Mr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, the founding partner and head of ELIG Gürkaynak’s competition law and regulatory team, spoke at a panel entitled “Mega Mergers and Developing Countries” at the Concurrences Antitrust in Developing and Emerging Economies: Coping with Nationalism, Building Inclusive Growth Conference held at New York University School of Law on Friday, October 26, 2018.

Our founding partner, Mr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, spoke at a panel entitled “The Interface Between Compliance Systems and Corporate Governance in Turkey” at the CEE Legal Matters 2018 Turkey on Thursday, November 8, 2018.

Mr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, Founding Partner and head of ELIG Gürkaynak's competition law and regulatory team, spoke at a panel entitled “Mega Mergers and Developing Countries” at the Concurrences Antitrust in Developing and Emerging Economies: Coping with Nationalism, Building Inclusive Growth Conference held at New York University School of Law on Friday, October 26, 2018.

Our founding partner, Mr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, was a speaker on the panel entitled “Data Privacy - justice is the foundation of which state?” (“Veri Mahremiyeti – Adalet, hangi mülkün temelidir?”) on October 19 and 20, 2018.

Mr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, founding partner and head of ELIG Gürkaynak's competition law and regulatory team, was a panelist at the Corporate Sustainability Conference for Legal Counsel (“Hukuk Müşavirleri İçin Kurumsal Sürdürülebilirlik Konferansı”) on October 16, 2018.

Mr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, ELIG Gürkaynak's founding partner and head of the competition law and regulatory team, spoke on a panel entitled “A holistic approach to compliance: integrating antitrust and anti-corruption compliance reflexes” at The Legal 500 General Counsel Turkey Summit in Istanbul on Thursday, September 27, 2018.

Mr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, founding partner and head of our regulatory and compliance department spoke on a panel entitled “Senior M&As Lawyers Reflect on Corruption Risks and Pitfalls in Transactions: The Mistakes Companies Make in Pre-Merge Due Diligence and Post-Transaction Integration” on Wednesday, June 27, 2018.

Mr. Gönenç Gürkaynak spoke at a panel entitled “Is Competition Law Fit for the 21st Century?” at the Advanced EU Competition Law London Conference on Tuesday, May 15, 2018.

Mr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, ELIG Gürkaynak’s founding partner and head of our competition law and regulatory team spoke at a panel entitled “Joint Venture Agreements and Competition Law” at the conference organised by Istanbul Bilgi University and Schellenberg Wittmer on Friday, May 4, 2018.

ELIG Gürkaynak has hosted a Turkish competition law webinar in collaboration with Lexology. During the webinar, head of our competition law and regulatory practice, Mr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, introduces remedies and Phase II reviews under the Turkish merger control regime.