Yiğit Alp Aslan

Introduction Under the Turkish Competition Board’s (“Board”) well-established case law, any deletion of data during an on-site inspection is deemed to constitute hindrance or complication of the on-site inspection and may lead to the imposition of an administrative monetary fine. In principle, (…)

Estimated reading time: 6 min I. Introduction The Turkish Competition Board (“Board”) initiated an investigation to determine whether Coca-Cola Satış ve Dağıtım A.Ş. (“CCSD”) had violated Articles 4 and 6 of Law No. 4054 on the Protection of Competition (“Law No. 4054”) by preventing the sale of competing products at points of sale and thereby creating de facto exclusivity through various practices.

Yiğit Alp Aslan is an associate at Erdem & Erdem, based in the firm’s Istanbul office. He provides consultancy services on competition investigations and mergers and acquisitions transactions within the scope of competition law. He also provides competition law consultancy to local and international clients in various sectors. He has experience in all stages of investigations before the Competition Authority, Aslan represents clients in merger and acquisition application processes.