RBB ECONOMICS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Managing Partner
- Managing Partner / London
Adrian Majumdar is the Managing Partner at RBB Economics. He has nearly 30 years' experience assessing competition matters and was formerly the Acting Chief Economist at the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), a predecessor of the UK Competition and Markets Authority.
Adrian is referenced in Who's Who as "an undisputable leader in the field" and "one of the absolute best" when it comes to complex investigations work. He was the Who's Who "Competition Economist of the Year" in both 2021 and 2022.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / London
Agata is a Senior Associate at RBB Economics, based in London. Since joining RBB in 2019, she has advised clients on merger and damages matters before the European Commission, the Competition and Markets Authority as well as many other competition authorities around the world (particularly in the context of multi-jurisdictional mergers).
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / Amsterdam
Aidan is a Senior Associate based in RBB's office in Amsterdam, where he has worked since October 2019.
He has since advised clients on a range of competition matters before the European Commission, various national competition authorities, most notably those in the Netherlands and the UK, as well as the EU General Court.
Prior to joining RBB, Aidan obtained an MSc in Industrial Economics and Markets from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, an MSc in Finance & Investments from Rotterdam School of Management, and a BSc in Economics and Business Economics from Erasmus School of Economics.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / London
Alastair Carr is a Senior Associate based in RBB's London office, where he has worked since September 2018. He has advised clients on a wide range of competition matters before the European Commission, the Competition and Markets Authority and other authorities and courts.
Alastair holds an MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate / London
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- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / Brussels
Alexander Eroshenko is a Senior Associate based in RBB's Brussels office. He joined RBB in 2018 holding an MSc in Economics from New Economic School. He has also completed competition courses at Bocconi University and Barcelona Graduate School of Economics.
Alexander speaks Russian and English.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Principal
- Associate Principal / London
Alexander Suchanek is an Associate Principal based in RBB Economics' London office. Alexander has over seven years of experience working as a competition economist. Over this period, he has advised on a range of competition issues, with a principle focus on Phase II merger investigations raising horizontal, vertical, and conglomerate concerns, in the UK and at the European Union level.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate / London
Alexander is a Senior Associate based in RBB's London office. He has advised clients on a wide range of competition matters before the European Commission, as well as the national competition authorities in the Netherlands and United Kingdom.
Alexander holds an MSc in Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Prior to joining RBB, Alexander gained experience in competition economics at the European Commission and PwC.
A Dutch national, Alexander is fluent in Dutch and English.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Principal
- Associate Principal / Brussels
Alexandre is an Associate Principal based in RBB's Brussels office. He has extensive experience in the economic assessment of mergers, having advised on numerous Phase II investigations before the European Commission. He also works regularly on damage estimations in follow-on litigations.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / London
Alice is a Senior Associate at RBB Economics, based in London. She holds a BSc and MSc in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University in Milan and a master in Competition and Market Regulation from Barcelona School of Economics. Since joining RBB Economics in 2019, Alice has worked on a wide range of competition matters before the European Commission, and before national competition authorities, including in the UK and Australia.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / Düsseldorf
Alina is a Senior Associate based in the Düsseldorf office of RBB Economics, after starting at RBB's office in London in 2018. Alina holds an M.Sc. in Economics and Social Science from Bocconi University and a B.Sc. in Economics and Business Economics from Maastricht University.
Anabelí is a Senior Associate based in RBB's Madrid office. She has advised clients on different regulatory, intellectual property rights and competition matters, including mergers, cartel investigations, abuse of dominance cases, and follow-on damages litigations. Her experience spans across various sectors and jurisdictions, most notably proceedings before the European Commission, the National Court of Spain, and the competition authority of Spain.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner / Düsseldorf
Annabelle Jochem is a Partner based in the Düsseldorf office of RBB Economics. She joined RBB in 2019, having already worked several years as an economic consultant specialised on competition matters in Berlin, Düsseldorf and Brussels.
Annabelle holds an MSc in Economic Studies with a focus on Competition and Regulation from Maastricht University.
She is recognised as leading competition expert by Who's Who Legal.
Job Titles:
- Associate Principal / Brussels
Annabelle is an Associate Principal based in RBB's Brussels office. She has significant experience in merger assessment, having worked on many investigations raising horizontal, vertical and conglomerate concerns. She also advised clients on other competition concerns including abuse of dominance, cartels and follow-on damages.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Principal
- Associate Principal / London
Anton is an Associate Principal at RBB Economics and is based in London. Since 2015, he has been advising on a wide spectrum of economic matters within the realms of competition and regulation policy. His expertise in competition economics spans antitrust investigations, damages litigations, market studies and mergers, including horizontal and vertical issues.
