Cento is founder and Managing Partner of Case Associates, IEA Law & Economics Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Buckingham. Since 2006 the Global Competition Review survey has voted Cento one of the most ‘highly regarded’ competition economists. He has over 40 years’ experience assisting lawyers and companies in responding to investigations by the European Commission, national competition authorities, national regulatory authorities, and in court proceedings in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. Cento was also adviser to the Microsoft Monitoring Trustee on the pricing of protocols under commitments set out in the EC Microsoft 2004 decision. Cento regularly acts as an expert witness in competition law, commercial and damages litigation. He has been an expert witness in courts and tribunals in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Finland, Lithuania, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and the International Court of Arbitration. Cento has appeared as an expert for claimants in several high profile antitrust actions such as Crehan, UK actions against members of the ‘international vitamins’ cartel’ (Deans/BCL, Devenish, Moy Park, Grampian/Vion), the first major UK collective action (Merricks v MasterCard); and Clear v Telecom New Zealand. He has experience in the transport, airports, automotive, energy, water, postal, property, payment systems, financial, commodities, insurance, medical, paint, sport, tax, packaging, electronics, and communications and media sectors. Cento has assisted with clearance of some of the world’s largest mergers including Carnival/P&O Princess Cruises, MCI/WorldCom, Vodafone/Manessmann, Seagrams/Polygram, AOL/Time Warner, Telia/Telenor, and Telia/Sonera. Cento has degrees in economics and law (BEc (Hons), MEc, DPhil) and is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (ACIArb). After a short period at the Australian Federal Department of the Treasury, Cento was a Commonwealth Scholar and then research fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University. He has held academic positions in UK, US, Canadian and Australian universities; and was the Research Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), an influential economics think tank. He has published extensively on the economics of competition, regulation and law, and was on the editorial board of the UK Competition Law Reports. Cento’s ‘groundbreaking’ practitioners book Cartel Damages – Principles, measurement and economics will be published by Oxford University Press in early 2020.
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The Court of Appeal in BritNed v ABB [2019] EWCA Civ 1840 has again had to clarify the principles governing competition damages. It reaffirmed the English High Court’s rejection of the claimant’s approach to damages but took issue with the trial judge’s position that damages should err on the (...)
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BritNed Development Ltd v. ABB AB and ABB Ltd [2018] EWHC 2616 (Ch). (“BritNed”) is the first English cartel damage judgment and the first to consider an econometric approach to calculating overcharges. The court rejected the claimant’s econometric analysis as ‘too complex’ and “unspecific”. (...)
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Definition 1. A margin or price squeeze occurs when the difference between the wholesale price of an input supplied by a dominant entity and the downstream price does not give an efficient downstream firm a reasonable profit margin. 2. This foreword reviews the law and economics of an (...)
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This section selects books on themes related to competition laws and economics. This compilation does not attempt to be exhaustive but rather a survey of themes important in the area. The survey usually covers publication over the last three months after publication of the latest issue of (...)
2013 Competition Case Law Digest - A Synthesis of EU and National Leading Cases
