Cristina Caffarra
Vice President
Education
Ph.D. Economics, University of Oxford
B.A. Economics, University of Modena
Primary Office Location
99 Bishopsgate
London EC2M 3XD UK
Additional information
Cristina Caffarra is a Vice President in CRA's European Competition Practice. She was previously a Director at Lexecon Ltd, which was acquired by CRA in 2005. Cristina 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 (including the UK, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Ireland, Spain, Finland, and Sweden), and other jurisdictions such as South Africa.
She has been advising before the European Commission (DG Comp) on several Phase II merger investigations, such as TotalFina/Elf, Air Liquide/BOC, GE/Honeywell, UP Kymmene/Norske Skog/Haindl, BP/E.ON, Tetra/Sidel, NewsCorp/Telepiù, Ineos/BP Dormagen, Inco/Falconbridge, CVC/Ferd-SIG, Ryanair/Aer Lingus (for Aer Lingus), Ineos/Kerling and numerous others. She has worked on the appeals before the CFI of GE/Honeywell and Tetra/Sidel, and given evidence before the CFI in the appeal of EDP-ENI/GDP. She has been involved in the European Commission's investigation of Microsoft (on behalf of interveners such as Sun Microsystems, Nokia, and CCIA), including Microsoft's appeal before the Courts. In the UK she has advised on several mergers, both at the OFT stage and before the Competition Commission.
E-Mail: ccaffarra@crai.com
Telephone: +44-20-7664-3700
Direct Telephone: +44-20-7959-1443
Fax: +44-20-7664-3998