Anton has worked on competition matters before the European Commission, the UK's Competition and Market Authority and Payment Systems Regulator and competition authorities in Russia, Brazil and India.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Principal
- Associate Principal / Paris
Apolline is an Associate Principal based in the Paris office. Since 2017, she has been advising on a wide range of economic issues before the European Commission and national authorities, most notably in France. Her experience includes merger investigations raising both horizontal and conglomerate concerns, follow-on damages litigations and more recently, work related to the implementation of the Digital Markets Act.
A French national, Apolline is fluent in English and French.
Job Titles:
- Associate Principal / London
Arvydas Vidžiūnas is an Associate Principal based in RBB's London office. He has over 10 years of experience in working on competition and regulatory matters across a wide range of sectors. He has advised on a wide variety of matters, including mergers, abuse of dominance cases and follow-on damages litigations.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner / Brussels & Paris
Benoît Durand is a Partner at RBB Economics, based in Brussels and Paris. He has over 20 years of experience in competition economics, and has featured in the Global Elite Thought Leaders list in Who's Who since 2018. He is described in Who's Who as "a very talented economist", and "a favourite among clients thanks to his ability to simplify complex ideas and his excellent ability to answer clients' questions.".
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / London
Calum is a Senior Associate based in RBB's London office. He joined RBB in 2019 after completing an MPhil in Economics at the University of Cambridge.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / Stockholm
Candice Townsend is a Senior Associate at RBB Economics, based in the Stockholm office. She holds a Masters degree in Economics and a BA Law degree from the University of Stellenbosch.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Principal
- Associate Principal / Madrid
Casilda is an Associate Principal based in RBB's Madrid Office. Since joining RBB in 2015, Casilda has advised clients on wide array of matters, including mergers, competition law infringements, damages, regulation, and intellectual property. She has worked in cases before the European Commission and domestic competition authorities, including Spain, the UK, Turkey, Belgium, and South Africa. She also has significant experience providing expert testimony before national courts of justice.
Job Titles:
- Principal
- Principal / Sydney
Chris Hart is a Principal based in RBB's Sydney office. Since joining the firm in 2015, he has advised clients on a variety of competition matters before the Australian, Chinese, Namibian, South African and UK competition authorities. Chris is a member of the Consumer and Competition Committee of the Business Law Section of the Australian Law Council.
Job Titles:
- Principal
- Principal / Melbourne
Chris Whelan is a Principal at RBB Economics based in Melbourne, and joined the firm in April 2011. He has 15 years of economic consulting experience based in Melbourne and London. Chris co-authored the research report "Cost Pass-Through: Theory, Measurement & Potential Policy Implications", published by the UK Competition and Markets Authority in 2014 and is listed in Who's Who Legal.
Chris gained a First Class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and holds an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner / Düsseldorf & London
Christian Ehmer is a Partner at RBB Economics. Having joined the firm in 2004, he has twenty years' experience in providing economic advice on competition matters. Christian has led RBB Economics teams on a wide range of litigation matters and competition law investigations, across a broad spectrum of industries and in a variety of jurisdictions.
Dan Gore is a partner based in RBB's London office with 20 years' experience in competition economics consultancy. He is a co-author of The Economic Assessment of Mergers under European Competition Law (Cambridge University Press 2013, translated and republished by Law Press China 2017).
Dan has appeared in the Who's Who Legal Future Leaders and Thought Leaders surveys of competition economists, which noted his "great depth of knowledge and strong grasp of the details" and "technical excellence" in merger analysis.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / Johannesburg
Daniela is a Senior Associate based in RBB's Johannesburg office. She joined RBB in 2020, after completing a Master of Economic Science degree (with distinction) at the University of the Witwatersrand. Daniela also holds a bachelor's degree in economics and corporate finance, with first-class honours in economics and econometrics, from the same university.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate / Brussels
David is a Senior Associate based in RBB's Brussels office. He advises clients in the context of mergers, litigations and other competition matters before the European Commission, national competition authorities and courts.
His expertise covers various industries, including automotive, broadcasting, payment systems, electricity distribution, retail and private security.
David holds an MSc in Economics from the University of Liege. He is fluent in English and Italian.
Job Titles:
- Principal
- Principal / Madrid
Dean is a Principal based in RBB's Madrid office with over ten years' experience. He has advised clients on numerous high-profile merger and abuse of dominance cases before the European Commission and CMA, particularly in tender markets and the pharmaceutical sector.
He holds an MSc in Economics from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Senior Associate / London
Dr David Henriques is a consultant competition economist based in RBB's London office. Prior to joining RBB in 2020, he was an economist at Ofcom, having advised on several competition and regulatory matters for nearly eight years. David has published articles at the London School of Economics, the European Central Bank, Ofcom and in internationally peer-reviewed journals, such as: Information Economics and Policy; the Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade; Review of Network Economics; and Telecommunications Policy. Sources praise his ability to create a "novel and interest approach to addressing the competition issues associated with sports rights auctions".
