In the Competition law, horizontal-vertical agreements restricting competition, abuse of dominant position and mergers or acquisitions based on expertise in the fields of legal consulting services are provided.
In this context, within the framework of preventive legal services “Competition Law Compliance Programs” and providing awareness for professional managers and the general legal scanning services are offered for enterprises. Also, within the framework of commercial life, continuous consulting services are provided, in order to make the activities to be compatible with competition law, by enterprises. Horizontal nature of the enterprises’ relationships with competitors and dealers, and the vertical relationships between offices and agencies, by obtaining commercial principles to be taken to the forefront in terms of competition law necessary for the healthy functioning of the legal advisory services, necessary consulting services are offered on the basis of the economic analysis.
For the “dominant enterprises” in relevant markets, legal consultancy services are provided by the economic analysis of the risks taken in the flow of commercial life aiming to provide accordance with the law. In order to avoid the unilateral behavior of dominant enterprises, resulting in “abuse of dominant position” and creating legal risk, preventive legal counseling services are offered within the framework of the regular consultations.
It is not possible, in the monitoring system of merger or acquisition which is a means of checking to obtain market power through concentrations of competition law, to get legal validity without the permission of the Turkish Competition Authority in excess of a specified threshold. In this context, in the acquisition of companies, legal evaluations are made by economic analysis in measuring the achievement of reaching threshold. Enterprises are provided with legal consultancy assistance within the whole stages of preparing a notification form based on the acquisition of commercial negotiations between enterprises and in the entire acquisition process within the scope of competition law. Monitoring of permission to be taken from the Turkish Competition Authority is provided by representing the enterprises.
Legal consultancy and advocacy services are provided for giving the right information and documents into “dawn raid” procedure of competition experts and procedure of “demand of information notices” to obtain the right information and documents in terms of determining realization of legal risks within the scope of the competition law in preliminary investigation / investigation stages conducted by the Turkish Competition authority.
Güzel Law Office offers legal services for judicial review against infringement and other decisions of Turkish Competition Authority.
Güzel law office also offers legal services to enterprises which have had damage from anti-competitive behaviors of competitors for obtaining triple damage compensation regarding to article 58 of the Act No: 4054, The Act on Protection of the Competition.