ONGUR & PARTNERS International Law Firm’s expert energy practitioners provide top-quality legal services in Turkey to assist domestic and international corporate clients in meeting their complex, technical, and sector-specific obligations under Turkish oil and gas law. Our highly skilled oil and gas attorneys combine their profound, in-depth experience with sharp sectoral insight to deliver premium legal engineering relating to energy regulation, infrastructure project development, EPC construction contracts, energy exploration, asset operation, project financing, and global marketing.
Because the supreme regulatory bodies—including the Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK) and the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources—are strictly based in the nation’s capital, our central ankara law office manages high-velocity energy licensing, regulatory clearances, and official grid connection permits with capital-level speed. Simultaneously, our prominent istanbul law office networks focus heavily on international energy trade financing, corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&A) of power plants, and high-value joint venture agreements.
Whether your energy conglomerate requires an elite corporate istanbul lawyer to structure cross-border supply and purchase agreements, or a seasoned capital-level ankara lawyer to challenge administrative pecuniary penalties before administrative courts, our dual-hub practice delivers absolute operational security. Our dedicated team of english speaking lawyers stands fully prepared to guide your energy investments across our premier law firm in istanbul and leading ankara law firm platforms.
Our Comprehensive Energy Law Portfolio Includes:
• Licensing & Regulatory Clearances: Preparing extensive documentation, structuring compliance pipelines, and obtaining official permits from Turkish authorities (EPDK) necessary to explore, excavate, and operate energy resources in Turkey.
• Power Plant Infrastructure: Strategic advising on the legal establishment, corporate acquisition, and formal asset transfer of localized power stations, wind farms, solar grids, and hydro-plants in Turkey.
• Risk & Environmental Compliance Auditing: Conducting deep legal assessments on cross-border regulatory risks regarding energy projects and providing strict compliance checks on Environmental Impact Assessment (ÇED) reports in accordance with relevant Turkish statutes.
• Energy Trade Transactions: Advising on physical and derivative energy trade transactions in Turkey, alongside expert drafting of international supply, take-or-pay off-take agreements, and purchase contracts.
• Administrative Litigation & Energy Arbitration: Representing global entities before Turkish administrative courts in challenges to environmental penalties or administrative sanctions. Furthermore, our trial practitioners deliver fierce representation across energy license disputes before international commercial arbitration tribunals (such as ICC, ICSID, or LCIA).
To mitigate your operational compliance risks, secure strategic EPDK counsel, or protect your energy asset portfolios in Turkey, please contact our managing partners directly via our central International Law Firm in Turkey portal.

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