Portrait of Quirijn Tanghe

Quirijn Tanghe : Consultant

Quirijn is a member of Oxera’s Finance & Valuation team and is based in Oxera’s Paris office. He specialises in financial economics and corporate finance in relation to utility regulation, state aid cases, and IP litigation cases. He has performed profitability assessments, cost of capital estimations, business plan analyses—all three also in the context of MEOP assesments—damages estimations, IP-FRAND assessments, and has experience in the benchmarking of financial instruments.

Prior to joining Oxera, Quirijn obtained a double Master’s degree in International Economic Policy, and Economics, from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and Universiteit Gent respectively. During his studies, he completed internships in equity research and private equity, where he was able to sharpen his analytical skills and acquire insights from an investor’s perspective.

Quirijn speaks Dutch, French, English, and German.

Tel: +33 (0) 1 80 20 91 86

Quirijn's specialisms include:

Selected
professional experience

  • Cost allocation and profitability analysis for a multinational digital services company in the context of a class action on excessive pricing (2024–)

  • Advice to a collective rights management organisation on the appropriate allocation of costs and the relevant price-cost test in the context of a predatory pricing and discrimination allegation (2024–)

  • IP-FRAND assessment of a mobile cellular technology licence for a multinational telecoms company involved in a licence dispute (2025–26)

  • Advice to a client that launched a class action against a supplier of technological components accused of abuse of dominance (2023–26)

  • State aid compatibility assessment of a concession agreement between a consortium and a railway network operator (2025)

  • Estimation of the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) of a mid-sized life sciences company for the purpose of quantifying damages allegedly arising from a competitor’s exclusionary practices (2025)

Qualifications

  • MSc International Economic Policy, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany

  • MSc Economics (major: Financial Institutions and Markets), Universiteit Gent, Belgium

  • BSc Economics, Universiteit Gent, Belgium