Matthew Bennett

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8 Finsbury Circus
London, EC2M 7EA, UK

Matthew Bennett

Vice President

Dr. Matthew Bennett has extensive experience in cases in front of a wide arrange of authorities, including the CMA, European Commission, ACCC, Korean Fair Trade Commission and the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) amongst others.

Matthew has deep expertise in the area of mergers. These include several multi-jurisdictional mergers such as Schlumberger/Aker, Broadcom/VMWare, Natura/Avon, Fibria/Suzano, Microsoft/Linkedin and O2/Three, as well as many prominent CMA Phase II mergers including Optum/EMIS, Cellnex/CK Hutchinson, CHC/Babcock, TVS/3G, Sainsbury’s/Asda. Tullet Prebon/ICAP and Ladbrokes/Coral.

In addition to mergers, Matthew has worked on a number of Article 101 and 102 cases including most recently, Liothyronine and Hydrocortisone, both of involved providing expert testimony in front of the UK CAT.

Prior to joining CRA, Matthew served as the Director of Economics at the Office of Fair Trading (now CMA) in the United Kingdom where he was responsible for the economic policy, financial analysis, and statistics and econometrics teams. During his time at the authority he provided advice across all competition cases, including the banking, construction, retail, and tobacco industries, amongst others, as well as the UK input into the drafting of the EC Horizontal Guidelines and Guidance on Enforcement Priorities in Article 102.

Before the OFT, Matthew worked at LECG and for the UK Communications Regulator, OFCOM. Matthew has authored several papers in the area of competition and consumer policy, including several papers in the areas of Information Exchange, Vertical Pricing practices and Behavioural Economics. He earned his PhD degree in Economics from the University of Warwick and completed his Post-Doctorate in Competition Economics from the Toulouse School of Economics.

Education

  • Post-Doctorate Degree in Economics, Toulouse School of Economics
  • PhD Economics, University of Warwick

Cases

ASSA ABLOY Limited / Arran Isle Limited

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Cellnex / CK Hutchison

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Education Software Solutions (ESS) / ParentPay

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Cellnex/Arqiva

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CP Group’s acquisition of Tesco’s Thai business

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Mars Petcare/various acquisitions

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Sainsbury’s/Asda

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TDR Capital/BCA Marketplace

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Natura/Avon

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Delivery Hero/Woowa Brothers

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Baker Hughes/Halliburton

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Health Insurance

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Shipping

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Hydrocortisone (Horizontal Agreement)

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Hotel Booking Platforms

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Three/O2

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DFS/Sofology

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Just Eat/Hungryhouse

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Empire/Cineworld

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Tullett Prebon/ICAP

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Coral/Ladbrokes

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Verizon/Yahoo

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BP/Woolworths

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BT/EE

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Liothyronine

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Google Android

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Qualcomm/NXP

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Microsoft/LinkedIn

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Euro Car Parts/Andrew Page

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VTech/LeapFrog

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News Articles

The CMA concludes its independent study into the music streaming market

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CMA clears anticipated acquisition of Arran Isle Limited by ASSA ABLOY Limited

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The CMA conditionally cleared Cellnex acquisition of CK Hutchison’s passive telecom infrastructure assets in the UK at Phase II

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CMA unconditionally approves merger of Education Software Solutions’ (ESS) with ParentPay

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Thai regulator conditionally clears CP Group’s acquisition of Tesco’s Thai business

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CMA clears Cellnex’s acquisition of Arqiva

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CMA gives final approval for Tullett Prebon’s acquisition of ICAP’s global broking business

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Publications

Roche/Spark and pharma mergers: acquiring a ‘pipeline’ potential competitor and ‘killer acquisition’ concerns

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Qihoo v. Tencent: Economic Analysis of the first Chinese Supreme Court decision under Anti-Monopoly

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When do retail price communications between retailers and manufacturers become RPM?

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