Bosca Law

BOSCA Law was founded in Ankara in 2002 by Süleyman BOŞÇA. Today BOSCA Law is one of the most prestigious and experienced full-service law offices in Turkey, practicing mainly in Ankara and İstanbul.

We have extensive experience in providing legal services to many major international and local clientele. We also have expertise in energy, M&A, commercial and corporate, banking and finance, project finance, competition, data protection, intellectual property, privatization, litigation, and arbitration. We have an experienced legal team to provide legal services in all phases of energy investments, including renewable energy, and have extensive knowledge of energy regulations in Turkey. We also represent many leading companies in a variety of sectors. Due to this, our experts represent a wide range of local and international clients.

We are aware that legal services are dependent upon the business itself. With that rationale, we aim to provide legal assistance to the companies in their projects/disputes and help them finish their projects on time. Our main principle is to meet the needs of each client by working with them exclusively and carrying out legal work promptly. This can only be achieved by providing a full range of services that correspond to various practice areas of law.

Our primary commitment is to deliver legal expertise and resources to our clients. We operate using an extensive network of lawyers to provide value-added services. We also combine legal proficiency and experience to provide legal services with the latest technology to achieve the best results for our clients.

Building strong and substantial client relationships were and still remains as the most essential point for BOSCA Law’s business strategy and future development. Our core objective is to work in partnership with clients to help them meet their business objectives, whenever and wherever they need.

Areas of practice
Energy law: We devote our energy to our clients. Our team’s extensive knowledge and experience in the energy law and energy sector enable us to provide our clients with comprehensive legal assistance. Furthermore, our assessments and analysis about the legal risks that may be encountered by corporations investing in the power industry, as well as the banks and financial institutions financing power projects, enable our clients to cope with such risks easily.

We have a legal team specializing in the following sectors; electricity, natural gas, oil and LPG markets, renewables and mining-related regulatory advisory, M&A, project development, construction and installation, environmental requirements, and dispute resolution.

Our office provides legal consulting services to national and international power corporations since its inception. The scope of our legal services comprises following up licensing proceedings, preparing preliminary legal examinations and due diligence reports, drawing up and negotiating project finance agreements in power investments, preparing shareholders agreements, share purchase agreements and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) agreements, Energy Performance Contracts and interpreting existing agreements, developing offtake agreements, preparing applications to Competition Authority, carrying out administrative procedures, conducting expropriation actions and settlement of disputes.

Data protection: We offer clients comprehensive compliance plans composed of technical, legal and administrative measures as well as training programs that aim to bring clients’ businesses in line with the requirements of Law No. 6698 and other legislation such as regulations and notices. Our team provides this through its deep knowledge of personal data protection law as well as its partnerships with IT companies with specific technical expertise in the field. This combination of legal and technical expertise means our clients receive all-inclusive services regarding compliance with data protection requirements.

Commercial, corporate and M&A: We are aware of the rapidly changing and developing nature of commercial life and provide the necessary legal information and support to our clients. The legal services we provide to our customers in the commercial and corporate law, which regulates commercial activities at every stage of production, trade and consumption, include the preparation and amendment of the company’s main contracts, carrying out the trade registry procedures, negotiation agreements preparing and drawing the general assembly procedures required by companies.

We are also experienced in all actions and transactions at all stages of M&A, ranging from preliminary legal examinations and due diligence to bidding, share purchase agreements closures. We provide legal consulting services to our clients in M&A, comprising preparation of legal examination and due diligence reports, issuing and negotiating share purchase agreements, conducting Competition Authority proceedings and closure transactions.

Project financing: We exercise our experience in various fields of law, to manage such complexity and furnish an effective consulting service to our clients. Our office provides additional legal services, pertaining to all aspects of financing and capital markets. As many power, construction and other infrastructure projects to which we provide legal services, require finance, legal assistance of our office remains in place, also at the stage of project financing. Our attorneys-at-law develop, issue and negotiate financial agreements, underlying project financing.

Banking and finance: Our office furnishes legal consulting services and supports banks and other financial institutions concerning general banking issues. Legal consulting services provided to clients we represent in banking and financial matters, banks and other financial institutions, comprise preparation and negotiation of agreements relating to the provision of bridging loans, general credit agreements and financial leasing agreements, individual and corporate banking, and international credit transactions, deposits, special facilities, letter of credits, payment against receipt, depositing, preservation and leasing, Islamic finance as well as securities and facilities.

Competition: We represent our clients in cartel or abuse of dominance investigations, representing our clients in antitrust disputes before Turkish courts, compliance and sanctions and advising on any competition law related matter.

Privatization: Our office provides legal consulting services to our clients, with respect to all stages of the privatization process, working principles of privatization administration, preliminary stages of bidding, application for approval of the Competition Authority.

Dispute resolution and arbitration: Our office provides legal assistance both at courts and international arbitration tribunals, for resolution of administrative and commercial disputes of national and international corporations especially in the energy sector. We provide both petitioners and respondents with legal services pertaining to preparation of petitions, attending hearings and exercising legal remedies. Our office further serves assistance with respect to obtaining injunctive relief orders and collection of receivables, through enforcement proceedings and amicable settlements that are achieved by our clients.

Public tenders and contracts: We have extensive experience in public procurements and contracts. The legal consulting services we provide to our clients, with regard to public procurement proceedings, comprise matters such as examination of tender specifications and contracts, filing of complaints and disputes pertaining to the tenders, exercising legal remedies against the decision of the Public Procurement Board and procurement law.

Sports law: We provide legal services to our clients in particular with respect to preparation and negotiation of agreements between footballers and clubs, receivables, discipline proceedings, fines and defending footballers’ rights arising from instructions in case they drop out of the squad.

Tax law: We are aware that every transaction has tax implications and provide our clients tax advisory and tax litigation services.

Intellectual property: We provide legal services in violation of intellectual and industrial property rights, including all aspects of trademark, patent, copyright, industrial designs, trade names, domain names, design and know-how before the Turkish Courts.