Engineering, Construction & Public Procurement

CAC has comprehensive experience in construction and energy infrastructure projects. We advise our clients on EPC Contracts based upon FIDIC rules, Procurement and Services Contracts, LLI & SFII Contracts. We are fully aware of what our clients’ needs, whether our client is an employer or a contractor in a construction project. We also serve our clients in dispute resolution and arbitration issues arising from project contracts.

CAC also provides legal consultancy and attorneyship services both in tender process and in executing complaint and/or challenging complaint against the decisions of the contracting authority in relation to the public procurements within the context of Public Procurement Law numbered 4734, Public Procurement Contracts Law numbered 4735 and Law numbered 2886.

Energy and Natural Resources

We provide consultancy and litigation services in relation to:

Mining

Disputes arising from mining license tenders and mining rights, denial of license and transfer applications, mining law based administrative fines, disputes arising from state right and incentive practices and the cancellations thereof, disputes arising from license valuations and their collection, legal actions relating to administrative acts for SİT and similar preservation areas, and basin plans, disputes arising from conflicting mining and other investment license zones, disputes relating to raw material production permit zones in mining regions, disputes regarding administrative resolutions for privately owned lands prior to their expropriation, disputes arising from administrative proceedings for mining regions in context of land protection legislation.

Renewable Energy

Legal actions relating to hydroelectric, wind and solar energy licencing procedures before EMRA, and power line expropriations, tenders, zoning procedures before ministry and municipalities, disputes regarding administrative resolutions for the applications to or removal from the Renewable Energy Resources Support Mechanism (YEKDEM), disputes for cost allocation and calculation and collection of joint facility charges, legal actions against interim and production licenses of renewable or fossil fuel plants, and administrative resolutions for urgent expropriations and public interest in expropriations.

Forestry Law

Disputes arising from interim and final forestry permits, permit charge calculations, forest management plans and their amendments, revocation of permit zones, rehabilitation, and delivery of the permit zones in mining and energy projects.

Tax & Customs

Our tax practice includes advising our clients relating to all areas of tax, including customs, Value Added Tax (VAT), Special Consumption Tax and corporate income tax. We also provide tax litigation service. Our firm works closely with other tax specialists to provide our clients comprehensive and trusted advice.

Public Law

Our public law practice includes advising clients in all aspects of public law. We have extensive experience of representing clients from both private and public sector on public law issues.

Our practice areas also include administrative investigations in sectors such as competition, banking, telecommunications, tobacco, and disputes related to administrative fines and sectoral decisions.

Environment Legislation and Practices

In both planning and licencing stages of mining and renewable energy investments and at all stages of the EIA process; we provide legal services for cases arising from government decisions for not granting EIA specific format, termination of the EIA process (eg. opinions of the institution regarding the project’s nonconformity with legislation, failure of submission within the deadline of the EIA Report that has been returned due to the non-compliance with the specific format, termination of EIA process in Assessment Committee stage), EIA Negative decisions despite the final EIA report and decisions taken at the end of the EIA Process (EIA Not Required, EIA Positive and EIA Negative).

We also provide legal services for disputes related to interim activity certificate, disputes in the process of obtaining environmental permits and licenses, and cessation and administrative fines that may be applied within the scope of the audits and monitoring that the facilities put into operation during the activity period.