Baran is a founding partner of Baş | Kaymaz Law Firm who has been working on competition law on an exclusive basis in all axis of this discipline for more than 10 years. He focuses on cartel agreements, abuse of dominance cases, mergers and acquisitions, incorporation of joint ventures, exemption applications as well as compensation lawsuits arising from competition law infringements. Further, he conducts compliance checks over client companies’ business practices and advises client companies to ensure their full-compliance to competition law rules. He has represented various multinational and national companies on mergers and acquisitions, incorporation of joint ventures, cartel investigations, anti-competitive vertical agreement claims and abuse of dominance cases before the Turkish Competition Authority and multinational companies on compensation lawsuits arising from competition law infringements before Turkish courts.
Baş | Kaymaz is a Turkish law firm offering comprehensive consultancy and representation services to national and multinational clients as well as law firms from abroad. Baş | Kaymaz provides assistance in every front Turkish competition law including but not limited to merger control filings, on-site inspections, defences in preliminary inquiries and investigations (anticompetitive practices and abuse of dominance cases), negative clearance and/or exemption applications, individual exemption analyses, trainings, compliance programs, private enforcement and compensation lawsuits as well as administrative lawsuits for the stay of execution and annulment of Turkish Competition Board decisions. Baş | Kaymaz is also active in other fields of Turkish law such as data protection and privacy, commercial, corporate and M&A, employment law, health law and dispute resolution.
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