Dr Luisa Affuso has over ten years’ consulting experience specialising in competition policy. She has particular expertise in the application of economics and econometric techniques to complex merger and antitrust questions. Before entering consulting Luisa held academic positions at the University of Cambridge and at the London Business School following her PhD in Economics from Warwick University.
Luisa has advised on competition policy matters and has given expert evidence on a number of high-profile cases before several competition authorities including the European Commission, the Italian, UK, South African and Singaporean authorities. She has advised on a large number of merger transactions, her recent cases in the UK and EU include Boots/Alliance Unichem; VUE/Ster; Macquarie(Arqiva)/National Grid Wireless; EDF/British Energy; and Motor Oil (Hellas)/Shell (Overseas Holdings). Luisa has also advised clients on abuse of dominance and restrictive horizontal and vertical agreements in a number of jurisdictions. She has advised on Article 101 and Article 102 cases spanning a wide range of sectors, including margin squeeze in telecoms; loyalty rebates in air transport; foreclosure of online markets; and cartels in several sectors. In addition to merger and antitrust cases, Luisa has advised on the assessment of damages in antitrust litigation and on State aid in the banking and financial sector.
Luisa was nominated one of the world’s leading competition economists by the International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers and Economists in 2009 and 2010.
