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Mehmet Salan specializes in advising clients on matters pertaining to competition law, public policy, and regulation.
He holds an LL.M. degree from Tilburg University, where his studies primarily focused on competition law, privacy and data protection, and intellectual property law. His dissertation, entitled “Market Power Analysis in the Digital Era: The Case of Digital Multi-Product Ecosystems,” was supervised by Dr. Inge Graef and Jasper van den Boom.
He has been part of teams that successfully represented leading firms in cartel and abuse of dominance investigations conducted by national competition authorities and the European Commission. He has also advised on multinational merger control filings and has extensive experience providing day-to-day antitrust compliance guidance and strategic regulatory advice to top-tier companies across a variety of sectors, including technology, healthcare, FMCG, and finance. In addition to his advisory work, he has authored and co-authored several publications exploring the intersection of digital markets and competition law enforcement, published on leading platforms such as Concurrences, Wolters Kluwer Competition Law Blog, Lexology, and Mondaq.
He currently works at ACTECON, a leading competition and regulation consultancy, where he continues to assist clients in navigating complex antitrust and regulatory matters. Prior to rejoining ACTECON in 2025, he worked at Balcıoğlu Selçuk Eymirlioğlu Ardıyok Keki Attorney Partnership (BASEAK), the Turkish member firm of an international law firm, where he played a key role in high-profile competition law matters and multi-jurisdictional merger filings. Earlier in his career, he served as Group Legal Counsel for Antitrust at Koninklijke Philips N.V., overseeing antitrust risk across multiple jurisdictions including Europe, the United States, and China.
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Jean Monnet Scholarship (Merit Based Scholarship funded by the European Union)
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Tilburg University, 2022, LL.M.
Istanbul Bilgi University, 2017, LLB