fundamental changes to the KVKK's regime for cross-border transfers and special categories of data; together with the new regulation and standard contract texts published by the Board, companies have had to reassess their existing compliance infrastructure. Our office provides clients with end-to-end support in establishing, updating, and operating compliance programmes within this new framework.
Our scope of services includes preparing the personal data inventory and conducting a gap analysis, designing privacy notices and explicit consent forms, drafting internal policies and procedures, preparing data processing agreements (DPAs) and joint controllership arrangements, and managing VERBIS registration and update processes. In cross-border transfer projects, selecting standard contractual models or binding corporate rules (BCRs), conducting the Authority notification process, and designing intra-group transfer architecture are areas in which we work regularly. Cookie management and web/application compliance, structuring data subject request processes, and building data protection impact assessment (DPIA) processes are our complementary work items.
In the event of a data breach, we jointly handle the preparation of notifications to the Authority and to affected individuals, the legal layer of incident investigation and root-cause analysis, communications strategy, and, where necessary, management of the public prosecutor's process. In investigations initiated by the Authority ex officio or upon complaint, we stand by our clients in preparing responses to information and document requests, in oral defence, and in administrative litigation against Board decisions.
Our deliverables are less abstract reports than a body of documents that can be integrated into daily operations and audited: an up-to-date VERBIS registration, a board-approved data protection policy and its annexes, a signed set of standard contracts together with Authority notifications, employee awareness training materials, and a regular review cadence. We carry out this work with our clients not once a year but at a rhythm suited to the pace of legislation and Authority guidance, typically quarterly.