Selvi Ertekin Attorney Partnership

Project finance/projects

Partner

Barış Ertekin has an in-depth knowledge in energy and infrastructure finance. His extensive experience involves projects for the development, financing and privatization of power and infrastructure projects covering several models available under Turkish law, even including nuclear power plant projects. He has experience on privatization models available in Turkey, including the build-operate, build-operate-transfer, transfer-of-operational-rights models and new licensing regimes, together with combinations of these models.

Before founding Ertekin, Barış worked as a partner in a top-ranking Turkish law firm and, prior to that, in the legal department of a multinational bank. He has worked in most of the outstanding projects in Turkey including Sinop Nuclear Power Plant Project which will be constructed and operated on the basis of host government agreement model and Boyabat Power Plant Project (biggest private dam in Turkey). Barış was ranked as a leading lawyer by IFLR 1000 and recommended by Legal 500 in the areas of Project and Project Finance. Lastly, he took a role as the local counsel of Turkish and international banks who participated in the financing of Kalyon Karapınar YEKA-1 solar power plant project.

Turkish, English

Istanbul Bar Association

LLB, Istanbul University, Faculty of Law