Dr Ethel Fonseca joined RBB Economics in 2008 and is a Partner based in London. Ethel is described in Who's Who Legal as "an excellent economist" who is "very easy to work with". Clients credit her "great understanding of what, when and how lawyers need things" as a key to her success.
Having specialised in applied microeconomics and econometrics during her PhD studies, Ethel has particular expertise in the application of quantitative techniques to the assessment of competition policy issues.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Principal
- Associate Principal / Madrid
Dr J. Roberto Parra Segura is an Associate Principal based in the Madrid office of RBB Economics. He has more than ten years of experience in competition economics and holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge, an MSc in Economics from the University of Essex, and both a Master in Business Economics and a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from ITESM. Roberto has lectured graduate and undergraduate courses on mathematics, statistics, physics and economics at these universities, and has presented his work on game theory and econometrics at multiple universities and institutions in Mexico, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and China. The Faculty of Economics of the University of Cambridge awarded Roberto the Fellowship in Industry in 2009 and the Stevenson Prize as the best Fellow in 2010. A Mexican national, Roberto is fluent in English and Spanish.
Job Titles:
- Global Elite Thought Leader
- Principal / Düsseldorf & Brussels
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner / Brussels
Dr Vitaly Pruzhansky is a Partner in RBB's Brussels office. He has over 15 years of consulting experience, spanning a wide range of competition policy matters. Vitaly has worked on mergers and acquisitions raising both horizontal and vertical issues and advised companies under the European Articles 101 and 102 provisions, as well as their national analogues.
His clients come from a broad range of sectors, including banking and insurance, chemicals, consumer electronics, energy, FMCG, industrial consumables, metals and mining, telecommunications and media, military equipment, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, software and transport.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / Stockholm
Else Christensen is a Senior Associate at RBB Economics, based in Stockholm. She relocated to Stockholm in October 2022 having joined the Dusseldorf office in February 2019.
She has advised clients on a wide variety of competition matters before the European Commission as well as many other competition authorities around the world. Else holds a PhD in Economics from LMU Munich and an MSc in Mathematics-Economics from Aarhus University, she is a native Danish speaker and fluent in English.
Enrique Cañizares is a Partner of RBB Economics based in RBB's Madrid office. He has been working as an economic consultant since 2000. He specialises in all aspects of competition economics, in particular mergers, Article 101 and 102 investigations, and antitrust damages litigation. His expertise also spans to State aid and regulatory and intellectual property issues. He has provided expert testimony before national and international courts of justice and arbitration in a wide array of cases.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / Madrid
Esmeralda Jesoirens is a senior associate, based in the Madrid office. She holds an M.Sc. in Economics and B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Gent, Belgium. Before joining RBB, Esmeralda worked as a Senior Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers where she provided economic advice related to regulated industries.
Etienne Pfister is a Partner at RBB Economics, based in Paris, and has over 15 years of experience in competition economics. Before joining RBB in 2022, Etienne was the Chief Economist of the French Competition Authority.
He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Paris School of Economics.
A French national, Etienne is fluent in French and English.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Principal
- Associate Principal / Milan
Francesca Amore is an Associate Principal at RBB Economics, based in Milan.
Francesca joined RBB in 2023 after having spent five years working at another leading economic consultancy in London and three years at the competition team of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the regulator of financial services in the UK. She also has experience as a consultant in competition and policy evaluations in Italy. Francesca holds an MSc in Economics from Bocconi University and an MSc in Competition and Market Regulation from Barcelona School of Economics.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Principal
- Associate Principal / Madrid
Francisco Penas is an Associate Principal based in Madrid office. He joined RBB in 2016 after completing a MSc in Competition and Market Regulation at Barcelona School of Economics and a BSc in Economics at the University of Basque Country. Francisco has advised clients on a variety of competition issues, including mergers and acquisitions, cartel investigation, market inquiries and litigation matters. He has worked on cases before the European Commission, as well as national competition authorities. Francisco has also provided expert testimony in a wide array of cases before Spanish national courts of justice. A Spanish national, Francisco is fluent in Spanish, English and Basque.
Job Titles:
- Partner / Melbourne & Sydney
George is a Partner at RBB Economics in Melbourne. He has worked as a micro-economist for 30 years in the public and private sector in worked in both Australia and the UK.
George has acted as an expert economist in competition and regulatory proceedings before the Federal Court of Australia, the Australian Competition Tribunal and State Supreme Courts as well as in arbitrations. He has also participated in "hot tubs" with other expert economists. He is listed in Who's Who Legal as a leading competition economist in Australia and is a member of the Competition and Consumer Committee (Business Law Section) of the Law Council of Australia.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate / London
Job Titles:
- Principal
- Principal / London
George Tucker is a Principal based in the London office of RBB Economics. He has advised clients on a wide range of issues in litigation and competition authority investigations, including restrictive practices, abuse of dominance and merger control. Before joining RBB in 2015, George worked in the Chief Economist Team of the European Commission's DG Competition
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / Amsterdam
Georgi Panev is a Senior Associate based in the Dutch office of RBB Economics. He has advised clients in relation to multi-jurisdictional, high-profile merger investigations raising both horizontal and non-horizontal concerns, as well as in the context of abuse of dominance cases and horizontal agreements.
