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New colleagues from the Chief Economist Team and academia

CRA has expanded its team in Brussels by recruiting three economists from the Chief Economist Team at DG Competition. Dr Raphaël De Coninck, Dr Greg Langus and Dr Hans Zenger all join CRA's Brussels office as Senior Consultants. In addition Pierre Régibeau - a well-known academic economist with extensive experience in consulting and noted contributions in the field of compatibility and IP rights - also joins CRA's London office as Vice President.

While at DG Competition, De Coninck, Langus and Zenger have been involved in most major cases with significant economic input of recent years.

Raphaël De Coninck has worked on numerous high profile mergers (from Sony/BMG to Travelport/Worldspan, Endesa/Gas Natural, Thomson/Reuters, TomTom/TeleAtlas, Nokia/Navteq, EDF/British Energy, Kraft/Cadbury, Cisco/Tandberg, Votorantim/Fischer, Seagate/Samsung, WD/Hitachi), complex antitrust cases (BHP/RioTinto JV, Rambus, Nokia/Bosch IPCom) and cartel investigations. He also contributed to policy initiatives such as DG Comp's Best Practices for Economic Submissions, the ex-officio methodology for cartel investigations, and the Guidance Paper on the Quantification of Antitrust Damages in Civil Proceedings. He also lectured on Law and Economics at the University of Chicago and held a research fellowship at New York University School of Law.

Greg Langus has worked on a number of complex merger reviews, including Sun/Oracle, Intel/McAfee, EDF/British Energy, TomTom/TeleAtlas and Campina/Friesland, as well as complex dominance cases such as the E.ON electricity cases and the probe on IBM market power abuse. He was previously researcher and lecturer at the Tilburg University School of Economics.

Hans Zenger has provided expert economic advice in a large number of complex competition investigations, including Visa, Intel, Deutsche Bahn/EWS, Réel/Rio Tinto Alcan, Intel/McAfee and Thomson/Reuters. He was also closely involved in the defence of various Commission decisions before the General Court, including E.ON/GDF, MasterCard and REWE/Adeg. Hans has contributed to major policy initiatives at the Commission, including the Vertical Restraints Guidelines and the Article 102 Guidance Paper. He has a PhD in economics from the University of Munich.

Dr Pierre Régibeau, who joins the London office as a VP, is a noted industrial economist with a strong record of publications in the economics of compatibility and in the interface between competition policy and IP rights. He has extensive experience as a consultant, having worked previously as Academic Associate of CRA on a number of high profile cases. He also has a close focus on policy, having been a member of the Economic Advisory Group to the Chief Economist at DG Competition for 5 years and having recently completed a Report for DG Competition on Competition Policy and IP. He held teaching positions at the Sloan School of Management (MIT), the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University), the University of Barcelona, INSEAD and most recently the University of Essex.

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