Paolo Ramezzana

Paolo Ramezzana is a Senior Vice President in Compass Lexecon’s Milan office.

Paolo has 20 years of experience applying economic analysis to competition matters in consulting, government and academia in Europe and the United States. He specializes in applying economic theory, modelling and quantitative analysis to horizontal and vertical merger reviews and unilateral conduct cases. He has developed significant expertise in the telecommunication, media, digital, healthcare, pharmaceutical, high-tech and agricultural sectors. Examples of merger cases to which he made significant contributions as a consultant include Tempur-Sealy/Mattress Firm, Bunge/Viterra, Philip Morris/Swedish Match, AT&T/T-Mobile (attempted), AT&T/MetroPCS, AT&T/Direct TV, Comcast/Time Warner Cable (attempted) and Google/Yahoo! (attempted advertising collaboration in 2009). Examples of unilateral conduct cases include AMD v. Intel, ZF Meritor v. Eaton, American Airlines v. Sabre and Orbital Sciences v. ULA.

Between 2015 and 2021, Paolo worked as an Economist and then advisor to the Director of the Bureau of Economics at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. At the FTC, he provided economic analysis and high-level briefings on a variety of cases, including the Mylan/Pfizer generic pharmaceutical merger and the agency’s investigation of Qualcomm’s licensing practices.

Paolo has a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics. He has been an assistant professor at the University of Virginia and published in the European Economic Review and the Journal of Industrial Economics. He remains active in economic research and in the competition policy discourse by writing research papers for publication in peer-reviewed journals and presenting in academic and policy conferences worldwide.