Professors of BSC

Joan is a Partner at RBB Economics and is based in Brussels. He has extensive experience in the economic assessment of mergers, having advised on numerous Phase II investigations before the European Commission, raising horizontal, vertical and conglomerate concerns. Joan also advises regularly on multi-jurisdictional mergers involving multiple competition authorities around the world, and has given expert testimony before national and arbitration courts on competition issues and other commercial disputes. He also works regularly on the economic analysis of abuse of dominance cases, horizontal agreements, and damages.

Joan’s experience spans a wide range of sectors. Clients that Joan has worked for include EssilorLuxottica, Alstom, FedEx, Liberty Media, Veolia, Cargill, Halliburton, Sony, Oracle, Hertz, Siemens, Samsung, and Unilever, among many others.

Joan has published in specialised journals regarding the economic assessment of mergers and damages, and speaks frequently about competition economics in conferences and seminars. He was named in the “40 under 40” selection of Global Competition Review, which recognises the next generation of leading antitrust practitioners, and is featured in Who’s Who Legal since 2017 (first as a “future leader” and later as a “recommended expert”). He studied economics at the Barcelona School of Economics, UAB in Barcelona, and UvA in Amsterdam.