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Boden Law Offices
Levent Loft 1 Buyukdere Cad. No:201
D:27 34394 Levent / Istanbul
Turkey
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Boden Law > The Legal 500 Rankings
Turkey > Energy Tier 1
Boden Law assembles a robust energy practice, distinguished by its breadth of expertise and profile of matters. Recent highlights include project finance, M&A, and energy trade transactions, as well as fuel purchase deals, joint ventures, and litigation. The firm’s impressive client base commends the team’s ‘deep knowledge’ of the energy sector and its capacity to ‘handle complex legal issues.’ Founding partner Değer Boden is renowned for her ‘extensive experience and deep understanding’ of the energy sector and her skill in structuring complex transactions. Dila Küçükali plays a vital role in regulatory guidance, negotiations, and dispute resolution.Practice head(s):
Değer Boden
Other key lawyers:
Testimonials
‘What sets this firm apart is its ability to offer customized solutions that leverage in-depth industry knowledge and innovative strategies tailored to each client’s needs.’
‘The individuals I work with are exceptional for their deep expertise in the energy market, proactive problem-solving, and unwavering dedication to client success, setting them apart from competitors.’
‘Boden Law stands out in Turkey’s energy contracts field, thanks to Değer Boden’s expertise.’
‘The team is known for its deep knowledge of the energy sector, ability to handle complex legal issues including energy-focused arbitration, and client satisfaction.’
‘Değer Boden is a leading expert in energy contracts in Turkey, known for her extensive experience and deep understanding of the sector.’
‘The strength of Boden’s practice lies in its deep specialization and the ability to tailor legal solutions that address both the complex regulatory landscape and the dynamic needs of clients.’
‘The firm’s extensive industry expertise, especially in renewable energy, M&A, and international transactions, sets it apart from competitors.’
‘The individuals I work with in Boden Law possess a rare combination of legal acumen, industry insight, and a deeply client-focused approach.’
Key clients
Statkraft Enerji A.Ş
Mercedes Benz
Sanko Enerji A.Ş.
Gunvor
Aksa Enerji
Erciyas Holding
CCN Holding
Kolin
Steag
Axpo International
Axpo Turkey
Hitachi Energy Turkey Elektrik Sanayi Anonim Şirketi
Koç Entek Enerji Üretimi A.Ş.
Aalborg
Work highlights
- Advising prominent car manufacturer on their wind power plant project.
- Represented a client regarding its acquisition of a 54.4 MWm/50 MWe wind power plant.
- Represented a European energy trader client in two fuel purchase financing transactions and its security packages.
Turkey > Project finance/projects Tier 3
Boden Law has a broad practice that spans project finance, M&A, energy trade transactions, investment rounds, and joint ventures. Founding partner Değer Boden is highly regarded for her in-depth knowledge of the energy sector. The real estate-focused İnanç Akalın also plays a key role in the practice.Practice head(s):
Değer Boden; İnanç Akalın
Key clients
CCN Holding
Erciyas Holding
Sanko
Statkraft
Mercedes Benz
Steag/İsken
Aksa Enerji
Koç Entek
Tırsan
Gunvor SA
Aalborg CSP A/S
Hitachi Energy Turkey Elektrik Sanayi Anonim Şirketi (“Hitachi Energy”)
C2FO
Work highlights
- Represented Koç Entek regarding its acquisition of 54,4 MWm/50 MWe wind power plant with a total deal value of USD 53 million.
- Represented Gunvor in two separate fuel purchase financing transactions and their security packages with deal values of USD 80 million and 225 million respectively.
- Representing Hitachi Energy in its acquisition and purchase of new factory and sale of its old factory building.
Turkey > Commercial, corporate and M&A Tier 4
Boden Law‘s primary corporate and M&A focus remains on work within the energy sector. Here, under the guidance of founding partner Değer Boden, the firm draws upon deep sectoral knowledge ensuring it is frequently instructed on transactional, as well as contractual and regulatory work. Boden co-heads the team alongside İnanç Akalın.Practice head(s):
Değer Boden; İnanç Akalın
Key clients
Koç Entek Enerji Üretimi A.Ş.
Erciyas Holding
Statkraft Enerji A.Ş.
Kiliaro AB
Steag/İsken
Axpo Turkey
Hitachi Energy
Duckt OÜ
SMS Group Metalurji Servis Sanayi ve Ticaret Ltd. Şti.
RSB RG Pty. Ltd
Sanko Enerji Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş.
Axpo International SA and Axpo Turkey Enerji A.Ş.
