About us

Verta Financial Consulting and Auditing Inc. provides a wide range of consulting services such as tax litigation and tax disputes, transfer pricing and thin capitalization, monetary damage calculation, and veil piercing analysis to commercial clients.

Verta is established by Dr. Namık Kemal Uyanık in 2013. He earned an MA in Economics from Western Michigan University and holds a Ph.D. degree in Financial Law from Hacettepe University. He has 25 years of tax audit/examination and management experience in the Ministry of Finance and public sector and has more than 8 years of private sector and academic experience. He served as Senior Finance Inspector at the Ministry of Finance, Head of the Departments at the Revenue Administration for nearly 7 years, member and deputy president of the Turkish Accounting Standards Board, and Secretary-General of the Turkish Taxation Council. While he was the Head of the Department of Tax Procedure Act, he served as the Secretary of the Central Compromise Settlement Commission of the Revenue Administration. He used to be the Turkish Delegate to the OECD Working Party 6 (Transfer Pricing) and to the Working Group of Bribery for the years 2000-2010.

Dr. Uyanık focuses his consultancy practices extensively on tax litigation, and transfer pricing and thin capitalization matters, including assessing strategies under the tax audit phase, compromise negotiations, and handling cases in tax courts and appeals. In recent years, he has been involved in several large-scale tax litigations and in many tax audits of specific domestic or international issues including transfer pricing in particular, and has provided consultancy in the important taxpayer victory cases in Turkey. He is the author of 5 books and 3 book chapters and more than 40 articles on taxation, tax litigation, transfer pricing and thin capitalization, monetary damage calculation and veil piercing in business litigations. He participated as a keynote speaker at many national and international symposiums and seminars covering a wide range of topics such as International Symposium on Comparative Transfer Pricing Systems of Some Selected Countries, Transfer Pricing Regulations Seminar of Court of Cassation, Court Expert System in Turkey and Damage Calculation, How to Fight Against Corruption According to the OECD Convention, and Trademark Valuation and Taxation organized by the Ministry of Finance, Danıştay, TÜSİAD, İTO, PWC, E&Y, Chamber of CPAs of different cities and Universities. He currently teaches Turkish Commercial Law at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of Middle East Technical University.