Prior to joining RBB, Georgi completed a MSc in Economics and a BSc in Economics and Business at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Georgi is a native Bulgarian speaker and is fluent in English.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Associate Principal / Brussels
Hendrik Meder is an Associate Principle at RBB Economics based in Brussels. He has nearly 10 years' experience in competition economics and empirical assessment in the public and private sector.
Prior to joining RBB in early 2024, Hendrik was a member of the Chief Economist Team at the Directorate General for Competition, European Commission. He advised case teams and the Chief Economist in economic and quantitative assessments of several high-profile mergers and antitrust cases.
Hendrik holds a PhD from the KU Leuven and as a German national, he is fluent in German and English.
Job Titles:
- Associate Principal / London
- Associate Principal in RBB 's London
Hillary is an Associate Principal in RBB's London office. He has extensive experience in providing user-friendly advice on a wide range of competition and regulatory policy matters. These include complex Phase II mergers, follow-on damages litigation, competition law investigations and regulatory risk assessments.
Iestyn is a Partner in RBB's London office. He has provided competition economics advice to clients across a diverse set of issues and market settings for over 20 years. His practice has increasingly focused on providing expert economic evidence in litigation cases - for claimants and defendants, in respect of standalone and follow-on cases.
Iestyn has a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics. Before embarking on his consulting career, he was an academic economist.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / Johannesburg
Imraan Yusuf is a Senior Associate at RBB Economics, based in the Johannesburg office. He holds a Masters degree in Economics from the University of the Witwatersrand, and an Honours degree in Economics and a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Economics and Finance from the University of Cape Town. He joined RBB at the beginning of 2015, directly after completing his Honours degree.
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- Associate Principal / Melbourne
- Associate Principal in RBB 's Melbourne
Jack Mays is an Associate Principal in RBB's Melbourne office. Jack has worked on a wide range of competition matters including mergers, horizontal agreements, abuse of dominance cases and regulatory issues. Jack's recent experience includes advising the notifying parties in relation to four merger authorisation applications made to the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission. Since first joining RBB's London office in 2014, Jack has also worked on a number of cases involving the European Commission and the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), as well as on competition cases in China, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway, Papua New Guinea, South Africa and Sweden.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / London
Jack Thomas is a Senior Associate based in the London office of RBB Economics. Jack has worked on a wide range of competition matters before the European Commission, and before national competition authorities, including in the UK and Australia.
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- Senior Associate / London
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- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / London
Jackson is a Senior Associate based in RBB's London office, having transferred from RBB's Melbourne office in 2022. He has advised on a wide range of competition matters since joining the firm in 2019.
Prior to joining RBB, Jackson earned a first class Honours degree in Economics from Monash University in Melbourne.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Principal
- Associate Principal / Johannesburg
Jacob is an Associate Principal based in RBB's Johannesburg office. Since joining RBB in 2017, Jacob has advised clients in relation to a wide range of competition law investigations and litigations across Africa, as well as in Australia and Europe. Jacob has also provided expert economic testimony under cross-examination before the South African Competition Tribunal.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / London
Jakub Redlicki is a Senior Associate at RBB Economics, based in London.
Since joining RBB in 2018, Jakub has advised clients on a wide range of competition matters including mergers, cartels and abuse of dominance investigations.
Jakub holds a DPhil (PhD) in Economics from the University of Oxford. He previously completed an MPhil in Economics and a BA in Economics and Management, both at the University of Oxford as well. His research has been published in the Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization.
Job Titles:
- Principal
- Principal / London
James Hill is a Principal based in the London office of RBB Economics, where he has worked since April 2013. Since joining RBB, James has advised on a wide variety of competition cases before the European Commission, domestic competition authorities and courts including in the UK, China, France, Switzerland, Turkey and South Africa.
