Alan Overd

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. He has specialised in competition economics since 1995 and has handled a wide range of competition cases in various jurisdictions. European merger investigations include Refresco/Pride Foods, Schlumberger/Cameron, GrandMet/Guinness, Price Waterhouse/Coopers & Lybrand, EMI/Warner Music, Ernst & Young/Andersen, adidas/Reebok and MyTravel/Thomas Cook. 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. He has written extensively on a range of competition and regulatory issues. His article “Sponsored Entry” won the Best Business Economics Article in the 2013 Antitrust Writing Awards.

He has been involved in a number of UK mergers including Phase 1 clearances and detailed Phase 2 investigations. Recent examples include Capco/Shaftesbury, NECSWS/Capita SSS, FNZ/GBST, Loxam NWP/UK Platforms, Moneysupermarket/Decision Technologies, Hammerson/Grand Central, BCA Marketplace/SMA, Hain Frozen Foods/Orchard House Foods, GTCR/Gorkana, Bauer Media/Absolute Radio, and Pork Farms/Kerry Foods. He also has extensive experience in UK market investigations and dominance cases across a range of industries including energy (for Centrica), banking (for Lloyds TSB), supermarkets (for Asda), and pharmaceuticals (clients include Astra Zeneca and Reckitt Benckiser).