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.