About Gönenç Gürkaynak

Gönenç Gürkaynak is the founding partner of ELIG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law. He graduated from Ankara University, faculty of law in 1997 and was called to the Istanbul Bar in 1998. He received his LLM degree from Harvard Law School and is qualified to practise in Istanbul, New York, Brussels, and England and Wales (currently a non-practising solicitor). Before founding ELIG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law in 2005, Gönenç worked as an attorney at the Istanbul, New York and Brussels offices of a global law firm for more than eight years. He heads the firm’s competition law and regulatory department and has over 25 years’ experience of Turkish competition law counselling issues.