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Seda ELİRİ provides advice to Turkish and multinational companies regarding competition law, international trade and regulatory projects. Ms. ELİRİ assists clients mainly on the investigations initiated by the Turkish Competition Authority and merger controls. She also assists clients regarding trade defense instruments with respect to anti-dumping investigations initiated by the Turkish Ministry of Trade.
Ms. ELİRİ is fluent in English.
EXPERIENCE & MAIN PROJECTS
- Ongoing investigation on cartel investigations in e-commerce markets, investigation on discriminatory practices in platform services.
- Merger control proceedings before the Turkish Competition Authority covering a number of industries, most notably market research services, shipbuilders, offshore plant producers.
- Competition Compliance Programs for the clients in a variety of sectors such as FinTech, e-commerce.
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Bilkent University, Ankara, LLB, 2022
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- “Turkish Competition Authority's Vigilance on Digital Markets: Examining Recent Initiatives and Their Implications”, Kluwer Competition Law Blog, May 30, 2023, with Erdem Aktekin, Nabi Can Acar and Mehmet Mikail Demir
- “The Turkish Competition Authority Concluded Its Preliminary Investigation Regarding Car Rental Services Market”, Concurrences, February 15, 2023 with Erdem Aktekin and Helin Yüksel
- "A New Age for Digital Markets in Turkey? The Draft Amendment to the Law No. 4054 on the Protection of Competition", Kluwer Competition Law Blog, October 2022, with Erdem Aktekin, Nabi Can Acar, Helin Yüksel and Mehmet Mikail Demir
- Preventing Data Portability as Abuse of Dominance: The TCA's Approach in Sahibinden Decision, Kluwer Competition Law Blog, March 17, 2024, with Erdem Aktekin and Helin Yüksel.
- Turkish Competition Authority Sheds Lights on Labor Markets, Kluwer, December 14, 2024, with Erdem Aktekin, Ayberk Kurt and Ece Ulusoy
- Foreign Investment Regulation, Lexology, January 2025, Türkiye, Bahadır Balkı and Erdem Aktekin
- TCA and Gun-Jumping: Insights into Foreign-to-Foreign Transactions, Lexology, March, 2025 Türkiye, with Ayberk Kurt
- The Turkish Competition Authority Decided That There Is No Procedural Benefit in Initiating Commintment Negotiations, Lexology, March 2025, with Erdem Aktekin
- TCA Identified Gun-jumping During Review of Subsequent Transaction (Broadcom/VMware decision), June 2025 Türkiye, with Hanna Stakhyeyeva and Ayberk Kurt