Matteo Foschi

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8 Finsbury Circus
London, EC2M 7EA, UK

Matteo Foschi

Vice President

Dr. Matteo Foschi is a vice president in Charles River Associates’ European Competition Practice. He specialises in the competition assessment of cases involving multi-sided platforms, technology, and innovative sectors including Artificial Intelligence, content streaming, gaming, digital advertising, online retailing, OTAs, healthcare, and others.

Dr. Foschi is an expert in global merger review and has advised multiple companies in front of the European Commission, the UK CMA, the Australian ACCC, CADE, the Korean FTC, SAMR, as well as a list of other agencies worldwide. In his merger related work, Dr. Foschi held leading roles in high profile cases including Microsoft/Activision, Amazon/Deliveroo, Microsoft/ZeniMax, Taboola/Outbrain, Sabre/Farelogix, and others. He also has extensive experience in antitrust, having worked with Microsoft, Sabre, and other major technology companies worldwide.  

His recent antitrust and competition economics thought leadership contributions include a chapter on Antitrust and Merger Enforcement in the AI era in the volume Antitrust Economics for Lawyers (LexisNexis), and articles on tech and AI in peer reviewed journals such as the Business and Management Review. Prior to joining CRA, he held a Max Weber Postdoctoral fellowship at the European University Institute and a Royal Economic Society fellowship. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Leicester.  

Education

  • PhD Economics, University of Leicester

Cases

CRA Competition team advises on Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard across jurisdictions worldwide

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CMA closes its merger inquiry into the Microsoft/OpenAI partnership

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CMA clears acquisition of Teads by Outbrain

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CMA clear Microsoft’s hiring of former Inflection employees after phase 1 review

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CRA Competition advises on Microsoft–Activision acquisition in Europe

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Microsoft / Nuance

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Microsoft / XandR

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Microsoft/ZeniMax

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Amazon/Deliveroo

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Kongsberg / Rolls Royce Commercial Marine

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News Articles

CMA closes its merger inquiry into the Microsoft/OpenAI partnership

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CMA clears acquisition of Teads by Outbrain

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CRA responds to the European Commission’s draft Article 102 Guidelines

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CMA clear Microsoft’s hiring of former Inflection employees after phase 1 review

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CMA announces it will clear Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard

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Administrative Council for Economic Defense unconditionally cleared Microsoft’s acquisition of XandR

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CMA and EC unconditionally clear Microsoft’s acquisition of Nuance

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European Commission unconditionally clears Microsoft’s acquisition of ZeniMax

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CMA clears Amazon's minority investment in Deliveroo.

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European Commission unconditionally clears Kongsberg’s acquisition of Rolls Royce Commercial Marine

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