Dr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, our founding partner and head of ELIG Gürkaynak’s competition law and regulatory team, will speak at the upcoming online event Antitrust in Developing & Emerging Economies organized by Concurrences. The event will take place between 12 – 14 December 2023, and Dr. Gürkaynak will participate on December 13, 2023 (Wednesday) at 11:30 EST to the panel session titled “Innovation and Competition Law: What do Developing Countries Need?”.

Dr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, our founding partner and head of ELIG Gürkaynak’s competition law and regulatory team, spoke at the EU Merger Control 2023 Conference panel entitled “Managing Multijurisdictional Mergers: Is there Greater Divergence of Approaches by the Regulators?” organised by Informa Connect in Brussels on September 28, 2023. Mr. William Leslie (Partner, Linklaters) moderated the session and the other speakers included Ms. Naomi Burgoyne (Director, Mergers, Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)) and Ms. Catherine Higgs (Legal Director UK & Ireland and Global Competition Law Head, GSK).

Dr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, the founding partner and head of ELIG Gürkaynak’s competition law and regulatory team, will speak at The Legal 500 webinar entitled “Innovation Theories of Harm in Merger Control" on Thursday, October 19, 2023 at 10:00 PDT / 18:00 UK time / 19:00 CET / 20:00 Turkish time. Dr. Gürkaynak will moderate the session and the other speakers will include Prof. David J. Teece, Professor in Global Business at the University of California’s Haas School of Business (Berkeley) and Prof. Damien Geradin, Founding Partner of Geradin Partners, Professor of Competition Law & Economics at Tilburg University, visiting Professor of Law at University College London.

Dr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, our founding partner and head of ELIG Gürkaynak’s competition law and regulatory team, will speak at a panel entitled “International remedies – if the system is broken, can we fix it first?” at the upcoming GCR Live: Global Merger Control Conference organized by Global Competition Review in Brussels on Thursday, October 12, 2023. Other panel speakers include Ms. Nicole Kar (Partner, Linklaters) and Mr. David Little (Partner, Latham & Watkins). The panel moderator is Ms. Ilene Knable Gotts (Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz).

Dr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, the founding partner and head of ELIG Gürkaynak’s competition law and regulatory team, will speak at The Legal 500 webinar entitled “Innovation and Competition Law" on Thursday, June 15, 2023 at 10:00 EDT / 15:00 UK time / 16:00 CET / 17:00 Turkish time. Dr. Gürkaynak will moderate the session and the other speakers will include Dr. Jorge Padilla, Senior Managing Director, Head of Compass Lexecon Europe, Member of the Global Executive Committee, and Ms. Rachel Brandenburger, Global Senior Advisor to APCO Worldwide.

Mr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, the founding partner and head of ELIG Gürkaynak’s competition law and regulatory team, will speak at The Legal 500 webinar entitled “The Evolution of Competition Law Theory and Practice: What's Next?" on Monday, March 20, 2023 at 12:00 CDT / 17:00 UK time / 18:00 CET / 20:00 Turkish time. Mr. Gürkaynak will moderate the session and the other speakers will include Mr. Spencer Waller, John Paul Stevens Chair in Competition Law, Director of the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, and Professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, and Mr. Ioannis Lianos, Professor, Chair of Global Competition Law and Public Policy and Founding Director of the Centre for Law, Economics and Society at the Faculty of Laws, University College London.

Mr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, the founding partner and head of our competition law and regulatory team, will speak at a panel entitled “Developments at Key Jurisdictions” at the EU Merger Control 2022, Brussels on Wednesday, September 28, 2022.

Mr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, the founding partner and head of ELIG Gürkaynak’s competition law and regulatory team, will speak at The Legal 500 webinar entitled “A Contemporary Analysis of the Prime Objective(s) of Competition Law” on Tuesday, September 13, 2022.

Mr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, the founding partner and head of ELIG Gürkaynak’s competition law and regulatory team, will speak at The Legal 500 webinar entitled “Emerging Challenges in Global Competition Law Enforcement: Hot Topics of the Near Future” on Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at 11:00 EDT / 16:00 UK time / 17:00 CET / 18:00 Turkish time.

Mr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, the founding partner and head of our competition law and regulatory team, and Mr. Miguel Perez Guerra, Director, Head of Antitrust EMEA at PayPal, will speak at the Mondaq webinar entitled “Antitrust Policy in Digital Markets: Are We Headed In The Right Direction?” on Tuesday, February 1, 2022.