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Dr Luigi Stammati Senior Consultant

Luigi provides economic advice in litigation and international arbitration, with a focus on the quantification of damages. His work primarily involves complex antitrust and commercial disputes before national courts in Italy, Spain, and the UK, as well as in international arbitration proceedings.

He has advised on matters spanning a wide range of sectors, including agriculture, packaging, public procurement, financial services, construction, telecoms, airline fuel supply, and pharmaceuticals. Luigi also has experience supporting competition investigations—particularly in the financial sector—and providing regulatory advice in telecoms and financial services.

He has contributed to cases across multiple jurisdictions, including the UK, Italy, Spain, and several Latin American countries. Prior to joining Oxera in November 2018, Luigi gained experience at Frontier Economics in Madrid.

Luigi speaks English, Italian, and Spanish.

Tel: +39 06 90258092

Luigi's specialisms include:

Selected
professional experience

  • Economic advice and quantification of damages in multiple damages proceedings in the corrugated cardboard industry in Italy and other European countries (2023–)

  • Quantification of damages on behalf of a global manufacturer of active pharmaceutical ingredients in an ICC-administered arbitration against a global pharmaceutical company, following a supply disruption (2023–)

  • Economic advice in damages proceedings in the recycling industry in Italy (2025–)

  • Economic advice and quantification of damages in Spain in connection with the milk buyers’ cartel (2020–)

  • Economic advice and quantification of damages in Spain in a dispute with a regional government concerning the denial of expansion in the farming sector (2020–25)

  • Economic advice to Eni in its defence across several court cases relating to airport refuelling surcharges (2020–25)

Selected
publications

  • Veronese, B., Alimonti, R. and Stammati, L. (2023), ‘La Quantificazione dell’Accesso’, in G. Cassano, C.E. Cazzato, F. Di Ciommo (eds), Trattato delle garanzie nelle comunicazioni, ‘Data Valuation E Regolazione Dei Settori Digitali”, Chapter 42, Part 6.

  • Alimonti, R., Ippolito, F. and Stammati, L. (2022), ‘A Method to Assess the Impact of the Universal Postal Service Obligation’, Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, in P.L. Parcu, T.J. Brennan and V. Glass (eds), The Economics of the Postal and Delivery Sector, Springer.

  • Macchiati, A., Negro, S., Onado, M. and Stammati, L. (2021), ‘Banche italiane, l’eredità della crisi finanziaria globale e della pandemia Covid-19: finora tutto bene’, Bancaria n° 10, October.

  • Alimonti, R., Mautino, L. and Stammati, L. (2020), ‘E-Commerce Growth: Competition and Regulatory Implications for the Postal Sector,’ in P.L.  Parcu, T.J. Brenna and V. Glass (2020), The Changing Postal Environment – Market and Policy Innovation, Springer.

  • Rodriguez Ovejero, J.M., Stammati, L. and Torres Figueroa, M.P. (2019), ‘The impact of piracy on the structure of the Pay TV market: a case study for Latin America,’ Journal of Media Business Studies, 16:1, pp. 40–57.

  • Ovington, T., Smith, R., Santamaria, J. and Stammati, L. (2017), ‘The impact of intra-platform competition on broadband penetration’, Telecommunications Policy, 41:3, pp. 185–196.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Economics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

  • Master’s Degree in Specialised Economic Analysis – Economics of Public Policy, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Spain

  • MA in Political Science, LUISS University, Rome, Italy

  • BA in Philosophy, University ‘La Sapienza’, Rome, Italy

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