Dr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, our founding partner and head of ELIG Gürkaynak’s competition law and regulatory team, moderated the Legal 500 webinar entitled “Innovation and Competition Law” on Thursday, June 15, 2023. The speakers of the webinar included Dr. Jorge Padilla (Senior Managing Director, Head of Compass Lexecon Europe, Member of the Global Executive Committee) and Ms. Rachel Brandenburger (Global Senior Advisor to APCO Worldwide).

Dr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, our founding partner and head of ELIG Gürkaynak’s competition law and regulatory team, spoke at the 4th International Mergers Conference panel entitled “Developments of New Theories of Harm in Merger Reviews” organised by Concurrences in partnership with University College London on May 23, 2023. Dr. Ioannis Lianos (President, Hellenic Competition Commission & Professor of Global Competition Law and Public Policy, Faculty of Laws, University College London) moderated the session and the other speakers included Ms. Verity Egerton-Doyle (Counsel, Linklaters, London), Dr. Pedro Hinojo (Head of Information Society, Competition Directorate, Spanish National Markets and Competition Commission, Madrid) and Dr. Adrian Majumdar (Partner, RBB Economics, London).

Conference video kindly provided by Concurrences.

Dr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, the founding partner and head of ELIG Gürkaynak's competition law and regulatory team, was interviewed at the 4th Internatitonal Mergers Conference co-organized by Concurrences and University College London on May 23, 2023.

Mr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, our founding partner and head of ELIG Gürkaynak’s competition law and regulatory team, moderated the Legal 500 webinar entitled “The Evolution of Competition Law Theory and Practice: What's Next?” on Monday, March 20, 2023. The speakers of the webinar included Mr. Ioannis Lianos (Professor, Chair of Global Competition Law and Public Policy and Founding Director of the Centre for Law, Economics and Society at the Faculty of Laws, University College London) and Mr. Spencer Weber Waller (John Paul Stevens Chair in Competition Law, Director of the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, and Professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law)

Mr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, our founding partner and head of ELIG Gürkaynak’s competition law and regulatory team, spoke at the 7th Global Antitrust Economics conference panel entitled “Merger Control in the New World of Antitrust” organised by Concurrences on December 8, 2022 at NYU Stern School of Business, New York. Mr. Luis Cabral (Chair - Department of Economics, NYU Stern School of Business) moderated the session and the other speakers included Mr. George S. Cary (Partner, Cleary Gottlieb, Washington D.C.), Ms. Gwendolyn Cooley (NAAG Antitrust Task Force Chair and Winsconsin’s Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Madison), Mr. Douglas Rathbun (Competition Policy, Meta, Washington D.C.) and Mr. David Teslicko (Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice).

Mr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, our founding partner and head of ELIG Gürkaynak’s competition law and regulatory team, spoke at the Advanced EU Competition Law, Brussels 2022 Conference panel entitled “Sustainability, ESG & Competition Policy” organised by Informa Connect in Brussels on November 22, 2022. Ms. Elvira Aliende Rodriguez (Partner, Shearman & Sterling, Brussels) moderated the session and the other speakers included Ms. Julia Sabine Wahl (Partner, Copenhagen Economics, Brussels), Mr. Ioannis Lianos (President, Hellenic Competition Commission, Athens) and Ms. Angélique de Brousse (Head of Competition Law and Policy Group EMEA, Johnson & Johnson, Brussels).

Mr. Tilman Kuhn (Partner, White & Case, Düsseldorf & Brussels) moderated the session and the other speakers included Mr. Fabian Pape (Head of Unit, German and European Merger Control, Bundeskartellamt, Bonn), Mr. Étienne Chantrel (Head of Mergers Unit, Autorite de la concurrence, Paris) and Mr. Richard Romney (Director of Mergers, Competition & Markets Authority, London).

The speakers of the webinar were Mr. William E. Kovacic (Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy, George Washington University) and Mr. Ioannis Kokkoris (Professor of Competition Law and Economics (London); Dean for International, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Director General (Paris), Queen Mary University). They discussed the interface between competition law and innovation, sustainability, foreign direct investment (FDI) control issues, inflation, and other public policy goals.

Ms. Mélanie Thill-Tayara (Partner, Dechert, Paris) moderated the session and the other speakers included Mr. Yann Guthmann, (Head of Digital Economy Unit, Autorité de la concurrence, Paris), Mr. Pierre Régibeau (Chief Competition Economist, DG COMP, Brussels) and Mr. David Sevy (Executive Vice President, Compass Lexecon, Paris).