About

Now the most senior lawyer of wind power specialist Polat Enerji, Melis Alkan Bölükbaşı began working at the prestigious Aksu & Savaş & Çalışkan Law Office following her graduation from Galatasaray University, building up a wealth of experience in the project finance and banking areas over the course of her seven-year career there from 2007 onwards. In 2014, Alkan Bölükbaşı moved to Polat Enerji, and established herself within the company quickly. Indeed, she mentions ‘working directly with the top management of the company’ there as a particular career highlight, as it allowed her to develop ‘a clearer understanding of decision making mechanisms within a company’. She mentions that another positive element of her in-house role when compared to external work is ‘having financial and accounting points of view’ to draw from. This, she explains, prompted her to start to ‘consider agreements and legal documents not only from a legal point of view but also from financial and accounting points of view’, allowing him to tailor legal advice to the best business needs of the company. Alkan Bölükbaşı has also worked on a number of high-profile projects during the course of her time with Polat Enerji: ‘In particular, I recall the financing (Commercial Facility and ECA) of the development and construction of the 100MW Soma 3 Power Plant in 2014, and the preparation and participation to the 1000 MW Wind YEKA Tender from March to August this year’.