James holds an MSc in Economics from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, and a first class honours degree in Economics from the University of Newcastle.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner / Brussels
Jan Yngve Sand is a Partner at RBB Economics based in Oslo and has over 20 years of experience in competition economics. Prior to joining RBB in May 2023, Jan was the Chief Economist at the Norwegian Competition Authority (NCA). In that position, he was the chief economic advisor to the Director General of the NCA in relation to decisions on mergers and behavioural practices.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / London
Jane is a Senior Associate based in RBB's London office. She joined RBB in 2020 after completing a Master of Science in Economics for Development at the University of Oxford.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / London
Jasmine Peng is a Senior Associate based in RBB's London office. Since joining RBB in 2018, Jasmine has advised clients on a wide range of competition matters including mergers, cartels, abuse of dominance investigations and market studies.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate / Amsterdam
- Senior Associate in RBB 's Amsterdam
Jennifer is a Senior Associate in RBB's Amsterdam office, having relocated from the RBB Johannesburg office in South Africa. Prior to joining RBB in 2018, she completed her Undergrad and Master's degree in Economics at the University of Stellenbosch.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Principal
- Associate Principal / Stockholm
Jimmy Gårdebrink is an Associate Principal based in RBB's Stockholm office. He has extensive experience in merger assessment, having worked on having worked on many in-depth Phase II investigations raising horizontal, vertical and conglomerate concerns. He has also advised on a wide variety of other matters, including abuse of dominance cases, anticompetitive agreements, cartel investigations and follow-on damages litigations.
Joan is a Partner based in RBB's Brussels office. He has extensive experience in the economic assessment of mergers, having advised on numerous Phase II investigations before the European Commission, including several of the most high-profile cases of the past decade.
He also works regularly on abuse of dominance cases, horizontal agreements, vertical restraints, and damage estimations, and has given expert testimony before national and arbitration courts on these topics. He has been listed as a "Future Leader" by Who's Who Legal every year since 2017, where he has been described as "one of the rising stars" and "really, really outstanding".
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / London
Johannes Mattke is a Senior Associate at RBB Economics, based in the firm's London office. He has over five years of experience working as a competition economist. Johannes holds a bachelor's and master's degree in economics from the University of Amsterdam. He is fluent in English and his native language, German.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / Brussels
Joost is a Senior Associate based in RBB's Brussels office. Since joining RBB in 2019, Joost has advised clients on a wide range of competition matters before the European Commission, as well as national competition authorities in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Belgium and China.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / Brussels
João Matias is a Senior Associate based in the Brussels office of RBB Economics. He joined the firm in 2019.
João has advised on a wide range of economic issues before the European Commission, the Competition and Markets Authority in the UK and other national authorities, most notably in Portugal. His experience includes horizontal and vertical mergers, abuses of dominance and anticompetitive agreements.
He holds a masters and undergraduate degrees in Economics from Nova SBE.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Principal
- Associate Principal / London
Julian Gropp is an Associate Principal at RBB Economics, based in London. He re-joined RBB in 2021 having spent three years working at another leading economic consultancy in the US.
Julie is a Senior Associate based the RBB's Paris office.
Since joining RBB in 2017, she has been advising clients on various competition issues before the European Commission and national authorities. Her experience includes merger cases raising horizontal, conglomerate, and vertical concerns. She has also advised clients on cartel investigations and follow-on damages cases.
Katie is a Partner based in RBB's London office. She has twenty years' experience working as a competition economist across a broad range of matters including mergers, litigation, Competition Act investigations and market studies. A former Economics Director at Ofcom, she has significant regulatory expertise and a deep understanding of telecoms and digital markets.
An experienced testifying expert, Katie has given evidence in various courts including the UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT). Previously the Head of Econometrics at the Office of Fair Trading (a predecessor of the UK Competition and Markets Authority), Katie has significant expertise in the application of quantitative techniques to competition policy questions.
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- Senior Associate / Düsseldorf
- Senior Associate in RBB 's Du
Kirk is a Senior Associate in RBB's Düsseldorf office. At RBB he has advised clients on a wide range of competition matters including cartel investigations, mergers and litigation. He has provided advice for use with the European Commission, national competition authorities and courts in Europe, Australia, Russia, Japan and South Africa. Kirk holds a PhD in Economics from Oxford University.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Principal
- Associate Principal / London
Kryštof Krotil is an Associate Principal based in RBB's London office. He has extensive experience in merger assessment, having worked on many in-depth Phase II investigations raising horizontal, vertical and conglomerate concerns. He has also advised on a wide variety of other matters, including abuse of dominance cases, anticompetitive agreements, cartel investigations and follow-on damages litigations.
A Czech national, Kryštof is fluent in Czech and English.
Laure Schulz is a Partner in RBB Economics' Paris office. She has fifteen years of experience in competition economics, both in the public sector and in private practice. Prior to joining RBB in 2016, she was a case handler at the French Competition Authority (FCA) in the Chief Economist Team.
Laure graduated from ENSAE ParisTech, where she has been giving lectures in competition economics during a number of years, and holds a Master in Economics from the Paris School of Economics. She is also a member of the W@Competition Executive Committee in France.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / Johannesburg
Lauren is a Senior Associate based in RBB's Johannesburg office. She holds an MSc in Behavioural Economics from the University of Nottingham and a BSc in Computer Science and Economics, with Honours in Economics, from the University of Cape Town. She joined RBB in January 2018, after completing her Masters degree.
