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Tel: +64 9 928 3290
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Email: james.mellsop@nera.com
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MCA (with Distinction) in economics, Victoria University of Wellington
BCA (with Honours) in economics (1st Class), Victoria University of Wellington
LLB degree, Victoria University of Wellington
BCA in accountancy, Victoria University of Wellington
James Mellsop applies expert economic analysis to legal issues in the areas of competition, regulation, price setting, contractual disputes, damages, fair trading, tax, and resource management. His experience includes analyzing the economic implications of mergers and acquisitions, as well as joint ventures and other contracts. Mr. Mellsop has also evaluated market behavior and regulatory interventions in a variety of sectors and industries, including media, telecommunications, utilities, mining, health care, retailing, transport, manufacturing, agriculture, software, building products, banking and finance, and insurance.
Mr. Mellsop has analyzed and quantified the appropriate price to be paid for access to infrastructure (e.g., airports, ports, pipelines, and databases) and for property leases; the economic and environmental effects of resource management decisions; and damages as a result of breach of contract, collusion, and misrepresentation.
He has provided expert evidence before the Australian Competition Tribunal, the Supreme Court of New South Wales, the New Zealand High Court, the Competition Appeal Board of Singapore, the New Zealand Environment Court, the New Zealand Commerce Commission, arbitrators, Resource Management Act Commissioners, and the Waitangi Tribunal. He has worked on projects in New Zealand, Australia, and Asia, and has been engaged by both the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission and the New Zealand Commerce Commission.
Prior to joining NERA in 2008, Mr. Mellsop directed the New Zealand competition practice of another international economics consultancy. In addition, he worked for the New Zealand Treasury on microeconomic policy issues, particularly competition, regulatory, and telecommunications policy. From 1992 to 1996, Mr. Mellsop worked as a lawyer for Bell Gully, with a focus on competition, corporate, and oil and gas law.
Title | Type | Author | ||
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Is Lax Enforcement of Antitrust Policy to Blame for an Increase in Market Power? | Published Article | James Mellsop and C.-Philipp Heller | ||
The Role of Fixed Cost Savings in Merger Analysis | White Paper | James Mellsop | ||
Failing Firm Merger Analysis in the Shadow of COVID-19 | White Paper | James Mellsop, Dr. Will Taylor, and Kevin Counsell | ||
NERA Letter to the Reserve Bank of New Zealand | Memo | Kevin Counsell, Prof. Lewis Evans, James Mellsop | ||
Some Economics of a “Misuse of Market Power” | Published Article | Mr. James Mellsop and Dr. Craig Malam | ||
Levelling the Playing Field: The Role of the Internet and Mobile Computing in Improvi... | Study | Dr. Lawrence Wu, James Mellsop, Dr. Kristin Terris, Dr. Will Taylor, et al. | ||
Quantifying Benefits and Costs under the Resource Management Act: Lessons from Commer... | Working Paper | By James Mellsop and Kevin Counsell | ||
Objective RMA Decision-Making: Cost Benefit Analysis as an Economic and Practical Fra... | Published Article | Kevin Counsell, Dr. Lewis Evans, and James Mellsop | ||
New Zealand Competition Law and Policy | Book | A book by Matt Sumpter with contributions from James Mellsop and Ben Hamlin | ||
An Assessment of the DIRA Triggers | Report | James Mellsop, Kevin Counsell, and Will Taylor | ||
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Conference Closing Address: A Conversation with The Honourable Mr Justice Marcus Smit... | 09 December 2021 | |||
Third Annual UK Competition Litigation Conference | 07 December 2021 | |||
Antitrust in Asia: One Size Fits All? | 13 September 2021 | |||
Regulating Fixed Broadband in the Presence of Infrastructure Competition | 28 July 2021 | |||
Competition Matters 2019 | 26 July 2019 | |||
Exploring the Economic Tool Box | 10 August 2018 | |||
International Competition Network Annual Meeting | 28 April 2015 | |||
Competition Law and Policy Institute of New Zealand 24th Annual Workshop | 03 August 2013 | |||
The Twenty-Third Annual Workshop of The Competition Law and Policy Institute of New Z... | 03 August 2012 | |||
Industrial Organisation and Competition Policy Workshop | 25 January 2011 | |||