Catalina Campillo

Catalina Campillo is a Vice President at Compass Lexecon based in Brussels.

Catalina’s work focuses on the application of economic analysis and econometric techniques to competition policy cases, including the assessment of the competitive effects of mergers, abuse of dominance, market definition and the impact of cartels. She also has experience on several cases involving damage estimation. Her experience covers a wide range of industries including financial markets, automotive industry, railway industry, package delivery, car rental services, electrical equipment, hardware and software, tobacco, beverages, fast moving consumer goods, hearing devices, chemical products, electronic components and beauty products.

Catalina is working on the estimation of cartel damages following the heavy truck manufacturers infringement, for which litigation proceedings are taking place in various European countries. In the context of these proceedings, she assisted with the submission of expert reports and she testified before Spanish Courts.

In the recent past, Catalina also contributed to Compass Lexecon’s work in the Alstom/Bombardier Transport merger with proceedings before the European Commission and other competition authorities worldwide. For this merger in the railway sector, she helped with extensive filing support, the assessment of horizontal, vertical and conglomerate effects including bidding analyses and analysis of potential foreclosure, as well as the design of an appropriate remedy package. Other cases Catalina worked on in recent years are Siemens/Alstom, Widex/Sivantos, NKT/ABB, HP/Samsung (printer business), Ball/Rexam, Siemens/Dresser-Rand, UPS/TNT and NYSE/Deutsche Bourse before the European Commission, Coca Cola/AdeS with merger filings in various Latin American countries and Tsogo Sun/Sun International before the Competition Tribunal of South Africa.

Before joining Compass Lexecon, Catalina worked for the Global Competition Policy Practice at LECG. Catalina has also worked as an Associate Lecturer at Instituto de Empresa Business School, Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles and College of Europe.

Since 2023, Catalina is listed as a Future Leader in Competition Economics by Who’s Who Legal.

Catalina holds the title of M.A. in Economics and Finance by Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) and a B.A. with honors in Economics by Universidad Complutense de Madrid. During her studies in CEMFI, she specialized in econometrics and quantitative methods.