E+H has announced a new management board, consisting of Partners Peter Winkler, Dieter Thalhammer, Alric Ofenheimer, Marco Steiner, and Jana Eichmeyer, with Thalhammer and Ofenheimer taking over operational management and serving as Managing Partners.

Former Schoenherr Of Counsel Olga Sipka has joined Kinstellar as a Special Counsel and new Head of the local Competition and Compliance practice in Belgrade.

TGS Baltic has successfully represented KredEx before Estonia’s Supreme Court in a dispute regarding COVID-19 pandemic-related extraordinary loans.

Integrites has successfully represented Epiroc in a safeguard investigation in Ukraine regarding the company's imports of three-cone drill bits into the country.

In its decision dated 18.08.2018 and numbered AT.40099, the European Union Commission [the "EU Commission"] fined Google with 4.34 billion Euros for abusing its dominant position through requiring smartphone makers to take a bundle of Google apps, preventing use of other versions of Android and concluding anti-competitive revenue share agreements. The General Court [the “Court”] dismissed Google’s appeal and upheld the Commission’s decision by slightly reducing the amount of fine to 4.125 billion EUR. This was recorded as the highest penalty ever imposed by European competition authorities.

This article aims to provide information regarding the ancillary restraints under Turkish Merger Control Regime and also analyses the Turkish Competition Board’s (“Board”) Vinmar/Arısan decision which provides insight into the Board’s approach to assessing the scope of ancillary restraints in merger cases and foreshadows potentially stricter scrutiny over such restrictions.