Global Guide To Competition Litigation 2015

The U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has reached a proposed settlement under which KKR & Co. GP LLC (“KKR”) would pay USD 250 million for repeated breaches of U.S. premerger notification rules. If approved, the fine would be the largest ever imposed for violations of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, the federal law requiring advance notification of certain large mergers and acquisitions, and more than 20 times the DOJ’s previous record.

The Turkish Competition Board has partially lifted commitments previously imposed on Yemeksepeti, finding that the online food delivery market has evolved from a near-monopoly to a competitive multi-player environment. This decision examines how binding commitments may be reassessed when market conditions materially change, and explores the treatment of most-favoured-nation clauses under both antitrust and abuse of dominance provisions.

The Turkish Competition Authority has issued several significant decisions in August 2026, including conditional approval of Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros., acceptance of commitments from ETS Tur regarding exclusivity practices in tourism, and administrative fines against Babymall for vertical restrictions. New investigations have been launched into TEVA's patent strategies and information exchange in plant protection markets, while the preliminary pharmaceutical sector inquiry highlights competiti

This article examines the Turkish Competition Board’s (“Board”) Yemek Sepeti Decision[1] (“Decision”), assessing a request for the removal of commitments made binding in 2021, under the “material change” condition of Article 43(4)(a) of Law No. 4054 on the Protection of Competition (“Law No. 4054”).

Rekabet Kurulu (“Kurul”), Paramount Skydance Corporation (“PARAMOUNT”) tarafından Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.’nin (“WARNER BROS”) tek kontrolünün devralınması işlemine, PARAMOUNT tarafından sunulan taahhütler çerçevesinde koşullu olarak izin verdi.

Merger control remedies are traditionally expected to address the competition concerns arising from a transaction. The conditional clearance mechanism allows a transaction to proceed subject to commitments designed to address those concerns, thereby preserving the economic and commercial benefits of the transaction while safeguarding effective competition. Although Türkiye, the European Union (“EU”) and the United States (“US”) apply broadly similar procedural criteria for assessing remedies, their substantive approaches to the acceptability and the scope of commitments differ significantly.

Competition enforcement has never been purely domestic, but the degree to which authorities today actively engage with their foreign counterparts, share investigative methodologies, and benchmark their findings against international practice has reached a level that would have seemed remarkable not long ago. Competition law and policy have, in parallel with globalisation, acquired an increasingly international character; cross-border cooperation between competition authorities is no longer confined to high-profile merger reviews or global cartel prosecutions, but permeates sector inquiries, investigations, and even the verification of individual arguments raised by investigated parties.

The Turkish Competition Authority (“TCA”) recently published its reasoned decision concerning a wide-ranging investigation into undertakings active in the production and sale of ready-mixed concrete in Aydın. The investigation concerned allegations of price fixing, customer and territorial allocation and resale price maintenance under Article 4 of Law No. 4054, which is broadly similar to Article 101 TFEU.

Her başlık kendi içinde özetlenmiş, ilgili olduğu yerlerde ilgili kural ya da mekanizmayı açıklayan bir Faydalı Bilgi notuyla tamamlanmıştır. Dipnotlarda, ele alınan her dosyaya ilişkin karar tarihi ve sayısı yer almaktadır.

This issue of the Competition & Trade Quarterly brings together the two parts of the bulletin. The competition section reviews eleven Turkish Competition Board decisions and announcements published during the second quarter of 2026 — merger control and joint-control assessments, conditional clearances secured through commitments, interim measures in the food sector, information exchange in labour markets, digital-platform commitments, and the criminal dimension of an ongoing cartel file.