Gianmarco Calanchi

Gianmarco is a Senior Principal in the London office. He has more than ten years’ experience as a professional economist. He has advised clients in high profile competition and antitrust cases, including merger control cases, Article 101 and 102 cases and private litigations before the European Commission, the US Federal Trade Commission, The UK Competition and Markets Authority, the Italian Autoritá Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato, and other national competition authorities and tribunals. His experience spans industries including AdTech, finance, media, telecoms, transport, energy, healthcare, pharma, food, consumer goods, industrial products and payment systems.

Before joining Keystone, Gianmarco was Vice President at Compass Lexecon and led the economic analysis of over 20 horizontal and non-horizontal mergers at the UK Competition and Markets Authority (and at its predecessor, the Office of Fair Trading).

Gianmarco holds an M.Sc. and a B.Sc. in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University, with BSC dissertation in statistics and MSC dissertation in game theory applied to competition policy.

Education

• M.Sc. in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University
• B.Sc. in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University

Select Case Work

• US competition litigation in AdTech
• Advising a third-party telecom operator in their complaint against a telecom merger
• Advising a telecom operator in (potential) Art.101 TFEU proceedings
• Roark/Subway (FTC)
• Competition litigation in media
• DMA complaint on behalf of a media company
• White paper on advertising for a large tech company
• Advising a news publisher on the value of news in support to a negotiation against a large tech company
• Vodafone/Three (CMA)*
• Advising DAF in follow-on damages litigation concerning the Trucks cartel (UK CAT, Italy)*
• Advising an industrial client in follow-on cartel damages litigation*
• Culligan/Waterlogic (CMA)*
• Aon/Willis Tower Watson (global)*
• Advising a large tech company in relation to an EC, DoJ and NY State Attorney investigation concerning retroactive rebates*
• Disney/21^st Century Fox (global)*
• Advising Aspen Pharmaceuticals in relation to the EC investigation on excessive pricing*
• Acco/Esselte (CMA)*
• Diebold/Wincor Nixdorf (CMA)*
• EP/Enel (EC)*
• Bayer/Monsanto (global)*
• Competition arbitration in the energy market*
• WIND/Three (EC)*

Select CMA Merger Cases

• Xchanging/Agencyport (Phase II)
• The Gym/Pure Gym
• Dentsu/Aegis
• WGSN/Stylesight
• BlackRock/Credit Suisse ETFs
• Fleetcor/Arval
• LSE/Russell Investments
• ICE/APX Endex
• First Group/Finglands
• Rotala/First Group
• Bauer/Absolute
• United Drugs/Pharmexx
• Parker Hannifin/Olaer
• Vodafone/Telefónica passive assets JV
• Dods/DeHavilland
• O2/Wembley Arena
• CGG Veritas/Fugro
• Two Sisters Food Group/Premier
• PCS/Filterpure
• Airport Partners/EYE
• Shell/Rontec

* indicates cases done before joining Keystone

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