Competition Law Firm of the Year Turkey

Firm Profile

ELIG aims at providing its clients with high-quality legal service in an efficient and business-minded manner. All members of the ELIG team are very fluent in English. ELIG represents corporations, business associations, investment banks, partnerships and individuals in a wide variety of competition law matters. The firm also collaborates with many international law firms on Turkish competition law matters. In addition to an unparalleled experience in merger control issues, ELIG has a vast experience in defending companies before the Competition Board in all phases of an antitrust investigation. We have in-depth knowledge of representing defendants and complainants in complex antitrust investigations concerning all forms of abuse of dominant position allegations and all other forms of restrictive horizontal and vertical arrangements, including price-fixing, retail price maintenance, refusal to supply, territorial restrictions and concerted practice allegations. Furthermore, in addition to a significant antitrust litigation expertise, our firm has considerable expertise in administrative law, and is therefore well equipped to represent clients before the High State Council, both on the merits of a case, and for injunctive relief. ELIG also advises clients on a day-to-day basis concerning business transactions that almost always contain antitrust law issues, including distributorship, licensing, franchising, and toll manufacturing. So far in 2011, ELIG was involved in more than 27 clearances of merger notifications, more than 13 defence projects in investigations, and over 6 appeals at the High State Council; together with approximately 22 antitrust education seminars provided to the employees of clients.

Areas of Expertise

• Competition Law • Mergers & Acquisitions • Employment Law • General Corporate/Contracts • Intellectual Property • Litigation • Internet Law • White Collar Irregularities

Notable Legal Work

ELIG has represented Mercedes Benz Türk A.Ş in an investigation before the Turkish Competition Authority; assisted Apple Inc. with responding to the Turkish Competition Authority’s inquiries; filed a merger notification with and approved by the Competition Board with respect to the acquisition of Unison Engine Components Inc. and Unison Engine Components Ltd. by General Electronic Co.

Gonenc Gurkaynak •• Ç ••

Gönenç Gürkaynak is a partner in charge of competition law matters at ELIG in Istanbul, Turkey.

Mr Gürkaynak graduated from

Ankara University, Faculty of Law in 1997, and was called to the Istanbul Bar in 1998. He obtained his LLM degree from Harvard Law School, also studying as a research assistant in antitrust law during 2000-01. He then qualified in New York, practised at an international law firm in New York until the end of 2002. In the years he worked in Brussels on EC competition law matters he also became a solicitor of the Law Society of England and Wales (currently non-practising). Mr. Gürkaynak is the head of the competition and regulatory practice of ELIG in Istanbul since 2004.

Contact

Gönenç Gürkaynak

Gönenç Gürkaynak ELIG, Attorneys-at-Law

Tel: +90 212 327 17 24 Fax: +90 212 327 17 25

Email: gonenc.gurkaynak@elig.com Website: www.elig.com

Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards 2011

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