Lishuyu is a Senior Associate at RBB Economics, based in Brussels. Since joining RBB in 2019, Lishuyu has advised clients on a wide range of competition matters before the European Commission, as well as various national competition authorities. She holds an MSc in Economics of Markets and Organization from the Toulouse School of Economics. A Chinese national, Lishuyu is fluent in Mandarin, English and French.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / Brussels
Luc is a Senior Associate at RBB Economics, based in Brussels. Since joining RBB in 2020, he has advised clients on mergers and damages cases before the European Commission, the French Competition Authority and other national authorities.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / Madrid
Lucas Azpiazu is a Senior Associate at RBB Economics, based in Madrid. He holds an MSc in Economics from the Carlos III University of Madrid and a BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University College of London. Lucas has worked on a wide range of competition matters before the European Commission, as well as several national competition authorities.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / London
Lucy Holden is a Senior Associate based in RBB's London office. Since joining RBB in 2018, Lucy has advised clients on matters before the European Commission and various national competition authorities and courts, including the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT).
Léa is a Senior Associate based in the Paris office of RBB Economics, where she has worked since 2018. Her experience includes merger assessments, abuse of dominant position, horizontal and vertical agreements, as well as follow-on damages.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Principal
- Associate Principal / Paris
Manuel Marfan is an Associate Principal based in the Paris office of RBB Economics, where he has worked since 2016.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / Düsseldorf
Mark Brisske is a Senior Associate based in the Düsseldorf office of RBB Economics. Since joining RBB in 2020, he has advised clients on a variety of complex competition matters, including merger investigations and follow-on damages litigation.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate / London
Marta has since advised clients on cases before the European Commission, as well as domestic competition authorities in the UK, South Africa, India, Croatia and Serbia. She has experience with a wide range of competition matters, including mergers raising both horizontal and non-horizontal issues and abuse of dominance assessments.
Marta Gligorijević is a Senior Associate based in the London office of RBB Economics. She joined RBB Economics in February 2020, after completing her BSc and MSc in Economics at UCL.
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- Senior Associate / Amsterdam
A Turkish national, Meltem is fluent in Turkish and English.
Meltem Bayramlı is a Senior Associate based in RBB's office in Amsterdam. She has over ten years of experience as a consultant in competition economics. She has advised clients in notable multijurisdictional merger investigations in front of the European Commission and other national authorities. She has experience in many aspects of competition law and has worked on cases across various sectors.
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- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / Düsseldorf
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- Associate
- Principal
- Associate Principal / London & Paris
Meryem is a seasoned Associate Principal who brings extensive experience to RBB's London office. She joined the firm in 2016 and previously worked out of RBB's Paris office before relocating to London in 2022.
With over a decade of experience advising firms on competition economics issues, Meryem gained valuable insights into a wide range of industries and competition matters in various jurisdictions. Her expertise and fluency in both French and English have enabled her to effectively serve clients from diverse backgrounds.
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- Senior Associate / Johannesburg
- Senior Associate in RBB 's Johannesburg
Michael is a Senior Associate in RBB's Johannesburg office. He joined RBB in 2016 after completing an Honours degree in Economic Science at the University of Witwatersrand. In 2019 he spent a year away from RBB obtaining a Master's degree in specialised economic analysis in Competition and Market Regulation at the Barcelona School of Economics. Michael returned to the RBB Johannesburg office in 2020.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / London
Michaela is a Senior Associate based in RBB's London office. She has advised clients across a range of competition matters, including merger control, abuse of dominance investigations, cartel damages claims and other litigation.
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- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / Milan
Michele is a Senior Associate at RBB Economics, based in Milan. He holds an MSc in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University in Milan. Since joining RBB Economics in 2019, Michele has worked on a wide range of competition matters before the European Commission, as well as various national competition authorities, including in the UK, France, South Africa, India and Australia.
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- Partner
- Partner / Brussels & Madrid
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- Associate Principal / Milan & Brussels
Mihael Raveggi has over twenty years of experience advising clients on EU and multi-jurisdictional mergers across a wide range of industries.
Mihael is recognised as "an authority on high-profile EU mergers and Article 101 and 102 cases" by the GCR's future leaders. Sources call him "a standout" who is "very responsive, great to work with and always on top of the data". Mihael Raveggi has joined RBB Economics in 2002 and is an Associate Principal in the Milan office.
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- Associate Principal / Düsseldorf
Milan is an Associate Principal based in RBB Economics' Dusseldorf office. He has over eight years of experience working as a competition economist. His expertise in competition economics includes antitrust investigations, private enforcement litigations, market studies and Phase II mergers, including horizontal and vertical issues.
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- Associate
- Principal
- Associate Principal / London
Mohsin Raza is an Associate Principal based in the London office of RBB Economics. He joined the firm in 2016 after completing an MSc in Economics (with distinction) at University College London. Mohsin also holds a first-class honours undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Birmingham.
