Mr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, our founding partner and head of ELIG Gürkaynak’s competition law and regulatory team, spoke at the 7th Global Antitrust Economics conference panel entitled “Merger Control in the New World of Antitrust” organised by Concurrences on December 8, 2022 at NYU Stern School of Business, New York. Mr. Luis Cabral (Chair - Department of Economics, NYU Stern School of Business) moderated the session and the other speakers included Mr. George S. Cary (Partner, Cleary Gottlieb, Washington D.C.), Ms. Gwendolyn Cooley (NAAG Antitrust Task Force Chair and Winsconsin’s Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Madison), Mr. Douglas Rathbun (Competition Policy, Meta, Washington D.C.) and Mr. David Teslicko (Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice).

Mr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, our founding partner and head of ELIG Gürkaynak’s competition law and regulatory team, spoke at the Advanced EU Competition Law, Brussels 2022 Conference panel entitled “Sustainability, ESG & Competition Policy” organised by Informa Connect in Brussels on November 22, 2022. Ms. Elvira Aliende Rodriguez (Partner, Shearman & Sterling, Brussels) moderated the session and the other speakers included Ms. Julia Sabine Wahl (Partner, Copenhagen Economics, Brussels), Mr. Ioannis Lianos (President, Hellenic Competition Commission, Athens) and Ms. Angélique de Brousse (Head of Competition Law and Policy Group EMEA, Johnson & Johnson, Brussels).

Mr. Tilman Kuhn (Partner, White & Case, Düsseldorf & Brussels) moderated the session and the other speakers included Mr. Fabian Pape (Head of Unit, German and European Merger Control, Bundeskartellamt, Bonn), Mr. Étienne Chantrel (Head of Mergers Unit, Autorite de la concurrence, Paris) and Mr. Richard Romney (Director of Mergers, Competition & Markets Authority, London).

The speakers of the webinar were Mr. William E. Kovacic (Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy, George Washington University) and Mr. Ioannis Kokkoris (Professor of Competition Law and Economics (London); Dean for International, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Director General (Paris), Queen Mary University). They discussed the interface between competition law and innovation, sustainability, foreign direct investment (FDI) control issues, inflation, and other public policy goals.

Ms. Mélanie Thill-Tayara (Partner, Dechert, Paris) moderated the session and the other speakers included Mr. Yann Guthmann, (Head of Digital Economy Unit, Autorité de la concurrence, Paris), Mr. Pierre Régibeau (Chief Competition Economist, DG COMP, Brussels) and Mr. David Sevy (Executive Vice President, Compass Lexecon, Paris).

The speakers of the webinar included Ms. Eleanor M. Fox, Walter J. Derenberg (Professor of Trade Regulation at New York University School of Law) and Mr. Frédéric Jenny (Emeritus Professor at ESSEC Business School and Chairman of the OECD Competition Committee).

Mr. Richard Whish (Emeritus Professor, King’s College London) moderated the session and the other speakers included Ms. Birthe Panhans (Head of Unit in Mergers: Transport, Post, and other services, DG COMP, Brussels), Soledad Pereiras (Vice President, Compass Lexecon, Madrid), Paul Reeve (Principal, RBB Economics) and Mike Walker (Chief Economic Adviser, UK Competition and Markets Authority, London).

You may watch the full interview on Who’s Who Legal’s website here: https://whoswholegal.com/gonenc-gurkaynak

The speakers of the webinar included Mr. Ian Forrester QC LLD, General Court of the European Union (Luxembourg) Former Judge, EU General Court, and Mr. Douglas H. Ginsburg, Senior Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Professor of Law at GMU Antonin Scalia Law.