Talesun Solar Enerji A.Ş. (Talesun Turkey)
Global Catering
Work highlights
- Advised Koç Entek, a Turkish conglomerate, on its acquisition of 54,4 MWm/50 MWe wind power plant and its refinancing with a deal value of $53m.
- Represented Gunvor in two separate fuel purchase financing transactions and their security packages with deal values $80m and $225m respectively.
- Representing Hitachi Energy in its acquisition and purchase of new factory and sale of its old factory building.
Boden Law > Firm Profile
The firm: Boden Law is a top tier, full-service law firm based in Istanbul which represents and provides legal advice to clients in various sectors with a particular focus on energy, technology, natural resources, real estate and infrastructure. With the understanding of complex dependencies between and within these sectors, the firm offers a unique service. Boden Law differentiates itself with its industry specific expertise and its solution-oriented approach which has made it the go-to law firm for niche and complex legal issues. Boden Law has established itself as a future-oriented firm in the legal market thanks to its impressive capacity to identify the future’s issues today and to tackle these issues head-on. The firm is dedicated into providing high-quality legal services with the strength it gets from the comprehensive know-how accumulated in over a decade.
Boden Law provides advice and representation particularly with respect to cross-border transactions (relating to Turkish and non-Turkish targets), project development and finance transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, privatizations, concessions, public service contracts, alliances, and dispute resolution with special emphasis on arbitration.
Given the complexity of energy matters and the amounts at stake, energy companies and financial institutions seek a legal team that has a proven track record. Boden Law has a team of specialist lawyers with a high degree of expertise in Turkish energy law including energy markets’ regulations. Our team is pre-eminent in successfully representing energy companies/financial institutions in their electricity and gas related projects including but not limited to project finance, EPC and O&M contracts, M&A and energy trade transactions including tolling agreements, derivative transactions and physical energy trade transactions as well as energy disputes (both arbitration and litigation).
The firm is highly regarded with respect to energy sale contracts and has unparalleled experience in commodity trade and EFET agreements (advised EFET in adapting its master electricity and gas trade agreements into Turkish law). The firm is also highly regarded for its expertise in solar and wind power plant projects.
Boden Law delivers various trainings and workshops with regard to specific energy related issues in the market. In energy projects, you need a team that really understands the international and local energy industry. Boden Law trains our lawyers to ensure that we are fully knowledgeable of local and international markets and trends in all the relevant energy markets. Every year, our lawyers are trained 3 months at EFET, Brussels to better understand European energy markets. We are proud to have the most experienced and well-recognized energy practice in Turkey.
Boden Law adheres to the development of the Turkish energy, technology and real estate market. Boden Law is also dedicated to increase the knowledge in the society. With this aim, Boden Law established Boden Academy in 2014 as a platform where diverse, inaugurating and creative legal, political and strategical topics are discussed. We are embodying within our academy highly reputable international experts and academicians (http://boden-law.com/boden-academy/).
Boden Law also has extensive experience in Turkish energy, real estate and infrastructure industries where the concession models have been mostly used. Our team has specific experience in highway, port and hospital projects and various Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects both in the transactional side and the dispute resolution side.
Senior Partner (Head of Real Estate and Infrastructure Group) İnanç Akalın has significant experience in real estate law, zoning law and highway, port and hospital projects and various PPP projects. His experience includes EPC agreements, FIDIC agreements, construction agreements, lease agreements, administrative applications, and complex real estate transactions. He took part in many port projects such as APMT container port in Aliağa, DP World Yarımca container port, sale of Kumport. His expertise includes port operation agreements. He also took an active part in negotiations with governmental authorities.
Boden Law also advises clients on their technological investments with a special emphasis on fintech, AI, data automation and biotech. The firm provides legal services to technology companies, as well as corporate clients investing in technology, contracts, merger and acquisitions projects, international growth, as well as on compliance matters with an emphasis on e-commerce, product liability, data protection and cyber-security while maintaining a commercial mindset and tech-savvy approach. Boden Law has a unique position in this area as we combine our understanding of global economic landscape and implications of technological advancements with our experience in handling complex international projects.
In addition to its expertise in energy, infrastructure, real estate, technology and mining, Boden also provides day-to-day legal services to its clients including but not limited to corporate law, employment law, contracts law issues. Boden advises many international and national clients which lack in-house law departments as if their in-house counsel in daily legal problems.
Areas of practice
Banking and finance, distressed financing: Boden Law advises on complex financial transactions including project and infrastructure finance, acquisition finance, asset finance, real estate finance, bilateral and syndicated lending, Islamic finance, derivatives and structured finance and other types of lending. Boden Law represents creditors, equity investors and other related parties in corporate reorganizations, distressed situations, bankruptcy cases, and their related financing. Assignments include out-of-court restructurings as well as bankruptcy litigation. The firm also advises prospective purchasers and investors in various cross-border restructuring, insolvency, distressed asset acquisitions and investments and distressed debt transactions.
