Portrait of Andreea Antuca

Andreea Antuca Senior Consultant

Andreea is a Consultant in Oxera’s Digital practice and a member of the Competition team. She has experience in merger reviews, litigation, market investigations, data valuation and public policy assessments. She advised a range of clients including goods manufacturers, consumer organisations, telecoms firms and digital platforms.

In 2022, Andreea completed a six months secondment at the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), where she worked on the Mobile Ecosystem Market Study and an antitrust investigation relating to a large online platform. She won the International Institute of Communications 2021 Future Leaders Competition with her entry ‘How to achieve a delicate balance – principles for regulating internet intermediaries’.

Before joining Oxera in 2017, Andreea completed an MPhil in Economics at the University of Oxford focusing on industrial organisation and econometrics. She also worked as a research assistant on projects ranging from impact evaluation, labour markets and immigration to developing differential privacy algorithms for open data.

Andreea speaks English, and Romanian.

Tel: +44 (0) 1865 253205

Andreea's specialisms include:

Selected
professional experience

  • Provided economic advice to a UK organsiation acting as a defendant in a class action (2024–)

  • Advised on data products and strategy for a financial services firm (2024)

  • Assisted Whirlpool and Arçelik in gaining unconditional merger clearance from the European Commission (at Phase 1) and the Competition and Markets Authority (at Phase 2) (2023–24)

  • Assisted in the prepation of an economic expert report for a telecoms firm in a dispute under the rules of ICSID (2023)

  • Provided economic advice on the consumer duty to a UK insurance company (2023)

  • Provided economic advice to a sports organsiation in an alleged abuse of dominance case (2022)

Selected
publications

  • Antuca A., Niels G. and Ralston-Smith R. (2023), ‘Compare the Markets: Two-Sided Market Definition in the Comparethemarket Case’, CPI Antitrust Chronicle, January.

  • Antuca, A. and Noble, R. (2021), ‘Data: how it affects competitive dynamics, how to value it, and whether to provide third-party access to it’, Competition Law Journal, 20:2, pp. 102–10.

Qualifications

  • MPhil Economics, University of Oxford, UK

  • MA Economics and Politics, University of Essex, UK


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