EQUITAS director Metehan C. Sonbahar has been recognised again as a Future Leader in International Arbitration 2022 by Who’s Who Legal and Global Arbitration Review.
For further details please visit WWL Future Leaders 2022 website.
EQUITAS director Metehan C. Sonbahar has been recognised again as a Future Leader in International Arbitration 2022 by Who’s Who Legal and Global Arbitration Review.
For further details please visit WWL Future Leaders 2022 website.
The Covid-19 pandemic continues to cause widespread global disruption. In terms of the construction industry, it affects both material and labour, productivity, delivery times, and by doing so challenges companies’ liquidity and business models. Contractors worldwide, look for different means for compensation from employers of additional costs and losses associated with the pandemic. The federation…
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) published its 2022 Construction Contracts and Law Report. This report can be read as an update to the NBS 2018 National Construction Contracts and Law Report which was carried out by the NBS between 2012 and 2018. The report is based on the RIBA’s Construction Contracts and Law…
On the 29th of April 2020 EQUITAS Consulting and CMS Law presented a webinar with regards the effects of COVID-19 on construction contracts governed under Turkish law. The online seminar included discussions in relation to the relevant provisions under Turkish law, the clauses of the FIDIC 1999 and 2017 form of contracts and the measures…
The ICC has published its 2018 dispute resolution statistics. Out of 842 new arbitration cases registered in 2018 224 involved disputes from the construction and engineering industry. This is a new record for the industry. Turkey remains the most represented nationality within Central and Eastern Europe with 62 parties. Another interesting development is that in…
EQUITAS director Metehan C. Sonbahar has been appointed to act as a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitratior’s (CIArb) European Branch Committee. CIArb is an international centre for the practice and profession of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) with 16,000 members from 149 countries and is supported by an international network of 41 branches. CIArb…
The Convention of Mediation On 07 August 2019 the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation was signed by the members of 46 countries at an official signing ceremony in Singapore including, Turkey, Qatar, the United states, China [1]. A full list of signatories is at the end of this post. The…