Notification Comes Earlier Than You Think: Turkey’s New Merger-Control Thresholds and the Tech Exception
Turkey’s new merger-control thresholds (2026/2): the TRY 1/3/9 billion limits and the TRY 250 million rule for tech undertakings.
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Turkey’s new merger-control thresholds (2026/2): the TRY 1/3/9 billion limits and the TRY 250 million rule for tech undertakings.
Generative AI at work and KVKK: the controller’s responsibility, the right to object to automated decisions, and human-in-the-loop.
The 72-hour rule for data breaches: notifying the Board, informing data subjects, and a response plan that works in the crisis.
Handling data-subject (DSAR) requests: the 30-day deadline, identity verification, grounds for refusal and the complaint route to the Board.
Data-protection due diligence in funding and M&A: the KVKK red flags that quietly slow or kill a round, and how to clear them first.
How to run a KVKK compliance audit: data inventory, gap analysis, risk scoring and the audit report, step by step.
A reverse flip-up unwinds a US holdco structure to put a local parent back on top. Why startups do it — investor barriers, excessive flip cost, local regulation — and the tax traps to plan for.
An acqui-hire buys the team, not the product. How acqui-hires are structured, why they happen, how the money is split between investors, founders and employees, and the legal traps to avoid.
Increasingly, startups are the buyers. Why startups acquire, how they pay with stock, cash and earn-outs, and the diligence, agreement, approvals and integration that decide whether a deal creates value.
Replacing a founder-CEO with an outside professional before Series B is almost always a mistake. When it makes sense, and how board control, removal rights, and vesting really decide the outcome.