VERBIS Registration Deadline Extended to 5 June 2026
VERBIS Registration Deadline Extended to 5 June 2026: What Companies Newly Captured by 2025 Balance-Sheet Thresholds Need to Know In a public announcement, the Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK) confirmed that the registration and notification deadline for corporate-tax-paying legal entities that fall under the Data Controllers’ Registry (VERBİS) obligation by reason of their 2025 annual […]
Notes from Ankara: AI, Law and the Transformation of the Profession
Last weekend, at the 5th International Ankara Brand Meetings organized by the Ankara Chamber of Commerce, Vircon Legal was represented by our Managing Partner Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu. On a panel devoted to the relationship between law and artificial intelligence, Hacıpaşaoğlu took the stage alongside Cem Şanap, Orhan Fahri Başçavuşoğlu and Serdar Ülkü. The Q&A ran […]
SPK Principle Decisions and Turkey’s Crypto Ecosystem — CoinDesk Türkiye Column
Our Managing Partner Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu contributed a column to CoinDesk Türkiye assessing how the Capital Markets Board (SPK)’s principle decisions are reshaping Turkey’s crypto ecosystem. The central thesis of the piece was clear: the secondary regulation and SPK principle decisions issued after the crypto-asset law are redesigning the sector not only at the level […]
Legal Aspects of Web3 Nowadays — DeGameFi Tbilisi Panel
In August 2024, the “Legal Aspects of Web3 Nowadays” panel held at the DeGameFi conference in Tbilisi, Georgia, examined how Web3 law is being shaped today through the perspective of three lawyers operating across different jurisdictions. Our Managing Partner Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu joined the panel as a speaker. The central thesis of the panel was […]
2024 Web3 Legal Trends — Qatar Websummit Workshop
In June 2024, a closed workshop organized and hosted by our Managing Partner Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu in Doha as part of the Qatar Websummit brought together leading minds from the blockchain and crypto industries. The workshop offered an in-depth, closed-door discussion on the current and emerging trends across the crypto legal landscape; the agenda was […]
Ethereum ETFs Approved — Now the Eyes Turn to the Legal Steps | CoinDesk Türkiye Live
On May 24, 2024, our Managing Partner Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu joined CoinDesk Türkiye‘s Haftaya Bakış live broadcast and assessed the SEC’s 19b-4 approval of spot Ethereum ETF filings, alongside the legal framework taking shape in Turkey with the new crypto-asset bill submitted to the parliament. The central thesis of the broadcast was clear: the SEC’s […]
CoinDesk Türkiye Column — What the Capital Markets Law Crypto-Asset Amendment Will Bring
In May 2024, in his column on CoinDesk Türkiye, our Managing Partner Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu examined the Capital Markets Law amendment bill — also known as the Crypto-Asset Law. He assessed what the long-anticipated regulation, whose various drafts had already leaked into public discussion, would mean for investors, service providers and ecosystem stakeholders. The central […]