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Caner K. ÇEŞİT provides assistance to national and multinational clients for all matters of competition law and regulatory projects. Mr. ÇEŞİT focuses on advising clients mainly on investigations, negative clearance/exemption applications, merger control filings and day-to-day issues on competition law as well as conducts follow-on competition litigation.
Mr. ÇEŞİT is fluent in English.
EXPERIENCE & MAIN PROJECTS
- Investigations initiated by the Turkish Competition Authority for all clients in a variety of sectors such as automotive, banking, consumer electronics, energy, e-commerce, FMCG, iron and steel, logistics, meal card and telecommunication.
- Merger control proceedings across a wide range of sectors with particular focus on high-profile, complex merger control transactions.
- Competition compliance programs for the clients in a variety of sectors such as aviation, media, health, mining, port management, smart card, shopping mall managament in addition to the sectors mentioned above.
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Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, LL.M. in Capital Markets and Commercial Law, 2019
Istanbul University, LLB, 2014
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1. The Public Competition Enforcement Review, 2022, Turkey, The Law Reviews, with Bahadır Balkı, Ertuğrul Can Canbolat, and İdil Gizay Doğan
2. Intellectual Property & Antitrust 2022, Turkey, Lexology, Getting the Deal Through, Law Business Research with Fevzi Toksoy, Bahadır Balkı, Deniz Kıvanç and Ulya Zeynep Tan
3. Competition Compliance 2022, Turkey, Lexology, Getting the Deal Through, Law Business Research with Fevzi Toksoy, Bahadır Balkı, and Ertuğrul Can Canbolat
4. "Administrative Court Decided to Stay the Execution of Turkish Competition Authority’s Decision of Administrative Monetary Fine for Hindrance of On-site Inspection (Sahibinden.com)", Concurrences, June 2022, with Cansen Erensoy
5. "Attorney-Client Privilege from Competition Law Perspective: Comparison Between Turkish and French Legal Systems", Lexology, June 2022, with İdil Gizay Doğan
6. "New Footprints in the Framework of SEPs and FRAND Terms", Lexology, May 2022, with Ulya Zeynep Tan
7. "The TCA's Tough Stance towards Information Exchange through Association of Undertakings", Lexology, September 2021, with Ulya Zeynep Tan
8. "First Implementation of the Settlement Mechanism Upon the Recent Publication of the Settlement Regulation", Lexology, August 2021 with Ulya Zeynep Tan
9. "The TCA Rules: State Owned Financial Entities are under the Same Economic Unity", Lexology, March 2021
10. "The Turkish Competition Authority Fines Ice Cream Supplier for Exclusivity Practices (Unilever/Algida)", Concurrences, March 2021
11. "The Turkish Competition Authority Fines Auto Expertise Services Providers for Price Fixing and Supply Cartel (Auto / Çözüm / Dyno Max...)", Lexology, January 2021, with Ertuğrul Can Canbolat and Alper Karafil
12. "The TCA Rules: State Owned Financial Entities are under the Same Economic Unity", Concurrences, December 2020, with Burak Buğrahan Sezer
13. "No Excuses to Not Responding to Information Requests: Financial Institutions Case in Turkey", Kluwer Competition Law Blog, November 2020, with Ertuğrul Can Canbolat
14. "The Turkish Administrative Court Decided that the Practices based on Secondary Legislation in Force Cannot be Deemed as Violation of the Competition Law", Lexology, October 2020, with Ertuğrul Can Canbolat and Alper Karafil
15. "After Almost 13 Years Long Fight, the Constitutional Court Ruled that the Principle of Legality of Crimes and Punishments Violated with Respect to Determination of Administrative Fine by the Turkish Competition Authority (Onmed)", Concurrences, June 2020, with Ertuğrul Can Canbolat and Burak Buğrahan Sezer
16. "Competition Law Related Problems in Digital Payment Systems", Istanbul Bilgi University Competition Law in Practice Seminars 2020 (prepared as a book)
17. Competition Problems in Distribution Networks: The Turkish Competition Authority Involved with a Heavy Hand", Network Industries Quarterly, Vol. 1, Issue 3, 2021 (March)
18. "Observations on the Amendments Intended to be Made in the Act on the Protection of Competition" (Co-writer), Istanbul Bilgi University Competition Law in Practice Seminars 2019 (prepared as a book)
19. The Role of Competition Law in the Digital Transition in Payment Services, LL.M Thesis, 2019
20. "A Discussion on the Function of Regulation and Competition Law Regarding Contract Farming and Poultry Market" (Co-writer), Istanbul Bilgi University Competition Law in Practice Seminars 2018 (prepared as a book)