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Felipe Flórez Duncan : Partner

Felipe leads economic analysis across competition policy, litigation, and regulation, with over 20 years of experience in these fields. 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, with his expertise spanning abuse of dominance cases, vertical agreements, mergers, and damages quantification in litigation, arbitration, and commercial disputes. He also advises 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. He also has experience in the financial services, digital markets, sports, agriculture, and postal and logistics sectors.

In addition to his career as an economic expert, Felipe worked as a Senior Economist at BT Group (2010–12) and earlier held various roles in strategy, regulation, and finance at the incumbent telecoms operator in Perú, Telefónica del Peru.

Felipe speaks English, and Spanish.

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7776 6654

Felipe's specialisms include:

Selected
professional experience

  • Acted as economic expert in an ICSID investor–state dispute regarding the termination of a concession contract to design, build, and operate a national fibre optic network in a Latin American country (2026)

  • Advised a major cable operator in Chile regarding potential damages claims and contract renewal discussions with a provider of premium sports content (2025)

  • Assisted a major mobile operator in Chile to prepare expert economic evidence in support of an update to Chile’s spectrum cap limits (2025)

  • Economic expert quantifying damages on behalf of claimants in the raw cow’s milk buyers cartel in Spain and testifying in the Commercial Court of Barcelona (2025)

  • Led Oxera’s work for Vivacom during the review of the wholesale broadband access market by the telecoms regulator in Bulgaria (2025)

  • Led Oxera’s work on behalf of a consortium of UK mobile operators during Ofcom’s market review of the application-to-person (A2P) SMS termination market (2025)

Selected
publications

  • Flórez Duncan, F. and Weekes, M. (2020), ‘Incentivising Investment’, InterMedia, 48:1, pp. 32–36, International Institute of Communications, April.

  • 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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