Jakub Drabik

Associate Principal

Jakub is an empirical economist who advises clients on antitrust economics cases including horizontal and vertical mergers, abuse of dominance investigations, as well as market investigations. Jakub holds a Master’s degree in Economics and a Bachelor’s in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics.

At CRA, Jakub has worked on numerous high-profile cases across a variety of industries before the European Commission, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the FNE in Chile, as well as other national competition authorities. This included ridesharing (Uber/Careem; Uber/Grab), local delivery (Amazon/Deliveroo; Uber/Cornershop), and live entertainment venues (AEG/Onex JV).

Prior to joining CRA, Jakub taught Econometrics and Statistics courses to undergraduates and postgraduates at the London School of Economics. During that time, he also worked on economic research of the US Patent Screening Process.

Selected engagements

  • 01
    CMA clears Microsoft’s hiring of former Inflection employees after phase 1 review
    On 4 September 2024, the Competition and Market Authority (CMA) cleared Microsoft’s hiring of certain former employees of, and its entry into associated...
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  • 02
    CRA Competition team advises on Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard across jurisdictions worldwide
    On October 13, 2023, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that it would clear Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard – subject to...
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