Portrait of Tamrat Shone

Tamrat Shone Principal

Tamrat specialises in competition economics, with broad expertise spanning mergers, antitrust investigations, and competition litigation.

He has advised clients in complex merger control cases and antitrust investigations before the CMA and European Commission, drawing on experience across sectors including aviation, banking and financial services, construction, consumer appliances and electronics, digital platforms, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and transport and logistics.

Tamrat also has significant expertise in competition litigation, including standalone and follow-on damages cases, as well as collective actions. He has assisted in the preparation of expert testimonies presented to the Competition Appeal Tribunal, England and Wales High Court, ICC, LCIA, Canadian Competition Tribunal, and Hong Kong Competition Tribunal.

Tamrat is recognised as a Future Leader in Competition Economics by the Lexology Index.

Tamrat speaks English, and French.

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7776 6697

Tamrat's specialisms include:

Selected
professional experience

  • Economic advice to Prosus during the European Commission’s Phase I review of its acquisition of Just Eat Takeaway (2025)

  • Advice to a European truck manufacturer in the context of multiple damages claims following a finding of an Article 101 infringement by the European Commission (2023–)

  • Advising a major British bank in its defence of collective proceedings concerning its motor finance agreements with car dealers (2023–)

  • Assisted Whirlpool and Arçelik in gaining unconditional merger clearance from the European Commission (at Phase 1) and the Competition and Markets Authority (at Phase 2) (2022–24)

  • Assisted in the preparation of expert evidence on behalf of Comparethemarket, in its successful appeal of a Decision by the Competition and Markets Authority concerning most favoured nation clauses (2021–22)

  • Merger advice to Transport Canada, Canada’s transport regulator, in relation to Air Canada’s proposed acquisition of Transat A.T. Inc. (2020–21)

Qualifications

  • MSc Economics, London School of Economics, UK

  • BSc Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Warwick, UK

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