Gönenç Gürkaynak is the managing and founding partner of ELIG, Attorneys-at-Law; a leading law firm in Istanbul, Turkey. He holds an LLM from Harvard Law School, and is qualified to practice in Istanbul, New York, Brussels, and England and Wales. Prior to establishing ELIG in 2004, Mr. Gürkaynak worked as an attorney at the Istanbul, New York, Brussels and again in Istanbul offices of a global law firm for more than eight years. In addition to practicing as an attorney for more than 17 years in different jurisdictions, he also holds a teaching position at undergraduate and graduate levels at two universities in the fields of law and economics, competition law and Anglo-American law, and he frequently gives lectures and speeches in numerous universities and academic platforms on Internet law, data protection matters, freedom of speech issues, competition law and anti-corruption law. He has more than 100 international and local articles published in English and Turkish, and two books, one published by the Turkish Competition Authority on “Prime Policy Objective of Competition Law From A Law & Economics Perspective”, and the other published by Legal Publishing on “Fundamental Concepts of Anglo-American Law”.