Energy and Infrastructure

Energy and infrastructure projects inherently demand specialized and robust legal expertise for successful execution, given their characteristic features: substantially high transaction volumes, intricate structural complexity, adherence to highly specific regulatory frameworks, and the frequent involvement of public legal entities as key stakeholders. In our country, factors such as privatizations in the electricity market, regulatory arrangements, and the increase in investments concerning renewable energy in the energy sector, and public-supported investments along with large-volume projects carried out under public-private partnership and build-operate-transfer models in the infrastructure sector, have over time increased the need for legal advisors experienced in this field.

Çetinkaya + Yücesan provides legal support to its domestic and international clients in the energy sector, particularly in matters such as structuring the legal framework for renewable energy projects, especially those concerning electricity generation from wind and solar energy, acquisition of real properties which will form the project site or the establishment of real rights over such properties, drafting, negotiating, and finalizing all types of construction and other agreements for projects, notably EPC contracts, selection and negotiation of FIDIC contracts suitable for the client’s needs, negotiations with public institutions and organizations, license applications and the finalization of such applications. In the infrastructure sector, C+Y is actively involved in operation right agreements for Türkiye’s prominent ports, amendments to these agreements, and the integration of new investments into the companies that have acquired the operating rights. The firm provides qualified legal services to private sector stakeholders in projects involving public-private collaborations, with a focus on privatization legislation.