Biography

Dr. Jorge Padilla advises clients on a variety of competition policy and intellectual property issues covering a wide range of industries including electricity, entertainment, media, retailing, technology, telecommunications, and transport. He has advised on various cases and given expert testimony before the Cypriot, Dutch, French, German, Irish, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and UK competition authorities, as well as in cases before the European Commission. Dr. Padilla has also submitted written testimony to the European Court of First Instance and the UK Competition Appeals Tribunal in state aid, cartel, merger control and abuse of dominance cases. He has also given expert testimony in various civil litigation (damages) and international arbitration cases.

Dr. Padilla earned M Phil and D Phil degrees in economics from the University of Oxford. He is a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London) and the Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), and is or has been member of the editorial boards of Competition Policy International, the Review of Economic Studies, the Spanish Economic Review and Investigaciones Económicas (which he directed for more than three years).

Dr. Padilla has written several papers on competition policy and industrial organisation in the Antitrust Bulletin, the Antitrust Law Journal, the Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law, the Economic Journal, the European Competition Law Review, the European Economic Review, the Fordham International Law Journal, the International Journal of Industrial Organization, the Journal of Competition Law and Economics, the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, the Journal of Economic Theory, the RAND Journal of Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the University of Chicago Law Review, and World Competition. He is also co-author of the Law and Economics of Article 82 EC, Hart Publishing, 2006.

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Profile Highlights

Professional Experience Consulting Government Official Corporate Executive International Engagements

Testimony Experience Federal/National State/Provincial Mediation Arbitration

Publications

• 05/2008, Preventing Patent Hold up: An Economic Assessment of Ex Ante Licensing Negotiations in Standard Setting
• 02/11/2008, The Assessment of Vertical Mergers: A quick look at the EU Guidelines and Recent Case Law
• 01/18/2008, Models for Regulatory Intervention
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Employment History

• 2004 to present, LECG Chief Executive Officer, Europe
• 1993 to present, Centre For Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Research Fellow (Industrial Organization)
• 2003 to present, Centro De Estudios Monetarios Y Financieros Research Fellow
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Education

• 1992, University of Oxford, DPhil
• 1990, University of Oxford, MPhil
• 1988, University of Alicante, BA