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PREFACE
We are honored to bring to you our new book “Newsletter 2015”.
Since 2010, at the end of each year we compiled the articles that
are posted monthly on our website in a book to allow our readers an
outlook on the year’s key legal developments. This book of articles
now published for the sixth year, has attracted growing attention from
our clients, business partners and fellow practitioners over the years.
While the book was well received by many of the readers, we are
highly encouraged to keep the impetus and further develop and expand
our work. It is a pleasure to see that the articles are frequently cited in
a number of scientific studies and they are now considered reliable
academic resources. This gives us pride and even greater motivation.
We continued the tradition of the past years for this publication
of Newsletter 2015. In 2015, our team wrote on a wide variety of
legal disciplines some of which are in new areas of law developed in
parallel to meet the needs of the today’s business. Further we did not
leave out the importance of comparative law and our team researched
on the developments in foreign legislations including the European
Union. This book compiles articles some of which addresses key issues
under the Draft Bill on Swiss Corporate Law, the Law on Regulation
of Retail Trade, the Law on the Regulation of Electronic Commerce,
regulations with respect to Payment Institutions, Principles and
Procedures of Factoring Transactions, Sports Arbitration, Third
Party Financing in Arbitration, Emotional Abuse in the Workplace
(Mobbing), Distance Contracts in terms of Consumer Law, and
Protection of Personal Data. The chapter on Legal Developments pro-
vides a global insight into material developments in international
agreements, laws, regulations, communiqués as well as a synopsis of
the decisions of the Turkish Competition Board and the Privatization
Authority, and a list of energy legislation made effective in 2015 and
extracts of key court precedence. We believe that this last chapter
portrays an executive look on legal developments of 2015.