Portrait of Javier Vargas González

Javier Vargas González Senior Consultant

Javier is a Senior Consultant at Oxera, with extensive experience in the quantification of damages across a wide range of economic and commercial disputes. He frequently collaborates with both the Competition team on antitrust litigation matters and the Commercial Litigation and Arbitration team, providing economic analysis and expert support in complex legal contexts. He has advised clients across a variety of markets, and brings particular sectoral experience in transport, retail, and infrastructure.

He has also advised various public bodies, regulators and competition authorities at both national and regional levels, applying quantitative and qualitative techniques to assess the impact of regulation in the most relevant sectors of the Spanish economy. Javier has also participated in several intellectual property cases, assisting collecting societies in determining royalties and license fees for the use of intellectual property rights.

Prior to joining the firm, Javier worked for six years at an international economic consultancy and for five years at a leading Spanish law firm, where he served as an in-house economist.

Javier speaks English, and Spanish.

Tel: +34 91 019 3570

Javier's specialisms include:

Selected
professional experience

  • Advice to a paper and board manufacturer on potential stand-alone damages claims from Spanish retailers (2024–)

  • Assistance to several manufacturers of low- and medium-voltage cables in their economic defence against claims for damages from electricity distributors arising from the LV/MV Cables case (2022–)

  • Advice to several car manufacturers in their defence against damages claims brought by Spanish consumers arising from the Car Manufacturers case (2020–)

  • Advice to several companies in the industrial and technological sector in the rebuttal of the CNMC’s decision in the Railway Safety and Communications case before the High Court for alleged bid-rigging in public tenders (2022–24)

  • Advice to the Spanish Intellectual Property Commission as independent expert in the framework of an arbitration procedure between collecting societies and media groups (2023)

  • Advice to a national steel company in the context of the CNMC’s investigation into alleged price-fixing practices in the market for the sale of scrap metal. Subsequent advice on the rebuttal of the CNMC’s  decision in the Scrap and Steel case before the High Court (2021–23)

Qualifications

  • Specialization Program European and Spanish Competition Law, IEB, Spain

  • MSc Financial Markets and Institutions, Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros (CUNEF), Spain

  • BSc Economics, University of Zaragoza, Spain

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