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About

Kate Eyre specializes in competition, antitrust, and regulatory economics. She provides expert analysis and advice to clients in a variety of competition matters including abuse of dominance, market investigations, mergers and competition litigation. 

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Ms. Eyre has worked in a number of markets, including online platforms, veterinary services, energy, and telecommunications. She has provided economic analysis and advice to clients on the competitive and efficiency effects of mergers before the UK, New Zealand, Australian, and Malaysian competition authorities, including regarding geospatial analysis.

Ms. Eyre has advised on competition issues in complex litigation cases in the UK and Australia, including counterfactual analysis and as part of a team quantifying damages in a large litigation against a digital platform in Australia. Her recent antitrust experience has involved preparing expert reports and their underlying analysis for collective action litigation before the Competition Appeal Tribunal in the UK.

Ms. Eyre has advised clients on market investigations in the UK and New Zealand, including profitability analysis in the veterinary services and supermarkets sectors. She has particular expertise in communications markets, with experience analyzing competition issues arising from telecommunications mergers, broadband regulation, and the valuation of the social benefits associated with access to telecommunications technologies. Ms. Eyre has also worked extensively in the regulatory space to advise clients across the communications, electricity, gas, and transport sectors. She has an academic background in economics and accounting.

Education

  • MSc in economics, University College London
  • BCom (with honours) in Economics, University of Otago