Q&A with Dr. Fevzi Toksoy and Bahadir Balki | Actecon
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What do you think about the ‘technology undertaking’ exception to Turkey’s merger control regime? With the adoption of this exception, the TCA exempts certain transactions involving a takeover of a technology undertaking from the target-wise turnover thresholds. Competition authorities worldwide have long been discussing about tackling the so-called ‘killer acquisitions’. While the German and Austrian …
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Selective distribution systems in the pharmaceutical sector | ELIG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law
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Introduction Ankara’s 13th Administrative Court (‘Administrative Court’) annulled1 the Turkish Competition Board’s (‘Board’) decision, dated 3 September 2020 and numbered 20-40/553-249, rejecting the exemption application of Johnson & Johnson Sıhhi Malzeme Sanayi ve Ticaret Ltd. Şti. (‘J&J’) (‘Board’s decision’).
The Turkish Competition Board and the ice cream war | ELIG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law
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The Turkish Competition Board (the Board) decided that several practices of Unilever Sanayi ve Ticaret Türk AŞ (Unilever) amounted to infringement of Article 4 and Article 6 of the Law No 4054 on the Protection of Competition (Law No 4054). 1
Cross-border data transfer in Turkey: will the problems end? | BTS & Partners
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Since the enactment of the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law No 6689 (the Law) in 2016, one of the most critical problems that in-house lawyers of both local and multinational companies face has become cross-border personal data transfers from Turkey. The government has a tendency to keep the data of Turkish residents in Turkey and, …
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