Portrait of Felipe Flórez Duncan

Felipe Flórez Duncan : Partner

Felipe is a seasoned economist with over 20 years’ experience in competition policy, litigation and regulation. He co-heads Oxera’s global Digital, Telecoms, Media, and Technology (DTMT) practice and holds a senior leadership position in Oxera’s Madrid office.

He has provided expert witness testimony in high-profile cases before UK, Spanish and other European courts. His broad expertise spans abuse of dominance cases, vertical agreements, mergers, damages quantification in litigation, international arbitration and commercial disputes, as well as advising corporates and government agencies on regulatory policy and strategy.

Felipe is a recognised expert in the telecoms sector, where he has advised on wholesale and retail market reviews, margin squeeze assessments, wholesale fibre access pricing, commercial disputes and international arbitrations. In the media sector, his work includes economic analysis of joint selling agreements, passive sale restrictions, copyright licensing, and horizontal and vertical mergers involving platforms, networks, and content. Felipe also has experience in the financial services, digital markets, sports, agriculture and postal and logistics sectors.

His clients include leading operators such as BT Group, Openreach, and Virgin Media O2 in the UK, Open Fiber in Italy, and the pan-European operator United Group. He also works with regulatory authorities, such as ComReg in Ireland, supporting the design and implementation of regulatory frameworks that promote competition and investment.

In addition to his long-standing career as an economic expert, Felipe has also worked as a Senior Economist at BT Group. He has also held various roles in strategy, regulation and finance at the incumbent telecoms operator in Peru, Telefónica del Perú.

Felipe speaks English, and Spanish.

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7776 6654

Felipe's specialisms include:

Selected
professional experience

  • Led Oxera’s work for BT Group on a £1.3bn collective actions claim regarding line rental prices for stand-alone fixed voice customers (2024)

  • Economic expert quantifying damages on behalf of claimants in the raw cow’s milk buyers cartel in Spain (2022-)

  • Economic expert for a Spanish dairy firm quantifying damages in a dispute with a regional government in Spain (2022-)

  • Led Oxera’s team assisting ComReg in developing the regulatory framework for wholesale fibre access services in Ireland (2024)

  • Economic expert for the claimant in an international arbitration dispute regarding discriminatory treatment of an acquisition in the telecoms sector of an Eastern European country (2024)

  • Expert testimony for a sports tour organiser in Spain in a contractual dispute over exclusivity agreements between sports organisations and players (2023)

Selected
publications

  • Flórez Duncan, F., Longman, D., Mautino, L. and Dudley, P. (2011), ‘Price Discrimination and Price Differentiation within Direct Mail’, chapter 17, in M. Crew and P. Kleindorfer (eds), Reinventing the Postal Sector in an Electronic Age, Edward Elgar.

  • Flórez Duncan, F. (2010), ‘No Margin for Error: The Challenges of Assessing Margin Squeeze in Practice’, Competition Law Journal, 1.

  • Barnes, F., Flórez Duncan, F. and Niels, G. (2006), ‘Voice over Broadband: To Regulate or not to Regulate?’, Competition Law Insight, March.

Qualifications

  • MPA Public and Economic Policy, London School of Economics

  • BSc Economics, Universidad del Pacífico, Peru

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