Corporate and commercial legal advisory: Boden Law provides day-to-day counseling, re-organizations and legal services on corporate and commercial law matters. Boden Law advises foreign clients in the establishment of their direct investment vehicles including selection of the entity and the establishment of their businesses. The firm also advises to deep-tech technology companies for their corporate planning of investment rounds as well as expansion plans.
Dispute resolution and arbitration: Boden Law includes a team of expert litigators specialized in key practice areas including contractual disputes, corporate litigation, administrative litigation, creditors’ rights and bankruptcies. Boden Law also represents its clients in investment and commercial arbitration, mediation and enforcement of foreign arbitration awards in Turkey. The team consists of partners with international experience in arbitration matters.
Energy advisory: Boden Law provides specific expertise in energy and natural resources (including metals and mining). As being one of its major practice areas, Boden Law represents its clients under energy mergers and acquisitions, commodity trading, energy and infrastructure projects, energy regulatory and compliance advice, renewable energy and energy dispute resolution. With its expansion to technology sector, Boden Law provides insightful legal advice to energy companies for their digital transformation and investments in new technologies including block chain, smart contracts and Internet of Things (IoT).
Mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and alliances: Boden Law has extensive experience in the full range of merger and acquisition transactions including public or private company mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, mergers and de-mergers. The transactions range from mergers and acquisitions including asset and stock acquisitions, to joint venture or strategic partnership transactions.
Project development and finance: Boden Law specializes in project development and finance specifically in the energy, construction, chemicals, metals and mining and infrastructure sectors. Boden Law provides a full range of leading edge contentious and non-contentious regulatory, commercial and transactional advice under this area.
Real estate: Boden Law has extensive experience in real estate law and zoning law. Boden Law has significant experience in major infrastructure and superstructure projects such as highway, port and hospital projects.
Technology and innovation: Boden Law provides legal services on compliance matters, technology contracts, complex merger and acquisitions projects, international growth, data protection and cyber-security while maintaining a commercial mindset and tech-savvy approach.
Boden Academy: With the aim of creating a bridge between theoretical knowledge and its practical application, Boden Law established Boden Academy in February 2014. Boden Academy aims to provide expert advice on law and policy in the fields of various areas and to build a bridge between different sectors and law with an inter-disciplinary approach. It is a unique discussion forum and a ‘think tank’ in which contemporary and innovative legal issues affecting the global and local markets are discussed. With the valuable contributions of prominent sector practitioners and scholars, Boden Academy organizes conferences, seminars, training, workshops and publishes reports and periodicals.
Main Contacts
| Department | Name | Telephone | |
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| Commodity Trading | Değer Boden | [email protected] | |
| Construction | İnanç Akalın | [email protected] | |
| Dispute Resolution and Arbitration | Değer Boden and Sinem Mermer | [email protected] | |
| Energy and infrastructure projects | Değer Boden | [email protected] | |
| Energy regulatory and compliance advice | Değer Boden | [email protected] | |
| Energy sector training/reports | Değer Boden | [email protected] | |
| Infrastructure | İnanç Akalın | [email protected] | |
| M&A, joint ventures and alliances | Değer Boden and Sinem Mermer | [email protected] | |
| Project development and finance | Değer Boden | [email protected] | |
| Real estate | İnanç Akalın | [email protected] | |
| Renewable energy | Değer Boden | [email protected] | |
| Banking & Finance, Distressed Financing | İnanç Akalın | [email protected] | |
| Technology & Innovation | Sinem Mermer | [email protected] |
Lawyer Profiles
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İnanç Akalın | İnanç Akalın is a senior partner in Boden Law. He has broad… | View Profile |
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Değer Boden | Değer is the founding partner of the Boden Law. She has significant… | View Profile |
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TESTIMONIAL: “Boden Law’s managing partner Değer Boden has a unique expertise proves to be invaluable. She gives personal attention to her clients and directs her team in this regard. Değer Boden and her team’s first-class work and professionalism make this firm stand out from the other firms. Değer Boden personally attended and guided her team in the key meetings and negotiations. Her team provided unique solutions to the problems during our projects and works with them.”
TESTIMONIAL: “The lawyers at Boden Law are experts in all types of energy transactions. They understand the sector and it helps us in structuring the deals.”
TESTIMONIAL: “They are very responsive and their service level is superb.”
