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Filiz Toprak Esin

Tel:: Work +90 212 354 00 24
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Web:: gun.av.tr/cv/filiz-toprak-esin/

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Corporate and M&A
Business Crimes and Anti-Corruption
Competition

Position

Managing Associate

Filiz Toprak Esin has been with the firm since 2006 and is a managing associate. Her practice is focused on corporate and M&A, competition and business crime and anti-corruption.

Filiz has been involved in numerous M&A transactions and assisted clients who have investments in Turkey on their continuing legal needs. .

She has broad experience in compliance matters including competition and white collar crime and she has assisted multinational clients in their fight against corruption and provides preventive advice on their compliance processes. She also represents senior executives before the relevant authorities and courts on white collar crime related investigations and court actions.

Languages

English, Turkish, French

Member

International Bar Association (IBA)
Ethics & Reputation Society (TEID), Coordinator of Internal Investigation Workgroup
Transparency International Turkey
Integrated Reporting Turkey
Istanbul Bar Association

Education

Leiden University, European and International Business Law, Faculty of Law, Leiden – The Netherlands (LL.M. 2009)
Galatasaray University, Faculty of Law, Istanbul (LL.B. 2006)

Turkey

Compliance

Within: Next Generation Partners

Filiz Toprak Esin - Gün + Partners

Within: Compliance

Gün + Partners provides advice on ‘strategy and practical day-to-day matters enabling businesses to effectively mitigate compliance risk’. Areas of expertise include anti-corruption, internal and external investigations, anti-bribery, fraud, sanctions and compliance matters. The team, led by Bariş Kalayci and Pelin Baysal, acts for large multinationals in sectors such as energy, TMT, construction, real estate and life sciences. Managing associate Filiz Toprak Esin is also recommended.

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Turkey: Special Purpose Acquisition Companies

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Quarterly Update on Trade Defense Cases inTurkey (September 2019)

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Turkey signs the Singapore Convention: A New Era in Enforceability of Mediation Agreements

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Constitutional Court’s Decision on Access Ban to News Content on Social Media

Turkish Constitutional Court granted a decision on April 17, 2019 regarding an applicant's claims on violation of his freedom of expression and press due to access ban of a news article (which is taken from a newspaper) posted by his social media account with the comment "Interesting confession from the judge of the July 22th investigation". The decision was published on the Official Gazette on May 15, 2019. The Constitutional Court accepted the applicant's claim by stating that the access ban of the news article violated the applicant's right to freedom of expression and press.

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Regulation on Radio, Television and On-Demand Broadcasts on the Internet

Regulation on Provision of Radio, Television and On-Demand Broadcasts on Internet Medium has been published on the Official Gazette of August 1, 2019. The main aim of the Regulation is to regulate the internet broadcasts.

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Quarterly Update on Trade Defense Cases in Turkey (June 2019)

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