Bio

Sansal Erbacioglu is heading the tax and fiscal services practice at Paksoy. He advises clients on tax and fiscal aspects of all forms of foreign investments, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, partnerships, equity subscriptions, banking and finance, and capital markets transactions. Mr Erbacıoğlu works with clients on their multi-jurisdictional investments to establish tax-efficient shareholding, financing, and foreign trade structures. He advises clients on a wide variety of taxation matters, including income, investment, financing and real estate taxes, with an emphasis on corporate tax, withholding taxes, banking and insurance transaction tax, value-added tax, resource utilisation support fund levy, and stamp duty. His expertise also covers consultancy on industry-specific taxation matters and special tax regimes for EPCs, PPPs, construction, energy, and aviation, aerospace and defence industries. He actively takes part in advising clients on remedy plans for loss-making entities and optimal debt-equity combinations in accordance with commercial needs and the capital adequacy ratios set forth in Turkish regulations. Mr Erbacıoğlu also provides consultancy services to numerous lenders/bondholders and entrepreneurs in the refinancing of debt facilities and security restructurings and he works with the litigation team on legal disputes arising from tax and fiscal matters. In addition, he performs tax and financial due diligence, and reviews and assesses financial transactions from a compliance perspective. Before joining Paksoy, he worked for eight years in the international tax structuring practice in one of the Big Four and is licensed as a certified public accountant in Türkiye.