Sezin Elcin Cengiz - Global Referral - Competition Law

Sezin Elcin Cengiz

Competition Law Counsel

Biography

Sezin has been leading Competition/Antitrust lawyer.

Based on 22 years of dedicated Turkish competition law experience, Sezin guides clients through competition law aspects of mergers and acquisitions, counsels them on antitrust compliance matters, and helps them navigate preliminary investigations, investigations and other proceedings before the Turkish Competition Authority.

She develops optimum transaction structures in terms of compliance with merger control rules, conducts the jurisdictional analysis of merger filing requirements and advises competition-law issues as part of legal due diligence as well as remedies and multijurisdictional considerations. She regularly represents merging parties before the Turkish Competition Authority.

Sezin provides “sector-specific” advice to clients active in a variety of sectors, on managing risk resulting from antitrust rules on their day-to day operations; designing and implementing competition compliance programmes, and delivering tailored competition law trainings/ workshops to board members and other executives.

During her time at the Turkish Competition Authority as a senior case handler, she managed investigations, led on the spot inspection (dawn raid) teams, and performed numerous M&A and exemption/negative clearance assessments as well as privatization cases, in particular in banking, insurance, tourism, education, land air and sea transportation, ports and pharma sectors.

Sezin has long been regarded as a highly regarded competition counsel in Turkey by legal directories including Global Competition Review (GCR), Chambers&Partners and Legal 500. She has also received the exclusive Client Choice Award for Turkey Competition for the past two years and also recognized by Who is Who Legal.

Firm Description

“CORE is an independent consulting firm in Turkey, specialized in competition law and regulation. At CORE, we focus on providing expert guidance and strategic solutions in the complex realm of competition law and regulation. With years of experience under our belt, we offer tailor-made advice on a full range of competition/antitrust matters, including merger control, cartel, and dominance investigations, as well as regulatory compliance.

Through our dedicated network of experts, comprising some of the finest legal minds and industry specialists in Turkey, we provide advice firmly grounded in a profound understanding of specific industries, enabling us to deliver commercially insightful solutions for the competition law and regulation-related issues our clients face.

Clear communication is at the CORE of our approach, ensuring that our guidance is straightforward, easily comprehensible, and actionable for our clients.”

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