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Rainer Nitsche

Managing Director, E.CA Economics

Rainer Nitsche is a managing director at E.CA Economics. He is an expert in providing economic advice in competition and litigation cases before the European Commission and national competition authorities. He has more than 18 years of experience in supporting clients in all fields of competition policy enforcement, including cartel and abuse of dominant position cases and merger control (Phase I and Phase II investigations). In addition, he has advised on a variety of regulation issues in network industries. He is named in GCR’s Who’s Who as one of the leading competition economists.

Besides renowned law firms, his clients have also included the European Commission and British, Dutch and German competition and regulatory authorities. He regularly acts as a testifying expert on merger and litigation cases for the Austrian Cartel Court. In a report produced for the European Commission, he developed economic methods for assessing the effect of State aid on competition and trade. He has advised several European national governments and State aid recipients in this area.

Prior to his work for E.CA Economics, Dr Nitsche was Vice President in the Competition Practice and Director of the Brussels office of CRA International. Prior to his five years in Brussels, he worked as an economic consultant at Price Waterhouse and Arthur Andersen in London and Berlin.