Alan Overd is a vice president in CRA’s London office. He studied economics at Cambridge University and the University of Oxford, where he held a lectureship at Keble College. Prior to joining Lexecon Ltd in 1995, Mr. Overd worked for Oxera. Mr. Overd has worked on a range of competition cases in various jurisdictions. He has handled a number of European merger investigations, including GrandMet/Guinness, Price Waterhouse/Coopers & Lybrand, Airtours/First Choice, EMI/Warner Music, Ernst & Young/Andersen, adidas/Reebok, and MyTravel/Thomas Cook. The UK cases he has handled include Lloyds TSB/HBOS, Boots/Alliance Unichem, Lloyds TSB/Abbey National, and Asda/Safeway. He led the Lexecon Ltd team in Airtours’ appeal to the Court of First Instance over the Airtours/First Choice decision. This was the first successful appeal to the court made by the parties to a merger.
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This article is the winner of the 2013 Antitrust Writing Awards, Business Category, Economics section. Sponsored Entry* Some mergers materially reduce the choice of suppliers available to customers. When this happens, how much weight should competition authorities give to the potential (...)
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This article is the winner of the 2013 Antitrust Writing Awards, Business Category, Economics section. Sponsored Entry* Some mergers materially reduce the choice of suppliers available to customers. When this happens, how much weight should competition authorities give to the potential (...)
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