Mr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, our founding partner and head of ELIG Gürkaynak’s competition law and regulatory team, moderated the Legal500 webinar entitled "Emerging Challenges in Global Competition Law Enforcement: Hot Topics of the Near Future" on Tuesday, June 7, 2022. 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. Gönenç Gürkaynak, our founding partner and head of ELIG Gürkaynak’s competition law and regulatory team, spoke at the 6th Innovation Economics Conference panel entitled “Market Definition in Innovation Markets: Time to Rethink?” organised by Concurrences and King’s College London on April 21, 2022. 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).

Mr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, the founding partner and head of our competition law and regulatory team, was interviewed for Who’s Who Legal Thought Leaders: Global Elite 2022.

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

Mr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, our founding partner and head of ELIG Gürkaynak’s competition law and regulatory team, moderated the Legal 500 webinar entitled “Judicial Review of Antitrust Law Matters at Both Sides of the Atlantic” on Tuesday, February 22, 2022. 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.

Av. Gönenç Gürkaynak 15 Şubat 2022 tarihinde Türkiye Kurumsal Yönetim Derneği ve Yanındayız Derneği ortaklığıyla düzenlenen ve Dr. Tamer Saka’nın (TKYD Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı), Perihan İnci’nin (TKYD Yönetim Kurulu Üyesi, İnci Holding Yönetim Kurulu Üyesi) ve Şükrü Ünlütürk’ün (Sun Tekstil A.Ş. Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı) konuşmacı olarak katıldığı “Aile Şirketlerinde Toplumsal Cinsiyet Eşitliği” konulu webinar’da moderatörlük yapmıştır.

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

"Multijurisdictional Mergers in Practice" (Speech by Gönenç Gürkaynak, Esq.), Advanced EU Competition Law, Brussels, InformaConnect, November 24, 2021

Mr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, our founding partner and head of ELIG Gürkaynak’s competition law and regulatory team, spoke at the 8th Antitrust in Developing and Emerging Countries webinar session entitled “Cross Border and Multinational Mergers: Impact on Development” organised by Concurrences on Wednesday, October 27, 2021. The moderator was Prof. Frédéric Jenny (Chairman of the OECD Competition Committee, Professor at ESSEC Paris Business School) and the other panelists included Ms. Mondo Mazwai (Chairperson, Competition Tribunal of South Africa), Ms. Georgiana Pop (Global Lead, Markets and Competition Policy, The World Bank) and Mr. Patrick Hubert (Partner, Orrick).  

Panel video kindly provided by Concurrences.

“Büyük Veri Dünyasında Rekabet Hukukunun Amacına Yeniden Bakış - AB ve Amerikan Yaklaşımı - Türkiye için Öneriler” (A Revision of the Purpose of Competition Law in the World of Big Data - EU and American Approach - Suggestions for Turkey) (Speech by Gönenç Gürkaynak, Esq.), Kişisel Verilerin Korunması ve Rekabet Hukuku Sempozyumu (Personal Data Protection and Competition Law Symposium), October 26, 2021

"Antitrust Settlement Practices - The Developed Regime in the US and the Nascent Regime in Turkey - Issues of Healty Divergence" (Speech by Gönenç Gürkaynak, Esq. and Bilal Sayyed), Mondaq Webinar, October 5, 2021