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Cristina Caffarra

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Dr Cristina Caffarra (Vice President) is the Head of CRA's European Competition Practice. Dr Caffarra is an expert in the application of modern industrial economics to competition law, and in the empirical analysis of markets in the context of competition investigations. She has provided economic advice to companies on issues of merger control, assessment of vertical restraints, finding of dominance, evaluation of abusive conduct, and several other competition/antitrust issues including bundling, tying, rebates, price discrimination, other forms of potentially exclusionary conduct, intellectual property rights, collusion and the assessment of damages. She has directed and coordinated empirical and theoretical economic analyses, and provided expert witness testimony on several cases before the European Commission, the competition authorities of several member states, and other jurisdictions such as South Africa.

She has been advising before the European Commission (DG Comp) on a large number of merger investigations, including high profile cases such as TotalFina/Elf, Air Liquide/BOC, GE/Honeywell, Norske Skog/Walsum/Parenco, BP/E.ON, Tetra/Sidel, NewsCorp/Telepiù, Ineos/BP Dormagen, Inco/Falconbridge, Telefonica/O2, Ryanair/Aer Lingus (for Aer Lingus), Ineos/Kerling, BHP Billiton/Rio Tinto, Unilever/Sara Lee, Google/Motorola, BA/BMI (for Virgin Atlantic) and many others.

She has worked on a number of appeals before the CFI and given evidence before the CFI on a number of cases. She has been involved in a large number of Art 101 and Art 102 investigations before DG Comp, including several cartels and information exchange cases, and abuse of dominance investigations such as Microsoft and several others. She has been also involved in numerous follow-on cartel damages actions and other competition-related damages in a number of jurisdictions (such as the UK, Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands).

Dr Caffarra joined CRA in June 2005, when CRA acquired Lexecon Ltd. She had been a Director of Lexecon Ltd since 1999. She holds a first degree in Economics (honours) from Italy, and a Master and D.Phil. (Ph.D.) in Economics from Oxford University. She has worked for research institutions both in Italy and at Oxford. She is on the Editorial Board of the European Competition Law Journal, lectures at University College London, has written several articles for competition journals and presented papers on the economics of competition law at numerous international and academic conferences. She shares her time between Brussels and London.

E-Mail: ccaffarra@crai.com
Telephone (London): +44 20 7664 3700
Telephone (Brussels): +32 2 627 1400
Fax: +44 20 7664 3998
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