About Gönenç Gürkaynak

Gönenç Gürkaynak is the founding partner of ELIG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law and heads the firm’s competition law and regulatory department. He has more than 25 years of competition law experience, starting with the establishment of the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA). Every year, Gönenç represents multinational companies and large domestic clients in more than 35 written and oral defences in TCA investigations, about 15 antitrust appeal cases in the high administrative court and more than 85 merger clearances by the TCA, in addition to co-ordinating various worldwide merger notifications, drafting non-compete agreements and clauses, and preparing hundreds of legal memoranda concerning a wide array of Turkish and EC competition law topics.