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    Simru Tayfun

    Gen & Temizer | Özer
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    Simru Tayfun is an Associate with experience in competition law. Simru has advised clients in diverse sectors including cement and RMX concrete, e-commerce, oil and gas, chemicals and petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, insurance as well as electricity. Before joining the competition law team in Kinstellar, Simru has worked in the competition law department of a leading law firm in Istanbul. She has filed numerous merger control filings before the Turkish Competition Authority and participated in delivering of competition law compliance programs. She also has played an active role in terms of the defences in investigations carried out by the Turkish Competition Authority. Simru has certificates for competition law practice in digital sectors and competition law in practice.


    Practice Areas & Work Department

    Competition Law & Compliance

     

    Languages

    Turkish

    English

    German

     

    Memberships

    Istanbul Bar Association


    Education

    2018, Istanbul Bilgi University, Faculty of Law, 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.
    Simru Tayfun

    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.
    Simru Tayfun

    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.
    Simru Tayfun

    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.
    Simru Tayfun

    Two-minute Recap of Competition Law Matters Around the Globe – December 2022

    Two-minute Recap of Competition Law Matters Around the Globe – December 2022
    Simru Tayfun

    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.
    Simru Tayfun