E. Kerim

Yardımcı

Senior Partner

    Leading Partner

    Legal 500 EMEA 2025

    Gold in prosecution and strategy

    WTR 1000 2025

    Trade Mark Star

    IP Stars - 2025

    Silver in litigation and transactions

    IAM 1000 2025

    Where Legal Foresight Meets Business Impact

    Kerim Yardımcı is a senior partner recognised for his leadership in patent, trademark, and anti-counterfeiting disputes, and for driving some of Türkiye’s most significant enforcement initiatives. He aligns litigation with commercial strategy across the life sciences, luxury, and technology sectors, turning legal foresight into tangible business outcomes.

    Kerim has been at the forefront of precedent-setting actions — from suspending marketing authorisations despite the Bolar exemption to leading Türkiye’s first use patent enforcement cases against generics. Clients trust his ability to transform critical disputes into strategic leverage, and to deliver results that extend beyond litigation into real market impact.

    Selected cases demonstrating strategic impact and precedent-setting results.

    • Pharma (Multi-Jurisdictional Patent Litigation) – Coordinated the Turkish leg of a 20-jurisdiction patent dispute, achieving early outcomes favouring the rights holder.
    • Pharma (Biosimilar Patent Strategy) – Advises a multinational on enforcing its manufacturing patent against anticipated biosimilar launches, shaping global strategy and risk management.
    • Technology (Anti-Counterfeiting) – Leads a large-scale enforcement programme combining border measures, customs training, and criminal action, with 92% success across 165 raids and over 50,000 seizures since 2020.
    • Luxury (Trademark & Distribution) – Represented a global luxury brand in a landmark trademark dispute, obtaining full injunctive relief and securing an early settlement in favour of the client.

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