Compass Lexecon

Chairman: Daniel R.­­ Fischel

President: Mark Israel

Senior Managing Directors & Co-Heads of EMEA practice: Lorenzo Coppi, Neil Dryden, Kirsten Edwards-Warren

Chair of EMEA Practice: Jorge Padilla

Number of employees: 850+

Number of offices: 23

Overview & History:

Established in 1977, Compass Lexecon is a world-leading economic consultancy that provides law firms, corporations and government clients with critical insight and advice on complex economic and finance issues.

We produce compelling, relevant, and creative analysis to help our clients and their stakeholders make better-informed decisions. Our global network of world-renowned economists and academic affiliates brings a diverse set of skills and experience in empirical analysis, combined with deep sector expertise and supported by cutting-edge data science tools and techniques.

The firm has grown to 850+ staff based in 23 offices across the U.S., Latin America, EMEA and Asia and has advised clients in matters before regulatory agencies and courts in over 100 jurisdictions worldwide.

Services

• Accounting Litigation

• Antitrust & Competition: Conduct

• Antitrust & Competition: Damages

• Antitrust & Competition: Mergers

• Auctions

• Bankruptcy & Financial Distress Litigation

• Class Certification

• Corporate Governance

• Damages

• Data Science

• Derivatives & Structured Finance

• ERISA Litigation

• Intellectual Property

• International Arbitration

• International Trade

• Labor & Employment

• Mergers & Acquisition Litigation

• Policy & Regulation

• Pro Bono

• Securities & Financial Markets

• State aid

• Tax Services

• Valuation & Financial Analysis

Industries

Compass Lexecon advises clients across all industries, with significant experience in the following sectors:

• Digital Platforms

• Energy

• Entertainment & Media

• Financial Institutions & Products

• Healthcare & Life Sciences

• Manufacturing

• Real Estate & Construction

• Retail

• Sports

• Technology

• Telecommunication

• Transportation

Awards

Compass Lexecon has been named “Competition Economics Firm of the Year” by Who’s Who Legal in each of the nine years since the award was launched; and Global Competition Review (GCR) has ranked Compass Lexecon as “Elite” and one of the world’s leading economic consultancies in each of the last 18 years since the rankings began. GCR noted that Compass Lexecon “continues to set the standard for competition economics consultancies” and boasts “the world’s largest dedicated team of antitrust economists”. GCR also noted “With 67 nominees in Who’s Who Legal: Competition, the firm stands out in both size and quality”.

Compass Lexecon economists were recognized by Global Competition Review for their work in the following winning matters in the GCR Team Awards 2024:

• Matter of the Year: Microsoft/Activision
• Merger control matter of the year – APMEA: VMware/Broadcom
• Merger control matter of the year – Americas: Microsoft/Activision
• Litigation of the year – Non-cartel defence: Jones v PGA Tour
• Behavioural matter of the year – Americas: US v Google

Kirsten Edwards-Warren was named GCR’s Economist of the Year in 2024 and Mark Israel was named GCR’s Economist of the Year in 2023.

Work highlights

Compass Lexecon advises on numerous high-profile merger-related matters around the world. Some top mergers that Compass Lexecon advised on include: the €18.6 billion transaction between telecommunications providers Orange and MásMóvil in the Spanish market; Pfizer’s $43 billion acquisition of Seagen in the biopharma industry; Microsoft's proposed $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard in the tech sector; hardware company Broadcom’s $69 billion acquisition of cloud computing and virtualisation software company VMware; the $27.8 billion acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics by biotechnology firm Amgen; and the $1.8 billion acquisition of Thales GTS by Hitachi in the railway signalling sector.

Compass Lexecon also works on hundreds of antitrust litigation matters. These matters largely focus on monopolization and collusion claims across multiple industries ranging from healthcare to transportation, from technology to media and entertainment, and from credit services to the food and beverage industry. Some recent highlights include the settlement between ATM operator Euronet Worldwide and payment card companies Visa and Mastercard in a five-year-long litigation in the UK regarding cash-withdrawal charging rules; a landmark decision by the Supreme People’s Court of China following a three-year appellate review of an abuse of market dominance allegation brought by Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group against HIPI Pharma Tech; and a shareholder derivative litigation against Oracle.