Who’s Who Legal has recognized four Brattle principals and one Brattle academic advisor as leading consultants in its 2023 global guide for Competition Thought Leaders.

Principal Dr. Peter Davis is the leader of Brattle’s Europe Antitrust & Competition practice, and is an expert on competition damages actions, mergers and acquisitions, cartels, and market investigations. He is a former Deputy Chairman of the UK Competition Commission (CC), now a part of the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).

Principal Dr. Renée Duplantis is the leader of Brattle’s Canadian Antitrust & Competition practice. She has nearly 20 years of experience involving complex competition matters in Canada, the US, and Europe. She specializes in the empirical analysis of competition issues, with a primary focus on quantifying the competitive effects of mergers.

Academic Advisor Kai-Uwe Kühn is a Professor of Economics at the University of East Anglia who has advised on all aspects of competition matters for 25 years. He has served as the Chief Economist of the Directorate-General for Competition (DG Competition) at the European Commission.

Principal Daniel McFadden is the Presidential Professor of Health Economics at the University of Southern California, where he has joint appointments at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and the Department of Economics at USC Dornsife College. Professor McFadden was awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work developing methods and theory used in analyzing how consumers and households make choices from sets of discrete alternatives.

Principal Dr. Loren Smith, co-leader of Brattle’s global Antitrust & Competition practice, specializes in applying economic and econometric tools to antitrust and competition matters, with a focus on horizontal and vertical mergers. He has been the lead economic expert for both government agencies and private parties in regulatory investigations, federal merger challenges, and private litigations in numerous industries in the US and internationally.

Who’s Who Legal also publishes an annual global guide for Competition Economists and Competition Economists Future Leaders. Click here to see the full list of Brattle experts recognized on the 2022 guides.