Cetinel Law Firm

As Cetinel, we proudly lead in construction. We provide legal consulting services to local and international companies with a specific focus to construction law and disputes along with the respective business law matters. As a result of our specialization and focus on construction and business law issues, we fully understand and appreciate the requirements and demands of its clients and therefore offer creative, result-oriented and high-quality legal solutions. Our client-orientation dictates that every client issue receives all due attention and care whether it is part of a continuing client relationship or a single transaction. We work in concert with each client to develop comprehensive strategies that addresses the respective client’s business goals.

Construction Law

Our experience is unmatched in terms of our understanding of the construction sector. We provide our clients with our experience is unmatched in terms of our understanding of the construction sector. We provide our clients with ultimate capabilities of a one-stop shop service. We are proud to have in-house capacity to address all matters related to construction sector at legal, technical and strategical levels.
Our practice covers all phases of construction projects: we start at pre-tender phase with risk assessment on countries, we further provide tender analysis and risk identification. We structure the risk allocation at contract signature, both for upstream and downstream levels. We also have a long track record in negotiating large size construction, concession, oil and gas, process plant installation, operation and maintenance as well as specialized mechanical, engineering subcontracts.

We offer regular contract management services both for upstream level for main contractors and project companies and for downstream level towards subcontractors.

We worked and are continuously working with FIDIC (Redbook, Silverbook, Yellowbook and Greenbook, from 1987 series to 2017 edition), ICE, NEC type of contracts, public procurement contracts PPP contractual structures, alliance type of contracts and procurement structures.

As part of the construction law expertise, our office services to its clients for both legal consultancy, training and litigation; in the fields of labor law, occupational health and safety law, social security law. Our aim is to ensure that the entire process is carried out in accordance with the legal regulations from the moment the labour relationship begins and that any disputes arised or may arise are resolved, by working in constant communication with clients.

Taking into account the sensitivity of the rules of labor law in Turkey, our team, which has full knowledge of all laws and complex structures in this field, provides consultancy activities for regulation of relations with the employees of the employer, finding solutions to legal issues and many more regarding the issues, by adopting the principle of protecting the client’s interests and evaluating the specific needs of the client in accordance with each concrete. Besides; it represents its clients in the best possible way in cases of reemployment, work accidents, employee receivables, compensation and other related lawsuits.

Dispute Avoidance and Dispute Boards

Cetinel is one of the first firms with built in capacity and an extensive track record in pre-arbitral processes in construction projects.

We firmly believe the dispute board process ensures the successful completion of construction projects and we are a long-lasting member of Dispute Resolution Board Foundation, in line with our practice before dispute boards.

We regularly advise clients in construction sector in the DB/DAB/DAAB proceedings prior to the resort to arbitration providing strategic approaches in line with potential arbitration procedure.

We are proud to have served as counsel, expert and board member in various dispute board processes in all types and sizes of projects all around the world. We are working regularly with dispute board processes established under FIDIC type of contracts as well as NEC, ad-hoc contracts with separate Dispute Board rules, i.e. ICC Dispute Board Rules, CiARB Dispute Board Rules and ad-hoc dispute board rules.

Dispute Resolution

We have extensive experience in arbitral proceedings related to major construction and investment disputes before prominent arbitral institutions worldwide and also at domestic level.

Our arbitration experience not only provides our clients with a top-tier law firm with a solid background, but also with unparalleled capacity stemming from our site experience which allows us to anticipate issues and take precautionary measures before disputes arise.

We also represent clients in enforcement and/or annulment proceedings before Turkish courts as our litigation experience includes representation of a wide range of parties in a selection of commercial and civil litigation.

We act as a one-stop shop for all pre-arbitral, arbitral and post-arbitral proceedings. We act on behalf of claimants and defendants for the purposes of liquidation of collateral and collection of commercial receivables.

Corporate Law and Joint Ventures

Our experience and knowledge across a broad spectrum of business law, includes representation of our clients in complex commercial transactions including capital markets transactions, bankruptcy, bank lending and other private finance, drafting, managing and negotiating contracts, administrative procedures, permits and authorizations.

We also provide general corporate advice to our clients as part of our understanding to put priority in our clients’ needs.
Our corporate and commercial law practice also specializes on providing our clients with general legal advice relating to the recently amended laws and regulations of Turkey relating to Commercial Law, Civil Law and Law of Obligations.

All different sorts of joint venture structures including alliance agreements, consortium, ordinary partnership type joint ventures are within our area of expertise diversified by the different size and type of projects we advise our clients both at execution, dispute prevention and dispute resolution stages.