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The competition team at Gen Temizer provides a comprehensive service to domestic and multinational corporates across sectors ranging from building materials, tech, retail, real estate and life sciences to chemicals, oil and gas. The group’s full offering covers day-to-day competition law assistance, litigation, merger control filings and internal investigations. The practice is headed by Bulut Girgin, elected to the firm’s partnership in May 2023, who brings extensive experience representing companies before the Turkish Competition Board and administrative courts. Key support is provided at the associate level by Simru Tayfun and Orçun Horozoğlu.

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  • ‘Bulut Girgin is very responsive, proactive and helpful. He gives practical advice.’

  • ‘The Gen Temizer Özer competition law team lead by Bulut Girgin is excellent. It provides very pragmatic and well-founded competition law advice.’

  • ‘Bulut Girgin possesses expertise in all competition matters. He is extremely responsive and very pragmatic in his approach. Clients like working with Bulut. At the associate level, Simru Tayfun stands out with excellent competition law expertise.’

  • ‘Simru Tayfun is an expert in competition filing.'

  • ‘Bulut Girgin is always available and ready to support. His commercial sense provides added-value to the service.’

Key clients

  • Alfardan
  • BP
  • Castrol
  • Dahua Technology
  • Eni
  • Eren Perakende (Lacoste, Burberry, Converse)
  • Euglena
  • Hacı Ömer Sabancı Holding
  • Herbert Smith Freehills
  • Invest Unternehmensbeteiligungs
  • Melecs
  • Murat Ticaret
  • Petroleum Nasional Berhad (Petronas)
  • Pia Bilişim
  • Raiffeisen
  • Ravago Chemicals
  • Siemens
  • Sisal Şans
  • Torunlar GYO
  • Vivense
  • Votorantim

Work highlights

  • Successfully defended Votorantim, a cement and concrete company in the Anatolian Cement Investigation of the Turkish Competition Board, where the investigation was concluded without fines or other sanctions.
  • Defended Vivense, a furniture company in the labour market investigation.
  • Represented Torunlar Enerji, a subsidiary of Torunlar GYO, a real estate investment trust, in terms of the merger control filing before the Turkish Competition Authority with respect to its acquisition of joint control over AKCEZ

Lawyers

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Bulut Girgin

Other key lawyers

Simru Tayfun, Orçun Horozoğlu