Dr. Gürkaynak heads the competition law and regulatory department of ELIG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law. He has unparalleled experience in Turkish competition law counselling issues with more than 25 years of competition law experience, starting with the establishment of the Turkish Competition Authority. Every year, Dr. Gürkaynak represents multinational companies and large domestic clients in more than 35 written and oral defences in investigations of the Turkish Competition Authority, about 15 antitrust appeal cases in the high administrative court and over 85 merger clearances of the Turkish Competition Authority, in addition to coordinating various worldwide merger notifications, drafting non-compete agreements and clauses, and preparing hundreds of legal memoranda concerning a wide array of Turkish and European Commission competition law topics.

Dr. Gürkaynak frequently speaks at conferences and symposia on competition law matters. He has published more than 200 articles in English and Turkish with various international and local publishers.

He has given expert testimony before the competition authorities and courts of several EU member states, as well as in cases before the European Commission. Dr. Padilla has submitted written testimony to the European General Court, and the UK Competition Appeals Tribunal in cartel, merger control and abuse of dominance cases. He has also given expert testimony in various civil litigation (damages), international arbitration cases, and competition cases in non-EU jurisdictions (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, India, Israel, Jamaica, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey, and the United States).

Dr. Padilla has written numerous papers on competition policy, industrial organization and finance in the Antitrust Bulletin, the Antitrust Law Journal, the Economic Journal, the Energy Journal, the European Competition Journal, the European Competition Law Review, the Fordham International Law Journal, Industrial and Corporate Change, the International Journal of Industrial Organization, the Journal of Competition Law and Economics, the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, the Journal of Industrial Economics, the Journal of Economic Theory, the RAND Journal of Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the University of Chicago Law Review, and World Competition.

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Fide Foundation.

He is also co-author of The Law and Economics of Article 102 TFEU, 3rd edition, Hart Publishing, 2020.

Ms. Brandenburger has an international outlook and experience of living and working in the U.K., Europe, and the U.S. She was special advisor, international to the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, based in Washington D.C. (2010-2013), and has also been a partner in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, based in Brussels and London and a senior advisor & foreign legal consultant to Hogan Lovells US LLP, based in New York.

As special advisor, international to the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division Ms. Brandenburger advised on over 50 investigations that involved cooperation between the Division and many other antitrust agencies around the world; the formulation of cooperation protocols between the U.S. antitrust agencies and (i) the European Commission (ii) the Chinese antimonopoly agencies and (iii) the Competition Commission of India; Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development and International Competition Network cooperation and transparency initiatives; and the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership proposals. She also participated in many bilateral and multilateral meetings between the leaders of the U.S. antitrust agencies and other agencies around the world.

Ms. Brandenburger is also a visiting research fellow at the University of Oxford’s Institute of European & Comparative Law, University of Oxford, where she created and teaches seminars on the global dimension of competition law and policy. Her recent (co)authored publications include papers on Brexit, the digital economy, foreign investment and competition law and policy developments in China, Germany, and the U.K.

Ms. Brandenburger is a non-governmental advisor to the International Competition Network, a member of the Advisory Board of the American Antitrust Institute, and the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association’s Antitrust Section. She also holds non-executive board/trustee positions in several organizations in the U.S. and U.K., including the American Friends of the British Council, Equality Now—whose mission is “creating a just world for women and girls”—and the University of Oxford Law Foundation.