RBB Economics

Name

RBB Economics

Legal name

RBB Economics

Website

https://rbbecon.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices17 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Competition Economics Consulting: RBB provides independent expert economic advice on competition policy cases. Revenue is generated through professional consulting fees for advising on mergers, antitrust investigations, litigation, and regulatory matters before competition authorities worldwide.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

RBB Economics is a specialist competition economics consultancy that provides independent expert economic advice on mergers and acquisitions, antitrust investigations, abuse of dominance inquiries, cartel and horizontal agreement matters, litigation and damages, state aid and foreign subsidies, vertical agreements, and sector enquiries. The firm prepares written economic reports, delivers oral presentations to competition authorities, and provides expert witness testimony before courts across 120+ jurisdictions worldwide.

Product overview

RBB Economics is a professional economics consultancy firm specializing in competition law matters. The firm does not offer a software product or technology platform. Instead, it provides expert economic advisory services including merger assessments, antitrust investigations, abuse of dominance analysis, cartel investigations, litigation support, and regulatory advice across various jurisdictions. The firm's 'products' are its consulting service offerings in areas such as Cartels and Horizontal Agreements, Dominance and Monopoly Inquiries, Litigation and Damages, Mergers & Acquisitions, Regulatory Issues, Sector Enquiries, State Aid and Foreign Subsidies, and Vertical Agreements.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Cartels and Horizontal Agreements Expert economic analysis and advice on cartel investigations and horizontal agreements between competitors, including economic submissions to competition authorities and litigation support for clients in cartel matters.
• Dominance and Monopoly Inquiries Economic advice on Article 102 / abuse of dominance investigations and monopoly inquiries, including analysis of market definition, market power, exclusionary conduct, and remedies for corporate defendants before competition authorities.
• Litigation and Damages Economic expert witness support for competition litigation, including quantification of damages in follow-on and standalone competition cases, expert report drafting, and oral testimony in court proceedings.
• Mergers & Acquisitions Economic analysis for merger control proceedings, including Phase I and Phase II merger assessments, horizontal and non-horizontal effects analysis, efficiencies evaluation, remedies design, and economic submissions to competition authorities such as the European Commission, CMA, and national regulators.
• Regulatory Issues Economic advice on regulatory matters beyond merger control and antitrust enforcement, including sector-specific regulatory interventions, regulated pricing, and competition-related regulatory submissions.
• Sector Enquiries Economic analysis for sector inquiries and market studies conducted by competition authorities, including assessment of market structure, competitive dynamics, and policy recommendations for regulators across multiple industries.
• State Aid and Foreign Subsidies Economic advice on State Aid and foreign subsidies regulatory proceedings, including analysis of public interventions, market distortions, and remediation strategies before competition authorities.
• Vertical Agreements Economic analysis on vertical restraints and agreements between firms at different levels of the supply chain, including assessment of distribution arrangements, exclusivity provisions, and resale price maintenance matters.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 40% of EU Phase II mergers in the last 5 years
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers16 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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Core technology

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• COMPASS (Competition Policy Associates)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 31 January 2005RBB announced affiliation with COMPASS (Competition Policy Associates) on 31 January 2005. The alliance involves cross-marketing of services between RBB Economics and COMPASS in the US and EU markets. Both entities remain independent while collaborating to offer clients more harmonized economic analysis across jurisdictions.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves13 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Copenhagen Economics: Nordic-headquartered economics consultancy with a competition practice serving clients on merger reviews and abuse-of-dominance cases. Smaller than RBB but competes directly on Nordic and EU-wide matters and has growing capability in digital markets.
• Charles River Associates (CRA): Global consulting firm with a large competition economics practice that competes for the same merger and antitrust mandates. CRA's broader portfolio (including life sciences and energy) gives it multi-disciplinary capabilities RBB lacks, but its economics bench competes head-to-head in competition matters.
• The Brattle Group: Economics consultancy with a strong competition and litigation economics practice that serves similar corporate and law firm clients on merger reviews, damages estimation, and antitrust testimony. Comparable specialist positioning with overlapping client base in EU and US matters.
• Frontier Economics: European-headquartered economics consultancy with deep competition and regulation practices serving corporate clients, regulators, and law firms. Highly comparable in geographic footprint (UK/Germany-led) and service offering, particularly in merger and sector inquiry work.
• Analysis Group: Major economics and financial consulting firm with a sizeable competition practice advising on mergers, antitrust litigation, and regulatory matters. Serves many of the same blue-chip corporates and law firms as RBB across US and European jurisdictions.
• Compass Lexecon: The largest direct competitor in competition economics consulting. Compass Lexecon offers nearly identical expert economic testimony and merger advisory services, has comparable geographic reach, and has historically poached senior talent to and from RBB (e.g., Sergey Khodjamirian moved from Compass Lexecon to RBB).
• E.CA Economics: Berlin-based competition economics consultancy spun out of the German Monopolies Commission, advising on EU and German merger and antitrust cases. Directly competes with RBB's Dusseldorf and Berlin offices on German and EU matters.
• Oxera: Economics consultancy with a strong competition economics practice advising on merger cases, antitrust investigations, and regulatory disputes. Comparable in size, European orientation, and client base of corporates, regulators, and law firms.

Broad incumbents

• NERA Economic Consulting: Global economic consultancy with a significant competition and antitrust economics practice, now part of a larger professional services platform. Competes for merger and litigation economics mandates and has deeper resources through its parent organization.

Emerging players

• L.E.K. Consulting: Global strategy consultancy with growing capability in antitrust and regulatory economics. While primarily a strategy firm, L.E.K. increasingly competes for economic analysis roles in competition matters, particularly in Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/rbb-economics

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles17 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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