Paul Stoddart

Paul is a Principal in RBB’s London office. Paul is recognised in Who’s Who Legal (WWL) as a competition expert. He is course director of the Postgraduate Diploma in Economics for Competition Law at King’s College London, attended by staff from competition authorities and other leading law firms.

Since starting his career in 2013, Paul has worked extensively on competition matters before the European Commission, as well as various national competition authorities and courts, including the UK, India and China. His experience spans a wide range of matters, including mergers involving both horizontal and vertical issues, abuse of dominance, anticompetitive agreements and follow-on damages litigation.

Paul’s sector-specific expertise spans online platforms (ecosystems, search engines, mobile), enterprise software, telecommunications, logistics, facility management, energy, and FMCG (eyewear, toiletries).

Paul regularly writes on a range of competition issues and his publications have featured in leading journals including European Competition Law Review and Management Science. Paul has also contributed to reports for competition authorities including “Cost pass-through: theory, measurement, and potential policy implications” (2014) published by the Office of Fair Trading.

Paul holds an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford and also studied Economics at the University of Warwick and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).