Webinar: Turkish Competition Law Overview For 2023 - What Happened, What's Next?

Our webinar will reflect on major competition law developments in Turkey in 2023. We will focus on the following three issues:

1. Labor markets - No-poaching agreements. Parallel to the global trend, the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) has increased the antitrust scrutiny of the labor markets. In June 2023 the investigation involving 49 undertakings operating in diverse sectors was concluded with fines for 16 undertakings for entering into no-poaching agreements, whereas 11 undertakings agreed to settle. We will address main concerns and TCA's approach to anticompetitive no-poaching agreements.
   
   
2. Merger control - Technology undertaking exception.A special local turnover threshold exception introduced for the notification of concentrations involving technology undertakings and aimed at catching the killer acquisitions deserves a special attention. Although the implementation of this rule is rather new and the boundaries of "technology undertaking" are not