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Ertuğrul Can CANBOLAT, LL.M. has extensive knowledge of and experience on all aspects of competition law, antitrust and international trade remedies.
Mr. CANBOLAT provides advisory services regarding day-to-day competition and regulatory compliance, the investigations initiated by the Turkish Competition Authority, merger control issues related to both domestic and cross-border mergers as well as exemption applications and representing clients in judicial review proceedings.
Furthermore, he leads the trade remedies practice of ACTECON and has extensive experience in defending international clients in trade defence investigations. His experience includes crafting responses to the questionnaires, constructing successful defence strategies, conducting dumping & injury margin analyses in accordance with various scenarios, preparing strong counter arguments against the domestic industries’ claims and findings of the investigating authority, advising clients in presenting their case to the investigating authority. He has attended many verification visits, public and private hearings and represented European, Korean, Indian and Chinese clients in anti-dumping, anti-circumvention, safeguard and expiry review investigation proceedings. He has hands-on experience on the procedural and practical issues implemented. Mr. CANBOLAT also defends Turkish exporters in dumping investigations initiated by foreign authorities and has experience in international proceedings.
He also provides advisory services to companies wishing to carry out their activities in compliance with internationally accepted principles and customs rules ranging from tariff classification, rules of origin, and customs valuation to foreign exchange regulation.
Mr. CANBOLAT speaks English and German fluently.
EXPERIENCE & MAIN PROJECTS
- Merger control proceedings before the Turkish Competition Authority covering a number of industries, most notably passenger cars, agrochemicals, hospitality and stainless-steel tubes.
- Abuse of dominance cases, restrictive practices and cartel investigations in various industries including forestry products and media audit.
- Competition compliance programs for companies dealing with online retailing and marketplaces, insurance, FMCG, cement, and ready-mix concrete.
- Anti-dumping, anti-circumvention and safeguard investigations initiated by the Turkish Ministry of Trade regarding various industries.
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University of Exeter, Exeter, LL.M. in International Commercial Law, 2012
Bilkent University, Ankara, LLB, 2011
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- Competition Compliance 2023, Turkey, Lexology, Getting the Deal Through, Law Business Research with Caner K. Çeşit, Ulya Zeynep Tan and Miraç Mert Karataş
- “State Aids – Does New Regulation Bring Precision?”, Lexology, April 4, 2023, with Muhammed Safa Uygur and Su Başak Satır
- “Brief Note on the Turkish Ministry’s Assessments Regarding Certain Arguments in Some of Its Trade Remedies Investigations Completed in 2022”, Lexology, March 31, 2023, with Su Başak Satır
- “New Rules on Agricultural Research and Development Support Programme”, Lexology, March 30, 2023, with Muhammed Safa Uygur and Su Başak Satır
- "The TCA Publishes Pioneer Decisions on the Simultaneous Implementation of the Leniency and Settlement Procedures", Concurrences, February 2, 2023 with Muhammed Safa Uygur, Deniz Kıvanç and Zeynep Tuna Akbaş
- "Where to Draw the Line of the Scope of Right to Access to Personal Data? The Constitutional Court Ruled on One’s Right to Access Their Own Personal Data", Lexology, January 25, 2023 with Alper Karafil and Su Başak Satır
- “Trendyol Avoids a Full-Fledged Investigation by the Turkish Competition Authority and Gets Block Exemption”, Concurrences, January 25, 2023 with Safa Uygur and Sıla Coşkunoğlu
- "Private Schools’ Practices Are Under the Scrutiny of Turkish Competition Authority", Concurences, January 19, 2023 with Safa Uygur, Sıla Coşkunoğlu and Deniz Kıvanç
- "Anti-Dumping Measures Which Are to Expire in 2023 and What Kind of Connotations This Might Have on Interested Parties", Lexology, January 12, 2023, with Su Başak Satır
- "Continuation of Anti-Dumping Measures Concerning The Baby Carriages and Parts of Baby Carriages", Lexology, January 13, 2023 with Su Başak Satır
- "New Regulation on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Was Adopted", Lexology, January 3, 2023 with Muhammed Safa Uygur
