Can Law and Mediation | Legal counseling and litigation services

Can Law and Mediation Office is an established legal practice based in Izmit, Kocaeli, led by founding attorney Candua Önür and attorney-mediator Abdullah Serdar Önür. Operating from its office on Atatürk Boulevard in the Kadıköy district of Kocaeli, the firm provides extensive advocacy, dispute resolution, and legal consulting services to individuals and corporate entities across the Marmara region, covering jurisdictions such as Kocaeli, Istanbul, Yalova, Sakarya, Bursa, Bilecik, and Düzce.

The firm’s practice is anchored in core professional principles of confidentiality, independence, objective evaluation, and procedural transparency. Rather than treating litigation as the only path, the firm focuses on pre-litigation risk analysis, contract structuring, and alternative dispute resolution mechanisms to safeguard clients’ rights efficiently.

The primary practice areas handled by Can Law and Mediation Office include:

• Criminal Law: Representation of suspects, defendants, or complainants throughout investigation and prosecution stages. Services involve detention and interrogation attendance, trial defense, procedural appeals, and securing compensation for wrongful prosecution measures.

• Family Law: Managing contested and uncontested divorce proceedings, child custody arrangements, spousal and child maintenance, paternity lawsuits, protective injunctions, and the division of matrimonial assets between spouses.

• Labor and Employment Law: Legal support covering employer-employee disputes, severance and notice pay recovery, unlawful termination, reinstatement claims, workplace accidents, and drafting and reviewing customized employment contracts.

• Commercial and Corporate Law: Corporate formation, drafting partnership and shareholder agreements, resolving commercial receivables disputes, handling merger processes, and continuous preventive legal counseling for businesses.

• Real Estate and Property Law: Title deed transactions, cancellation and registration suits, mortgage registrations and removals, drafting residential and commercial lease contracts, eviction procedures, and partition actions (dissolution of joint ownership).

• Inheritance and Succession Law: Obtaining certificates of inheritance, estate distribution agreements, drafting wills, reduction claims, and lawsuits addressing collusion among heirs (muris muvazaası).

• Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law: Collecting debts based on checks, promissory notes, judicial judgments, and contractual claims through execution offices. Managing attachment procedures, asset liquidation, insolvency defense, and concordat processes.

• Consumer Law: Representing consumers and commercial vendors before Consumer Arbitration Boards and specialized Consumer Courts in cases involving defective goods and services, installment sales, and contractual breaches.

• Mediation Services: Conducting mandatory and voluntary mediation proceedings as an officially registered mediator, helping conflicting parties achieve legally binding and cost-effective settlement agreements without trial delay.

• Colleague Representation and Agency (Tevkil): Providing hearing attendance, enforcement inspections, and file examination services for partner law firms throughout the court districts of Kocaeli—including Gebze, Gölcük, Körfez, and Darıca—as well as adjacent provinces in the Marmara basin.