Özdirekcan Dündar Senocak Ak in partnership with Gide Loyrette Nouel

Competition law, Corporate law, Mergers and acquisitions, Foreign investments and Commercial transactions

Iklim Gülsün Aytekin is an Counsel in the Corporate/M&A and in the Competition teams.

Her activities cover mergers and acquisitions and investment structuring. In this context, she is regularly advising domestic and international investors in their acquisition and joint-venture projects in Turkey. She is also specialised in competition law (including representation of clients before the Competition Authority for - pre-investigations, investigations and hearings) and has a deep knowledge of Turkish and international competition law matters, relying on experience gathered through her involvement in numerous assignments in multijurisdictional competition notifications and on strong academic background acquired in the EU.

Most recently, Iklim has advised (i) Yves Rocher for the sale of its full shares in Flormar and (ii) Izocam, Turkish affiliate of Saint Gobain, for the acquisition of sole control of His Yalitim in Türkiye with regards to competition law and corporate law aspects.

Iklim is a graduate of the Faculty of Law at Marmara University (Istanbul). She obtained a Master 2 in European Union Law and European Policies from the Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-en-Provence, France) and an LLM in European Law from the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium). She has been a member of the Istanbul Bar since 2012.

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