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- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / London
Natalie is a Senior Associate based in RBB's London office. Since joining RBB in 2016, she has advised on issues across a variety of competition economics sectors, focusing on vertical and horizontal merger reviews in various jurisdictions including the European Commission, the CMA in the UK and national competition authorities in 15 other jurisdictions worldwide.
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- Principal / Stockholm
- Principal at the RBB Stockholm
Niklas Strand is a Principal at the RBB Stockholm office. He has worked in the field of competition economics for 25 years' and has experience of presenting economic testimony on behalf of clients involved in complex matters. He has appeared as an expert witness in arbitration panels and in Swedish courts on a number of high-profile cases.
Niklas is listed as a National Leader by Who's Who Legal 2023 which states that "Niklas Strand highly sought after by clients from a diverse range of sectors"
Niklas holds a Ph.D. from the Stockholm School of Economics and he has published in academic journals on e.g. pricing, merger simulation, and relevant market definition.
Job Titles:
- Principal
- Principal / Brussels
Nuno Alvim is a Principal based in the Brussels office of RBB Economics. He has joined the firm in 2012. He holds a PhD in Economics from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and an undergraduate degree in Economics from NOVA SBE. He has experience across all areas of competition law and has lectured in microeconomics and economics of competition.
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- Partner / London & Johannesburg
Patrick Smith applies economics, econometrics and industrial expertise to competition policy, litigation and arbitration. He has testified and consulted to parties, agencies and interveners in high-profile, complex and multi-jurisdictional proceedings over the past 20 years.
Patrick has acted as an expert witness in investigations of mergers, horizontal and vertical agreements, and abuse of dominance inquiries, covering excessive pricing, price discrimination, margin squeeze and predation, as well as in the assessment of pricing, profitability valuation and damages estimation within mediation, dispute resolution, and international arbitration.
Paul Hutchinson joined RBB Economics in 2010 and is a Partner in our London office. Paul has over fifteen years' experience as a competition economist and has worked on competition matters including mergers, anti-competitive agreements, abuse of dominance cases and market investigations. Prior to joining RBB Paul worked for the OFT where he led the economic analysis of numerous high-profile merger cases raising horizontal, vertical, and conglomerate issues.
Paul's experience spans a wide range of sectors, including telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, software services transport, retailing, consumer electronics, and fast-moving consumer goods. Paul is featured in Who's Who Legal, as a leading expert in the field of competition economics.
Paul is a Partner in RBB's London office, having joined the firm in 2020. Paul has worked as a competition economist for nearly 20 years, in consultancy, regulators and industry. He has particular expertise in UK merger control, having worked for much of the last decade at the CMA and its predecessor, the CC.
Paul has experience of a wide range of sectors, but has been particularly active in broadcasting and telecommunications, energy, and retail mergers. He has dealt with horizontal, vertical and conglomerate mergers in the UK, Europe and beyond.
Paul is a Principal in RBB's London office. He is recognised in Who's Who Legal as a competition expert and is a Visiting Fellow at King's College London where he is course director of the Postgraduate Diploma in Economics for Competition Law. Paul has extensive experience on merger and abuse of dominance cases before the European Commission and UK Competition and Markets Authority.
Paul holds an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford and studied Economics at the University of Warwick and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
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- Associate Principal / Helsinki
Paula Mäkelä has over 6 years' of experience in competition economics, including as an economic consultant. Before joining RBB in 2022, Paula was a Principal Economist at the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority.
Paula holds a PhD from Aalto University in Helsinki. She completed part of her PhD studies as a Fulbright Graduate Grantee at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, USA.
Paula is a Finnish national and speaks fluent Finnish and English.
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- Partner
- Partner / Stockholm
Petter is a Partner at RBB Economics, based in Stockholm and primarily works across the Nordics. He has more than 20 years of experience in competition economics where he has been drafting reports and presenting results in high-stakes cases in a wide range of industries. Petter is listed as Thought Leader by Who's Who Legal where he is described by his clients as "the shining star of competition economics" and with "laser-sharp analytical skills which he deploys in a pragmatic and effective way".
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- Partner
- Partner / London & Johannesburg
Richard Murgatroyd is a Partner at RBB Economics. He joined the firm in 2004 and has been a Partner since 2011. Richard has led RBB Economics teams on wide range of litigation matters and competition law investigations, across a wide range of industries and in a variety of jurisdictions.
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- Associate
- Principal
- Associate Principal / Johannesburg
Ricky Mann is an Associate Principal based in the RBB's Johannesburg office. Since joining RBB, Ricky has worked on a variety of competition law matters before competition authorities in Africa, the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia. Ricky has also worked on a wide range of litigations across Africa including in the context of Constitutional Law disputes that require expert economic advice.
