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    Bulut Girgin

    Gen & Temizer | Özer
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    Bulut Girgin has over 10 years of experience in competition law, regulated industries and compliance. He has advised clients in diverse sectors including telecommunications, FMCG, automotive, construction, media and technology. Bulut has represented various multinational and national companies before the Turkish Competition Board, administrative courts and the Council of State regarding cartel and abuse of dominance investigations and has filed numerous M&A and negative clearance filings with the Turkish Competition Authority. He has also conducted, as both as an in-house lawyer and outside counsel, several comprehensive compliance programs on competition law, anti-corruption matters and internal investigations.


    Practice Areas & Work Department

    Competition Law and Compliance

     

    Languages

    Turkish

    English

    German

     

    Memberships

    Istanbul Bar Association


    Education

    2015, King's College London, LL.M., Competition Law, Recipient of Chevening Scholarship from the UK Government

    2009, Bilkent University, LL.M. (Law and Economics)

    2008, Baskent University, LL.B.

    How Does Turkey’s Competition Board Interpret Anti-competitive Information Exchange? An Analysis of Its Recent Car Rental Decision

    In a preliminary investigation involving 12 undertakings operating in the car rental sector, the Turkish Competition Board scrutinised allegations that the car rental undertakings violated Article 4 of Law No. 4054 on the Protection of Competition by exchanging information pertaining to stocks, competitors’ price offers and market shares, and vehicle purchase data.
    Bulut Girgin

    Rekabet Kurulu Elon Musk’a Hukuki Yükümlülüklerini Hatırlattı

    Hatırlarsınız Elon Musk, 2022 yılında Twitter'ı satın almak için yaptığı teklifle, her zaman olduğu gibi, bir kez daha dünya çapında haber olmuştu. Aylar süren görüşmelerin ve yüzlerce haber ve eleştirinin ardından, Ekim 2022'nin sonlarında da 44 milyar ABD doları karşılığında Twitter’ı satın aldı.
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    Elon Musk Reminded of Competition Rules by the Turkish Competition Board

    Elon Musk made news globally when he made an offer to buy the social networking platform Twitter in 2022. After months of back and forth and an overwhelming amount of news and critical analysis, Musk’s acquisition of Twitter was completed in late October 2022 for a reported USD 44 billion.
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    Two-Minute Recap of Recent Developments in Turkish Competition Law – January & February 2023

    During January and February, the Turkish Competition Board published eighty-one reasoned decisions and approved seventeen merger and acquisition transactions in total.
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    Two-minute Recap of Competition Law Matters Around the Globe – February 2023

    In 2018, the European Commission fined French telecoms operator Altice a sum of EUR 124.5 million for breaching the notification and standstill requirements in its acquisition of PT Portugal.
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    Two-minute Recap of Competition Law Matters Around the Globe – January 2023

    Germany’s Bundeskartellamt has opened an investigation to decide whether PayPal has taken advantage of its dominant position by using most-favored-nation clauses that limit competition in the online payments market.
    Bulut Girgin

    ECJ’s view on attorney-client privilege: When will professional secrecy apply? What is the view from Turkey?

    The attorney-client privilege has always been considered within the scope of the right to defence by the ECJ. However, further to the Belgian Tax Decision, the ECJ now considers the privilege within the scope of respect for private life instead of right to privacy, thus widening the application of legal professional privilege. It is a matter of great curiosity whether (and how) the ECJ’s decision will affect local competition authorities, including the Turkish Competition Authority.
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    Two-minute Recap of Recent Developments in Turkish Competition Law – December 2022

    Two-minute Recap of Recent Developments in Turkish Competition Law – December 2022
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    Two-minute Recap of Competition Law Matters Around the Globe – December 2022

    Two-minute Recap of Competition Law Matters Around the Globe – December 2022
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    Another hub-and-spoke cartel decision by Turkey’s Competition Board

    Turkey’s Competition Authority has been scrutinizing the retail market of fast moving consume goods for a while. After the Competition Board sanctioned the largest supermarket chains in Turkey along with one of their common suppliers, for creating a hub-and-spoke cartel in 2021, it opened a similar investigation against the same supermarkets, namely BİM, CarrefourSA, Migros, Şok and A101 as well as some of their common suppliers.
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