Merger Enforcement Guidelines Review: Comments on vertical mergers
CRA economists Serge Moresi and Alessandro Kadner-Graziano commented on the non-horizontal merger section (Part 11) of the Competition Bureau’s Merger...
Alessandro Kadner-Graziano
Associate Principal
Dr. Kadner-Graziano is an expert in our Antitrust Practice and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University. He has worked with our US, European, UK, and Canadian teams. He has advised on mergers, abuse of dominance cases, litigations (on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants), arbitration, and industry regulation.
His merger projects have involved horizontal mergers, vertical mergers, and mergers of complements. His litigation projects have involved claims of cartelization, monopolization, tying, predatory pricing, and matters related to royalty disputes.
His experience spans cases before US antitrust authorities and the European Commission. It also includes proceedings before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the UK Competition & Market Authority (CMA), the French Competition Authority (AdlC), the Russian Antimonopoly Service (FAS), the Singaporean Competition & Consumer Commission (CCCS), and US, Australian, and Canadian courts.
Alessandro has a wide range of experience in the tech industry (including cases involving Microsoft; LinkedIn; Google; Amazon; Qualcomm; NXP; Infineon; Gemalto; Broadcom; Uber; Arm) and the media & telecommunications industries (including Bell; Disney; Fox; Sky; NOS; NewsCorp; Liberty Global; Vodafone). He also has experience in a variety of other industries, such as aerospace (Boeing; Embraer), finance (Deutsche Bank), the automotive sector (BMW; Daimler; Europcar; Hertz; Goldcar), construction, retail (Unilever; Danone; WhiteWave; Andros), recorded music, and the US pharmaceutical industry.
Dr. Kadner-Graziano has been retained as an expert and assisted experts in writing reports, conducting modeling and empirical analyses, criticizing opposing experts’ analyses, preparing for depositions, and managing projects. Dr. Alessandro Kadner-Graziano has published his research in peer-reviewed journals and presented to antitrust authorities. His research is published in the International Journal of Industrial Organization, the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, and ProMarket; he has also commented on the new US and upcoming Canadian and European merger guidelines with Dr. Serge Moresi. He presented upon invitation to antitrust authorities of Australia (ACCC), Brazil (CADE), Canada (Competition Bureau), the European Union (DG COMP), Germany (Bundeskartellamt), and the United Kingdom (CMA).
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