- “Be Warned! TCA Fines Türkiye’s Leading Electric Scooter Rental Company For False and Misleading Information (MARTI)”, Concurrences, December 23, 2022 with Muhammed Safa Uygur, Alper Karafil and Su Başak Satır
- Private Antitrust Litigation 2023, Turkey, Lexology, Getting the Deal Through, Law Business Research with Fevzi Toksoy and Bahadır Balkı
- Trade and Customs 2022, Turkey, Lexology, Getting the Deal Through, Law Business Research, with Fevzi Toksoy, Bahadır Balkı and Emin Kutay Çelebi
- The Private Competition Enforcement Review 2022, Turkey, The Law Reviews, with Fevzi Toksoy, Bahadır Balkı, and Sıla Coşkunoğlu
- The Public Competition Enforcement Review, 2022, Turkey, The Law Reviews, with Bahadır Balkı, Caner K. Çeşit and İdil Gizay Doğan
- Competition Compliance 2022, Turkey, Lexology, Getting the Deal Through, Law Business Research with Fevzi Toksoy, Bahadır Balkı and Caner K. Çeşit
- The International Trade Law Review, Turkey Chapter, 7th edition, 2021, The Law Reviews, Law Business Research Ltd., with Fevzi Toksoy and Emin Kutay Çelebi
- International Trade in Goods and Services in Turkey, 2020: Overview, Practical Law Country Guide in International Trade, with Fevzi Toksoy, Bahadır Balkı, Emin Kutay Çelebi, Kenan Güler, and Cüneyt Yetgin
- The Turkish Competition Authority Fines Auto Expertise Services Providers for Price Fixing and Supply Cartel (Auto / Çözüm / Dyno Max...)", Lexology, January 2021, with Caner K. Çeşit and Alper Karafil
- "No Excuses to Not Responding to Information Requests: Financial Institutions Case in Turkey", Kluwer Competition Law Blog, November 2020, with Caner K. Çeşit
- "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 Caner K. Çeşit and Alper Karafil
- "No Excuses to Not Responding to Information Requests: Financial Institutions Case in Turkey", Concurrences, July 2020, with Caner K. Çeşit
- "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 Caner K. Çeşit and Burak Buğrahan Sezer
- "Liberalization & Restriction of International Trade Amid COVID-19 – Update of Turkey’s Measures on Imports and Exports", Mondaq, May 2020, with Emin Kutay Çelebi
- "Turkish Data Protection Watchdog: If You Use Gmail, You Are Transferring Personal Data Abroad", Mondaq, September 2019
- "State-Owned Turkish Bank was under the Scrutiny of the Turkish Data Protection Authority",Mondaq, June 2019
- "Meal Card Companies under the TCA’s Scrutiny: From Full-Functionality to Collusion", Kluwer Competition Law Blog, May 2019, with Ayberk Kurt and Nabi Can Acar
- "Turkish Data Protection Watchdog: If You Use Gmail, You Are Transferring Personal Data Abroad", Mondaq, September 2019
- "State-Owned Turkish Bank was under the Scrutiny of the Turkish Data Protection Authority", Mondaq, June 2019
- "Recent Developments on Personal Data Protection in Turkey (April – May 2019): Microsoft's Data Breach, Facebook's Violation, and More", Mondaq, May 2019
- "USA to Denounce Turkey's Eligibility to GSP Beneficiary", Mondaq, March 2019, with Burak Buğrahan Sezer
- "Recent Trade Remedy Investigation in Turkey – Cooperating Parties' Victory", Mondaq, March 2019
- "Turkish Data Protection Authority Announced Data Leakage of a Dutch Bank", Mondaq, March 2019
- "Strict Standard of Proof in Anti-Dumping Investigations", Mondaq, March 2019
- "Turkish Data Protection Authority Announces the Procedure to be Taken by Companies in Cases of Data Breaches", Mondaq, February 2019
- "DPA's Decision on the Statute of Limitations for the Complaints", Mondaq, February 2019
- "Potential Trade Remedy Investigations in Turkey", Mondaq, January 2019
- "Turkey's Recent Trade Policy Investigations: Some Completed, Others Launched", Mondaq, January 2019
- "The Turkish Competition Authority's M&A Overview of 2018", Mondaq, January 2019, with Burak Buğrahan Sezer
- "Turkey Grants Various Zero-Tariff Rates Through Tariff Quotas", Mondaq, January 2019
- "Turkish Data Protection Watchdog Announced Starwood Guest Reservation Database Security Incident", Mondaq, January 2019
- International Trade 2024, Law and Practice, with M Fevzi Toksoy, Bahadır Balki and Deboleena Dutta
- The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guides Turkey International Trade 2024 with M. Fevzi Toksoy and Bahadır Balkı.
- Private Competition Enforcement 2024, Turkey, Lexology, with M. Fevzi Toksoy, Bahadır Balkı and Muhammed Safa Uygur.
- Unveiling the Countervailing Duty Investigations: From Turkish Lens, Lexology, with Reşat Eraksoy, Deboleena Dutta and Yavuz Kayhan47
- Private Antitrust Litigation 2025, Türkiye, Lexology, with Bahadır Balkı and Muhammed Safa Uygur
- Dominance and Monopolies 2024, Türkiye, Lexology, with Bahadır Balkı, Can Yıldız and Sera Erzene Yıldız.