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- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / Brussels
Ruben Savelkoul is a Senior Associate based in RBB's Brussels office. He has advised clients on a range of competition matters including mergers and abuse of dominance investigations.
Ruben holds a PhD in Economics and an MSc of Advanced Studies in Economics, both from KU Leuven. Prior to joining RBB in 2023, he gained experience in competition economics working for another leading economic consultancy.
A Belgian national, Ruben is fluent in Dutch and English.
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- Associate Principal / London
- Associate Principal in RBB 's London
Severin Haugg is an Associate Principal in RBB's London office, where he has worked since joining RBB in 2015. Over this period, he has advised on a range of competition issues, with a principle focus on private follow-on damage litigation cases before courts in Germany.
Severin studied economics at the University of Mannheim and NOVA School of Business and Economics, Lisbon. He is fluent in German and English.
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- Senior Associate
- Senior Data Scientist
Shailee is a Senior Data Scientist based in RBB's London office. She holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from QMUL with publications in physics journals. She completed a Data Science fellowship at Faculty AI (London) before joining RBB in 2019.
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- Senior Associate / Johannesburg
- Senior Associate in RBB 's Johannesburg
Simon is a Senior Associate in RBB's Johannesburg office. He joined the firm in January 2018, after completing a master's degree in behavioural economics (first class) at the University of Nottingham. Simon also holds a bachelor's degree in economics and statistics, with honours in economics (first class), from the University of Cape Town. In his role as consultant competition economist, Simon has advised on a wide range of matters, across multiple jurisdictions, and in a variety of fora.
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- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / Madrid
Steffen is a Senior Associate based in the Madrid office of RBB Economics. He holds an MSc in Economics from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and a BSc in Economics from the University of Mannheim. Steffen is a native German speaker and fluent in English and Spanish.
Stephen Lewis is a Partner based in the London office of RBB Economics. He has significant experience in merger assessment and abuse of dominance investigations, with a particular emphasis on the technology sector. He joined RBB in 2005 after studying economics at Oxford University and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. He has been included in Who's Who Legal's list of Competition Economists since 2019.
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- Partner
- ACM 's Chief Economist
- Partner / Amsterdam & Brussels
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- Senior Associate / London
- Senior Associate in the London Office
Trent is a Senior Associate in the London office of RBB Economics, joining the firm in 2017. He holds both BSc and MSc degrees in Economics from the University of Warwick.
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- Partner
- Partner / Paris & Brussels
Tristan Lécuyer is a Partner at RBB Economics based in Paris and Brussels. He has extensive experience advising clients on a wide variety of competition matters before the European Commission and the French competition authority, and as part of multi-jurisdictional mergers involving multiple competition authorities around the world. His experience includes complex merger assessments, raising horizontal, vertical and conglomerate concerns, as well as antitrust investigations, including abuse of dominant position, horizontal agreements and follow-on damages.
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- Associate
- Principal
- Associate Principal / Madrid
Valerio Sodano is an Associate Principal based in RBB's Madrid office. Since joining RBB, Valerio has advised clients on wide array of matters, including mergers, Article 101 and 102 investigations and damages litigation. He has worked in cases before the European Commission and national competition authorities, including Spain, Italy and the UK. He also has significant experience providing expert testimony before national courts of justice.
An Italian national, Valerio is fluent in Italian, Spanish and English.
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- Senior Associate / London
Dr Vitaliy Oryshchenko is a Senior Econometrician based in RBB's London office.
Vitaliy's expertise lies in econometric theory and modelling as well as statistical data science. He holds a PhD in Economics (Econometrics) from the University of Cambridge.
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- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / Brussels
Walter Nuñez is a Senior Associate at RBB Economics, based in Brussels. Before joining RBB in February 2022, Walter was an Economist at the Chilean Competition Authority (FNE) in the Mergers and Antitrust divisions, respectively.
Walter holds a Master of Arts in Economics from Georgetown University and an MSc in Economics of Markets and Organization from Toulouse School of Economics.
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- Partner
- Partner / Melbourne & Singapore
Yan Yu is a Partner of RBB Economics with more than 15 years' experience in providing economic advice on competition matters.
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- Principal / London
- Principal in RBB 's London
Yi Ling is a Principal in RBB's London office. She joined RBB in 2013 from working at a competition policy practice at another leading economic consultancy. She has advised clients on a wide range of competitive matters spanning a number of jurisdictions and a wide range of sectors.
Yi Ling holds MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and is fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese.
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- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / London
Yihan Dong is a Senior Associate based in RBB's London office. Yihan has advised clients on numerous high-profile merger, abuse of dominance and litigation cases. She has experience in a wide range of sectors including technology, private equity, retailing, financial services, telecommunication, pharmaceutical, healthcare, real estate, industrial chemicals, and transport.