Our services
At ALP Economics, we provide senior-led economic analysis across litigation, arbitration, digital markets, and public policy. Our work is grounded in rigorous methods and hands-on experience, tailored to meet the demands of high-stakes legal and regulatory environments.
Litigation and Arbitration Support
We provide rigorous economic analysis and expert testimony in high-stakes disputes. Our experience spans a wide range of financial and competition-related matters:
Damages Quantification: We provide expert analysis in cartel follow-on actions, antitrust disputes, securities cases, and commercial litigation.
Valuation Analysis: We conduct comprehensive assessments for business interruption claims, loss of profits, or contested acquisitions.
Economic Analysis in Competition Policy Disputes: We provide detailed evaluation covering market definition, theories of harm, competitive dynamics, and counterfactual scenarios, notably in technology and innovative markets.
Expert Reports: We prepare expert and rebuttal reports that are clear, robust, and designed to withstand scrutiny in court and arbitration proceedings.
Witness and Advisory Support: We act as expert witnesses before European and international courts and tribunals.
We understand that clarity, credibility, and responsiveness are paramount in dispute contexts. Our senior economists engage directly with legal teams, integrating economic evidence into broader litigation strategies and adapting rapidly to the evolving dynamics of the matter they handle.
Platform Economics and Digital Policy
ALP Economics leverages hands-on digital market expertise and rigorous academic insights to advise companies and regulators on technology markets and complex platform business dynamics. Our services include:
Comprehensive analysis of platform business models and competition dynamics in the digital space.
Assessment of business conduct, innovation incentives, and pricing dynamics in the digital space.
Expert support for regulatory investigations, regulatory compliance, and competition disputes involving tech companies and digital platforms.
Forward-looking policy advice on regulations such as the Digital Markets Act as well as reforms targeting platform competition and innovation policies.
Leveraging our hands-on experience in digital markets, senior roles in tech companies and competition agencies, as well as academic collaborations, we are uniquely positioned to help both industry players and policymakers navigate today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape.
Economic Policy Consulting
ALP Economics offers high-impact economic analysis tailored for companies, trade associations, or regulatory bodies dealing with competition, innovation, and regulatory issues. Our services include:
Design and Evaluation of Policies: We perform economic impact analysis of actual or proposed market regulation. This includes evaluating how such measures influence market dynamics and innovation incentives.
Strategic Studies: We analyse the evolution of markets and dynamic trade-offs of policies, notably in innovation or technology markets.
Public Consultation and Policy White Papers: We develop evidence-based recommendations to shape better policy outcomes. Our submissions are designed to credibly inform regulators, leading to impact.
We deliver each service area with the same commitment: deep technical rigor, tailored solutions, senior involvement, and a relentless focus on client outcomes.
We have supported legal teams, corporate clients, and policymakers in a wide range of sensitive and high-stakes economic matters across Europe. Below is a selection of the work our team has performed
Securities litigation (Netherlands): provided economic support in multiple Dutch securities litigation cases involving allegations of investor misinformation. Developed inflation-based damages methodologies aligned with Dutch legal standards for collective redress and settlement.
Financial arbitration (private equity): assessed valuation issues and projected earnings in arbitrations conducted under leading institutional rules such as CEPANI and DIS. Delivered independent expert analysis on alleged wrongful act, causal link and damages, resulting in causality being significantly challenged by tribunals.
Platform foreclosure analysis in the context of litigation (mobility sector): provided economic advice to a mobility service operator in relation to claims of alleged foreclosure.
Cartel damages litigation support: contributed to the economic analysis of damages and pass-on issues in several major cartel follow-on actions, including proceedings related to the Trucks cartel and the Plant Protection Products cartel. Prepared expert input on overcharge estimation, pass-on analysis, and critique of opposing models. Described detailed theories of harm estimations that supported strong trial positions.
Abuse of dominance analysis (platform sector): provided economic analysis in a standalone abuse of dominance case involving an IT-based intermediation platform. Focused on market definition, exclusionary conduct, and competitive effects.
Platform and digital regulation
Assessment of early enforcement scenarios under the EU Digital Markets Act for a global digital platform. Provided written input on economic implications of proposed obligations.
Market study for strategic regulatory engagement: Led the economic section of a confidential report addressing the competitive structure of digital mobility platforms in the EU.
Policy Consulting and Market Design
Economic impact assessment of sector specific policies for an online delivery service.
Public consultation submission relating to evidence-based policies regarding data access, contestability, and fairness in emerging regulatory regimes.