One of our team's
core areas of expertise is competition law. We provide academically grounded,
business-minded and top-quality advice in all areas of competition law.
Our team has
unparalleled knowledge and experience in conducting competition compliance
programs, providing defense services in investigations conducted by the
Competition Authority, tailor-made design of vertical agreements, merger
control regime and tort liability arising from breach of competition law. With
the combination of the qualified knowledge and considerable experience, we
envisage to provide our clients with significant cost savings, particularly in
terms of administrative fines and liability for damages.
The services we
provide with an effective result-oriented approach can be framed as follows:
- Monitoring
and defending preliminary investigations or investigations initiated by
the Competition Authority, including new types of violations, cartel
agreements, vertical restrictions such as resale price fixing,
customer/regional restrictions, non-competition obligations and abuse of
dominant position through exploitative or exclusionary practices,
- Execution
of the settlement process or preparation of commitment packages for
behaviors that do not constitute clear and serious violations, and
completion of the process in a way to serve the client company's interest
without administrative fines,
- Filing
negative clearance and/or individual exemption applications regarding
horizontal cooperation agreements, vertical agreements and decisions of
associations of undertakings, where legal certainty is an issue, and
finalizing the process in the fastest and most practical way,
- Designing
distribution networks to ensure full freedom of commercial action in line
with the demands of our clients; in this context, preparation of
distribution agreements such as agency, franchise, exclusive distribution,
qualitative/quantitative selective distribution systems,
- Notification
of all above the threshold merger/acquisition transactions, including
joint ventures before the Competition Authority and follow-up of the
process; in this context, generating appropriate formulas to ensure the
most effective notification of cross-border acquisitions and obtaining
permission quickly, managing the structural and/or behavioral commitment
process related to the merger/acquisition transactions taken to the
phase-II review stage,
- Filing
annulment lawsuits against the decisions taken by the Competition
Authority and following up the proceedings before administrative courts,
regional administrative courts and the Council of State,
- Following
up treble damages lawsuits for compensation arising from the infringement
of competition law and concluding the compensation claims in the most
effective and practical way by conducting the lawsuits filed following the
mandatory mediation before the first instance, appeal and Supreme Court,
- Managing
competition compliance programs in order to identify the risks that may
arise in the context of competition law in advance; depending on the
content of the request received from our clients, and in particular,
conducting on-site examination simulations, examining the contracts to
which undertakings are a party from a competition law perspective,
reporting the risky issues identified in the on-site examination
simulations and organizing detailed competition law trainings on these
risks, organizing exams after the trainings and preparing manuals and/or
guides that undertakings can easily refer to regarding the required and
non-required behaviors in managing their daily activities; and
- Providing
consultancy services on the legal changes that have come to the agenda
within the scope of the legislation, especially in digital markets and
electronic commerce.