Diversity
Diversity:
As a law firm, we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to providing the best possible service to our clients and to promoting justice in our society. That is why Boden Law is committed to fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion within our firm and in the legal profession as a whole. Boden Law is committed to breaking down the barriers and creating a more inclusive environment for people of all races, genders, sexual orientations, religions, and backgrounds. To achieve this goal, we have implemented several initiatives as listed below. As Boden Law, we are dedicated not only to our clients but also to our community. Our firm believes that lawyers have a duty to devote time to serve their society in positive ways. In our office, we have a diversity and inclusion committee (“Diversity Committee”) of 3 people, of which two are partners and one is support team. With this committee, we aim to set an example for both our office and other law firms in the sector in every sense of diversity and to touch the lives of ourselves, our team and our clients.
During job interviews and employment, Boden Law does not discriminate against any applicant or teammate based on ethnicity, religion, language, gender or race. Boden Law’s recruitment process is solely based on the applicants’ experience and abilities. With the creation of a workspace where all are treated equally, be it an attorney, legal intern or support team, Boden Law differentiates itself from others with its approach. The firm is dedicated in sustaining its workplace practices while providing all our employees equal rights, opportunities, and salaries solely based on seniority, which is well ahead of the Turkish legal sector.
Despite progress in recent years, women continue to be underrepresented in the legal profession, especially in senior positions. Promoting the representation of women in the legal profession is not only a matter of fairness and equity, but it also leads to better outcomes for clients and society as a whole. Aside from having a woman managing and founding partner, women participation at partner’s level is 66%. The ratio of women to men in the Firm overall is at 77%. Boden Law is dedicated in contributing to the women representation in the legal market and has no-tolerance policy for discrimination based on gender within the firm. Our partners are also members of ArbirtalWomen, an organization promoting female practitioners in international dispute resolution that supports students with vis-moot events, promotes and support campaigns on gender equality. In 2022, Boden Law sponsored an ArbitralWomen conference in Istanbul. Boden Law also take an active role in the society for environmental protection and human rights. Equality and non-discrimination are also a human right and our partners constantly lecture on these topics and contribute to development of a sustainable environment.
Pro bono:
As Boden Law, we are dedicated not only to our clients but also to our community. The Firm believes that lawyers have a duty to devote time to serve their society in positive ways. The organizations that the Firm gives pro-bono advice are as follows:
My Climate Turkey
Recently, Boden Law advised pro-bono My Climate Turkey, Turkey partner of My Climate, a global climate protection foundation, in their conversion to and merge with a non-profit organization namely “Carbon Footprint and Sustainability Association” (Ayakizi ve Sürdürebilirlik Derneği).
Carbon Footprint and Sustainability Association
Boden Law provides regular legal advice to Carbon Footprint and Sustainability Association.
Troya Çevre Derneği
Boden Law is also providing pro-bono legal advice to Troya Çevre Derneği in their establishment process of an energy cooperative which would generate electricity from solar.
Climate Change
As Boden Law, we are aware of climate change threat and its severity, which is why we aim to play an important role in contribution to a sustainable environment. This year, we also offset our carbon footprint, and we are committed to continually reduce our carbon emissions. Boden Law has a carbon footprint offsetting certificate from My Climate.
CSR:
As Boden Law, we are dedicated not only to our clients but also to our community. Our firm believes that lawyers have a duty to devote time to serve their society in positive ways. As Boden Law, we are aware of climate change threat and its severity, which is why we aim to play an important role in contribution to a sustainable environment. Each year, we also offset our carbon footprint, and we are committed to continually reduce our carbon emissions. Boden Law has a carbon footprint offsetting certificate from My Climate.
To raise awareness to society, Boden Academy organizes conferences, seminars, trainings, workshops and publishes reports and periodicals. In March 2020, Boden Law has kicked off the webinar series called ‘Tuesday Talks’ under the auspices of Boden Academy where the counsels and selected experts provide insights and clarifications on the most challenging issues arising from COVID-19 global outbreak.
International Capabilities
Boden Law’s overseas practice is not restricted to any geographical borders and its expertise in working under various sets of laws is praised by the clients. Boden Law is experienced in providing legal assistance for Clients’ outbound investment projects in Africa, Europe and Asia. The firm is also experienced in representing clients in international arbitration matters, together with local and international law firms if need be. The attorneys as well as partners attend to international conferences and seminars as speakers, some of which are East Mediterranean 7th Turkey Energy Summit, Kluwer and International Conference on Energy Security and Geopolitics in the Eastern Mediterranean, Conference on Energy Arbitration and Dispute Resolution in the Middle East and Africa took place at London.