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Andrea Prina Consultant

Andrea is a Consultant in Oxera’s Competition and Digital teams, based in Brussels. He has worked on a range of matters, including mergers, antitrust investigations and antitrust damages claims.

He has particular expertise in the digital sector, advising clients in the UK and across Europe on regulatory risk assessments and abuse of dominance investigations. He also has experience in the Italian market, advising on antitrust investigations, private litigation and mergers.

Andrea holds an MSc in Economics and Social Science from Bocconi University, where he specialised in economic theory and econometrics. He also worked there as a research assistant, focusing on the microstructure of financial markets and mechanism design.

Andrea speaks English, and Italian.

Tel: +44 1865 253222

Andrea's specialisms include:

Selected
professional experience

  • Provided strategic economic advice to a large digital company regarding a regulatory assessment on a subscription-based product (2025)

  • Advised a technology firm on the proportionality and necessity of a proposed GDPR fine (2025)

  • Advised Sammontana and Investindustrial in the context of the acquisition of Forno d’Asolo, cleared by the ICA with commitments (2024)

  • Advising Google in a collective claim for damages arising from an alleged antitrust infringement relating to excessive pricing in the Play Store in the UK before the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) (2023–)

  • Quantitative assessment of damages and economic support to a leading provider of cardboard packaging in the context of an Article 101 TFEU breach in the Italian cardboard sector (2023–)

  • Provided economic advice to ExxonMobil in the sale of Esso to Italiana Petroli before the ICA (2023)

Qualifications

  • MSc Economics and Social Science, Bocconi University, Italy

  • BSc Economics and Finance, Bocconi University, Italy

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