Portrait of Tamrat Shone

Tamrat Shone Managing Consultant

Tamrat is a member of Oxera’s Competition and Litigation Support teams. He has particular expertise in competition-related disputes, having advised firms and competition authorities in cases relating to damages, horizontal and vertical agreements, abuse of dominance, and state aid. Tamrat has extensive experience working across a variety of industries including energy, financial services, digital, consumer appliances and electronics, manufacturing, transport, and retail. An experienced consultant, Tamrat has assisted in the preparation of expert testimonies presented to the Competition Appeal Tribunal, England and Wales High Court, ICC, LCIA, Canadian Competition Tribunal, and Hong Kong Competition Tribunal.

Before joining Oxera, Tamrat completed an MSc in Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He also has experience in banking, having previously worked at Macquarie as an analyst in its Investment Banking Division.

Tamrat speaks English, and French.

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7776 6697

Tamrat's specialisms include:

Selected
professional experience

  • Advice to a European truck manufacturer in the context of multiple damages claims following a finding of an Article 101 infringement by the European Commission (2023–)

  • Advising a major British bank in its defence of collective proceedings concerning its motor finance agreements with car dealers (2023–)

  • 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) (2022–24)

  • Assisted in the preparation of expert evidence on behalf of Comparethemarket, in its successful appeal of a Decision by the Competition and Markets Authority concerning most favoured nation clauses (2021–22)

  • Merger advice to Transport Canada, Canada’s transport regulator, in relation to Air Canada’s proposed acquisition of Transat A.T. Inc. (2020–21)

  • Advising a global financial institution in the context of claims in the Competition Appeal Tribunal arising out of alleged FX manipulation (2019–)

Qualifications

  • MSc Economics, London School of Economics, UK

  • BSc Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Warwick, UK


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