Joan de Solà-Morales is a Principal based in RBB’s Brussels office. He has advised clients on numerous high-profile mergers before the European Commission, as well as on abuse of dominance cases, horizontal agreements, and vertical restraints. Joan has also advised before a number of national competition authorities, most notably in Spain, and he has given expert testimony before various Spanish courts on competition issues and other commercial disputes.
Joan’s experience spans a wide range of sectors, including online retailing, aircraft components, pharmaceuticals, express delivery services, car rental, airlines, music publishing, insurance, industrial chocolate, fast-moving consumer goods, and mobile telephony.
Joan holds an MSc in Competition and Market Regulation from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and a Licenciatura in Economics, for which he studied at both the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the University of Amsterdam. Before joining RBB, Joan worked at the economics-focused think tank Bruegel, where he was involved in research projects on competition policy and innovation. Joan is fluent in English, Spanish, and Catalan.
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