Uğur Akgün

Primary location

8 Finsbury Circus
London, EC2M 7EA, UK

Uğur Akgün

Vice President

Uğur specialises in applying industrial organisation theory in merger, abuse of dominance and dispute cases. He has substantial experience in developing theoretical models which inform on effects of mergers and regulatory actions. His work for merging parties on the European Commission’s Phase II investigations includes ASL/Arianespace, UTC/Goodrich and Posten/Post Danmark which involved conglomerate effects concerns and INEOS/SolVay and BHB/RioTinto JV in which production capacity and utilisation rates were considered as important elements of competition.

A notable experience was working for Aer Lingus during the EC’s review of Ryanair’s last hostile takeover bid which led to a prohibition decision and throughout the UK investigation by which Ryanair was required to divest most of its minority shareholding in Aer Lingus. He has also assisted Sky in reversing the Competition Commission’s provisional finding of dominance during movies on pay-TV market investigation.

In addition to cases before the European Commission, the CMA, the UK Competition Appeals Tribunal, ICSID and the WTO, Uğur has worked on cases in non-EU jurisdictions. For example, in Turkey he helped Mars and AFM, the two leading two cinema chains, gain approval of their merger. He has worked on projects in aerospace, airline, automotive parts, broadcasting transmission, film exhibition, chemical, electricity generation, energy retail, FMCG, grocery retail, mining, pay-TV, postal, telecommunication, tobacco and truck industries.

Uğur speaks English, Spanish and Turkish. His academic work was published in the Journal of Industrial Economics and the B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy.

Education

  • PhD Economics, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
  • MA Economics, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
  • BA Economics, Bogaziçi University

Cases

Ethniki / CVC

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Uber/Autocab

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London Stock Exchange Group/Refinitiv

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Cellnex/Arqiva

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BorgWarner/Delphi Technologies

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INEOS/BP

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Amazon/Deliveroo

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Liberty Global/Vodafone

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Interchange fees

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Pay TV

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Trucks

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State Aid

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Just Eat/Hungryhouse

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Arianespace/ASL

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Ice Cream (UK)

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Qualcomm/NXP

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News Articles

EC unconditionally clears CVC’s acquisition of Ethniki

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CMA unconditionally clears acquisition of Autocab by Uber

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London Stock Exchange Group’s acquisition of Refinitiv conditionally approved by the European Commission

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BorgWarner’s acquisition of Delphi Technologies approved in Europe and several other jurisdictions

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Commission clears INEOS acquisition of BP’s Chemicals Business

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CMA clears Amazon's minority investment in Deliveroo.

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CMA clears Cellnex’s acquisition of Arqiva

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Vodafone's acquisition of Liberty Global cable business gets European Commission approval.

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Abbott/Alere cleared by EC, subject to conditions

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ASL’s acquisition of Arianespace cleared by the EC, subject to conditions

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Publications

LSEG/Refinitiv: Modelling of efficiencies in non-horizontal mergers

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Wholesale price discrimination: Innovation incentives and upstream competition.

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Loyalty Discounts

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