M Fevzi Toksoy

ACTECON Competition and Regulation Consultancy in collaboration with Hammonds LLP

Dr M Fevzi Toksoy is an EU law specialist and also an economist with master degrees from Istanbul (Marmara University EU Institute) and Brussels (ULB) in European Union law and economics and a PhD in EU competition law. Dr Toksoy's expertise is concentrated in EU and Turkish competition law, international trade remedies and, in particular, in M&A transactions. He is a partner of ACTECON and offers solutions to customers in competition investigations, merger clearances and preventive competition compliance programmes.

Dr Toksoy combines his competition law knowledge with broad experience in the economic aspects of antitrust matters across a wide range of industries, particularly in mergers and joint ventures, restrictive practices, distribution systems and abuses of dominant position, in areas such as automotive distribution, environment, energy, FMCG, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, telecommunications, airlines, financial services, media, electrical equipment, chemicals and engineering. Dr Toksoy has advised multinational companies in Turkey on aspects of their M&A transactions and is especially renowned with his experience in complicated merger control cases. He has successfully negotiated remedies with the Turkish Competition Authority in many complex merger cases.

His PhD thesis, titled 'Competition Law Aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions in the EU and Turkish Law - Does Turkey Call for a Merger Reform? The Answer and a Policy Proposal' tackles many problematic issues of the Turkish merger control regime. Dr Toksoy lectures on EU and Turkish competition law at Marmara University EU Institute and also lectures occasionally on mergers and acquisitions, international trade remedies and competition law aspects of EU and Turkish environmental law.