We are pleased to announce that Esin Aygün has joined Esin Attorney Partnership’s Competition practice group as Counsel. With more than twenty years of experience at the Turkish Competition Authority, particularly in areas of merger control, investigations and digital market regulation, Esin will strengthen the firm’s expertise in competition law.
About Esin Aygun
Before joining Esin Attorney Partnership, Esin served as Chief Advisor to the Turkish Competition Authority. In this role, she advised on strategic matters relating to digital platform services and e-commerce markets and contributed to the development of Türkiye’s regulatory framework for digital markets.
She is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Turkey Initiative at the George Washington University Competition and Innovation Lab and contributes to international competition law and policy initiatives as a Volunteer Competition Ambassador for the University of Oxford’s Value of Competition project.
Prior to her role as Chief Advisor, Esin served as Vice President of the Turkish Competition Authority, overseeing the coordination of six departments and leading the Authority’s work on external relations, competition advocacy and strategic development. She also previously served as Head of the Digital Markets Department, where she played an active role in significant competition law and merger control reviews concerning technology-driven markets and contributed to the modernization of Türkiye’s merger control regime.
Throughout her career at the Competition Authority, Esin has been involved in many of Türkiye’s most significant competition law matters across a broad range of sectors including digital platforms, telecommunications, banking and finance, automotive, healthcare and manufacturing. Her experience spans mergers and acquisitions, antitrust investigations, secondary legislation, sector inquiries, and competition policy.
Alongside her professional work, Esin is pursuing a PhD in Law at the University of East Anglia, where her academic research focuses on the regulation of digital markets and the interaction between competition law and emerging technologies.
On joining Esin Attorney Partnership, Esin commented: “I am delighted to join Esin Attorney Partnership and become a part of a team distinguished by its expertise, international perspective, and client-focused approach. Competition law is undergoing a significant transformation, particularly driven by developments in digital markets, technology, and regulation. I look forward to working closely with my colleagues and clients in this dynamic environment and to contributing to the continued growth of the firm’s Competition Law practice by drawing on the valuable experience I gained at the Competition Authority as well as my academic background.”
Eren Kurşun, Managing Partner of Esin Attorney Partnership, welcomed Esin’s appointment, saying: “We are excited about the value Esin will bring to our firm, given her distinguished career at the Turkish Competition Authority, culminating in her roles as Vice President and Chief Advisor. Her expertise, particularly in digital markets, whose importance in the global economy continues to grow, together with her involvement in landmark investigations, merger control reviews, and regulatory initiatives, makes her contribution truly unique. We are very pleased to welcome Esin to the firm.”
