Overview
Competition law, or antitrust law, is designed to prevent anti-competitive behavior that could harm consumers, businesses, and the economy. It ensures fair competition by regulating practices such as price-fixing, monopolies, and abuse of market dominance. In Türkiye, competition law is enforced by the Competition Authority (Rekabet Kurumu), which oversees mergers, acquisitions, and restrictive agreements that could distort market dynamics. A strong competition law framework is essential for maintaining market integrity and fostering economic growth.
How CPT Can Assist You?
CPT Attorney Partnership, has vast knowledge and experience in providing defense services in preliminary inquiries and investigations conducted by the Competition Authority, managing competition compliance programs, designing various types of vertical agreements, merger control regimes and private actions arising from breach of competition law. A general overview of the services that we offer is as follows:
- Defending preliminary inquiries or investigations initiated by the Competition Authority, including cartel agreements, vertical restrictions such as resale price maintenance, active and/or passive sales restrictions, non-competition obligations and abuse of dominant position through exploitative or exclusionary practices.
- Filing individual exemption applications regarding horizontal cooperation agreements, vertical agreements, decisions of associations of undertakings, and other commercial behaviors, where legal
- Designing distribution networks to ensure full freedom of commercial action in line with the demands of our clients, in this context, preparation of distribution agreements such as agency, franchise, dealership, exclusive distribution, qualitative/quantitative selective distribution systems,
- Execution of the settlement process or preparation of commitment packages for competitive concerns and completion of the process in a way to serve the clients’ interest without administrative fines,
- Notification of all above-the-threshold merger/acquisition transactions, in this context, generating appropriate formulas to ensure the most effective notification of cross-border acquisitions and obtaining permission quickly, ensuring that the process is completed without penalties, managing the structural and/or behavioral commitment process related to the merger/acquisition transactions,
- Filing annulment lawsuits against the decisions taken by the Competition Authority and following up the proceedings before administrative courts, district administrative courts and the Council of State,
- Following up treble damages for compensation arising from the infringement of competition law and invalidity of contracts related to unjust enrichment,
- Managing competition compliance programs in order to identify the risks and in particular, conducting on-site examination simulations, examining the contracts to which undertakings are a party from a competition law perspective, reporting the risky issues identified in the on-site examination simulations and organizing detailed competition law trainings on these risks, preparing manuals and/or guides that undertakings can easily refer to regarding the required and non-required behaviors in managing their daily activities,
- Providing consultancy services on the legal changes that have come to the agenda within the scope of the legislation.
Our Experience
We have extensive experience advising both local and international clients on various aspects of competition law. Our team has successfully provided legal counsel in merger control processes, securing clearances for numerous transactions across different industries. We have represented clients in investigations before the Competition Authority, assisting them in developing effective compliance strategies and resolving competition-related disputes. Through our in-depth knowledge of competition law and regulatory procedures, we help businesses operate confidently while mitigating legal risks.
