Duygu Bozkurt is actively involved in the Corporate Advisory, Mergers and Acquisitions, Regulatory Compliance, and Competition departments. She provides regular corporate consultations for national and multinational client companies, actively participates in merger and acquisition projects, supports international complex regulatory compliance projects, and manages corporate governance projects. In the Competition department, as the department leader, she provides consultancy on notification processes in merger and acquisition transactions, exemption and negative clearance applications, Competition Law Compliance Projects, review of contracts, and certain business and transaction assessments for compliance with Competition Law. She also provides consultancy in correspondence with the Competition Authority. Additionally, she offers Competition Law training to clients. The sectors for which she provides consultancy to clients from companies and international law firms include heavy industry, information technology, motor vehicles, cosmetics, e-commerce, aviation and defense industry, fast-moving consumer goods, energy and natural resources, media, technology, agriculture, textiles, and tobacco products. Duygu Bozkurt also has in-depth expertise in companies related to free zones and organized industrial zones.

Duygu Bozkurt graduated from Koç University Law School in 2014 and is proficient in advanced English. She completed her master's thesis in Competition Law at the University of Economics in 2023. Within the scope of her thesis, she wrote a book titled "Competition Violation through Best Price Guarantee in Online Commerce."
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Per article 367 of the Turkish Commercial Code No. 6102 (“TCC”), boards of directors of joint stock companies may transfer some authority related to the management of the company to some members of the board of directors or to third parties who are not members of the board of directors with an internal directive that it will prepare and put into effect.
While Coronavirus (“Covid-19”) is still affecting the world essentially, retail industry, as one of the most deeply affected fields in the commercial world by the reflections of the pandemic, should also be careful to pass their plans through the legal filter, in order to protect the health of employees, to satisfy customers and to get over this Covid-19 period with the least possible losses.
Turkey-specific information concerning the key legal issues that need to be considered when mediating a dispute.
Turkey-specific information concerning the key legal issues that need to be considered when drafting and enforcing governing law and jurisdiction clauses.
In commercial life, the undertakings' ability to carry out their activities freely without being under pressure, is important in terms of maintaining its presence in the market where the undertakings are operating, as well as the consumer's, who are the end buyers, ability to be able to benefit from the final product put on the market at fair pricing and with quality product balance.
2021 has been a ground-breaking year in terms of Turkish Competition Law due toimprovements in various aspects. Compared to the recent developments of the last 10 years, in2021, Turkish Competition Law practice has gained serious momentum only in one year, throughvarious Turkish Competition Board (“Board”) precedents and statutory amendments.
The 2023 Merger and Acquisition Outlook Report (the “Report”), prepared by the Economic Analysis and Research Department of the Competition Authority (the “Authority"), was published on January 5, 2024, on the Authority's website.