Bastian Gottschling

Education

MPhil in economics, University of Cambridge, Queens' College
BSc in economics, London School of Economics

Experience

Bastian Gottschling serves as an economic expert in dispute resolution. He has specialized in economic and finance issues arising from commercial and investment disputes, competition, regulation, state aid, and taxation.

Recent representative engagements:

• Calculation of damages (lost profits) in a construction dispute
• Analysis of markets (gas, storage, and solar markets) in relation to requests for contract reform
• Competition analysis in relation to claims of market foreclosure and excessive pricing
• Benchmarking analysis of TenneT’s efficiency in the context of a court ruling on regulated network tariffs

His expert witness experience includes the preparation of expert and rebuttal reports, oral testimony under cross-examination, and expert witness conferencing.

In addition to dispute support, Mr. Gottschling has assisted companies and financial investors with transaction support, such as pre-transaction advice and due diligence, and other economic consulting projects involving credit rating analysis, probabilistic analysis, and valuation including real options.

Mr. Gottschling holds an MPhil in economics from the University of Cambridge, Queens' College, and a BSc in economics from the London School of Economics. Mr. Gottschling has published articles on the use of economics in dispute resolution, and presented at industry conferences on the topic of energy markets. Recently, he co-authored a chapter on the use of economics in investor-state arbitration and commercial arbitration in the book, The Use of Economics in International Trade and Investment Disputes, (ed. Theresa Carpenter, Marion Jansen, and Joost Pauwelyn, Cambridge University Press).