Competition law is a set of rules and jurisprudence that regulates the economic field with the aim of protecting competitive functioning of markets. There are three main functions in competition law as follows: (1) Detection, prohibition and punishment of agreements between companies that distort competition in the market, (2) Detection, prohibition and punishment of anti-competitive behaviors of dominant companies that have market power, (3) Controlling the mergers and acquisitions.

NAZALI offers industry-focused legal and consultancy services for both competition law/antitrust enforcement processes and designing company/industry specific competition compliance programs. With its practice-based experience, NAZALI provides a wide range of support services for its clients which are listed below:

• Filing Service for Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Assessing merger and acquisition transactions for notification requirement
  • Preparing merger application file in coordination with client and submitting to Turkish Competition Authority, designing remedy packages when necessary
  • Legal analysis of potential post-merger and acquisition antitrust risks and counselling for possible solutions based on current practice
• Filing Service for Exemption and Negative Clearance
  • Legal analysis of the requirement for exemption and negative clearance filing, based on current practice
  • Preparing exemption and negative clearance application file and submitting to the Authority for the cases, designing remedy packages when necessary
• Legal and Consultancy Services for Competition Law Investigations
  • Drafting and preparing written and oral legal defenses against investigations launched by the Turkish Competition Authority
  • Providing legal consultancy during dawn raids conducted by the Authority
• Competition Compliance Services
  • Designing company and industry specific competition compliance programs in order to minimize antitrust risks of clients and internalize competition law culture in the organization
  • Identifying the potential antitrust risks via legal analysis of; market behaviors and all kinds of agreements, contracts and protocols with third parties, all kinds of internal and external communications
• Audit Services
  • Auditing clients by simulating dawn raids, auditing electronic and hard copy documents, preparing audit reports for top management
• Training Services
  • Providing company and industry specific competition law training programs
• Attorney Services for Administrative Litigation and Appeal Process
• Attorney Services for Private Enforcement
• Services for International Competition Law