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Oliver Latham

Vice President
Oliver Latham | Charles River Associates

Oliver Latham is a vice president in Charles River Associates’ European Competition Practice. He specialises in the application of econometric techniques to competition assessments as well as in cases involving multi-sided platforms and innovative industries.

His merger work has involved technology and payments (e.g. Amazon/Deliveroo, Microsoft/LinkedIn, Microsoft/GitHub, Microsoft/ZeniMax, PayPal/iZettle, PayPal/Honey, Taboola/Outbrain, Visa/Plaid, Visa/Tink, Uber/Yandex, Uber/Grab, Uber/Careem, Uber/Postmates and Uber/Cornershop), broadcasting (Fox/Sky, Disney/Fox, Vodafone/Liberty Global), as well as a range of other industries (e.g. Aercap/GECAS, AEG/SMG, Ball/Rexam, INEOS/Solvay, Kongsberg/RRCM and NCR/Cardtronics). His antitrust work includes work for complainants in the Google Android, Google Shopping and Google Ad Tech cases, work for Unilever in its response to concerns in relation to impulse ice cream, work for Amazon in ongoing antitrust investigations as well as a range of ongoing work in pharmaceuticals, technology, travel, sports, finance, and tech. He also works on damages litigation, including work for Visa in the ongoing interchange fee litigation, work on class action claims in the technology space, and for Alstom in relation to the Gas Insulated Switchgear cartel.

Prior to joining CRA, Dr Latham completed a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge, where he was also a teaching fellow in the Faculty of Economics and a consultant at the Centre for Policy Studies. His writing has been published in peer reviewed journals including the Economic Journal and European Competition Journal and he has written on economic issues in other publications including Competition Policy International, the Sunday Times and Vox. In 2020 he was named one of the Global Competition Review’s “40 under 40” of antitrust practitioners worldwide.

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Selected engagements

  • 01
    UK Court affirms inclusion of user damages in competition case
    The UK Court of Appeal dismissed Meta’s appeal against the inclusion of user damages in a class action over Meta’s alleged abuse of dominance through the...
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  • 02
    CRA Competition team advises on Tunney Act proceeding in HPE’s $14 billion acquisition of Juniper
    As part of the Tunney Act proceeding, a group of 12 States and the District of Columbia intervened to participate in the Court’s review of that negotiated...
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  • 03
    CRA Competition advises on $24.25bn acquisition of Worldpay by Global Payments
    CRA Competition experts were retained globally by Worldpay, helping it successfully complete its acquisition of Global Payments.
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Oliver Latham
London +44 20 7959 1470 OLatham@crai.co.uk