About
Zuzana Janeckova is a London-based economist with more than 10 years of experience working as a regulatory and financial economist. Ms. Janeckova specialises in quantum and damages assessment in the context of litigation and international arbitration as well as the economics of utility regulation.
Ms. Janeckova has acted as a consulting expert in more than a dozen investor-state and commercial disputes, including on matters before the ICSID, ICC, and PCA. Her experience includes business valuation, damages estimation following government intervention and contract breaches, lost profit assessments arising from construction delays, and disputes involving regulated infrastructure assets. She has worked on cases covering a range of industries, including energy, telecoms, oil and gas, regulated infrastructure, manufacturing, hospitality, and real estate.
In addition to disputes work, Ms. Janeckova specialises in regulatory economics, with a particular focus on financial aspects of utility regulation, including cost of capital estimation as well as financial and risk modelling. She advises clients on finance issues across all regulated utility sectors in the context of price control reviews, due diligence assignments, policy design, and regulatory appeals. A large part of Ms. Janeckova's work focuses on UK regulated assets, where she has advised energy networks at RIIO-1 and RIIO-2, water companies at PR14 and PR19, Heathrow Airport, NATS at their latest reviews, and Ofcom in its review of BT's charges. She has also advised investors on sales of regulated energy, water, and transport assets in the UK, France, Sweden, and the Czech Republic.
Who’s Who Legal has recognized Ms. Janeckova as the top of her generation in the arbitration future leader series (2024).
Education
- MSc in finance, University of Warwick
- MA in economics of international trade and European integration, a consortium of seven European universities
- BA in international trade, University of Economics, Prague
Highlights
In Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration Future Leader 2024, Ms. Janeckova’s clients recognized:
- She “makes lawyers’ live so much easier—the simplicity in her approach to digits and quantum is superb,” and
- “She is very pleasant to work with.”