Chara Tzanetaki

Principal
Chara-Tzanetaki - European Antitrust Competition - Charles-River-Associates

Chara Tzanetaki is a principal at CRA’s European Competition Practice in London.

Chara is a microeconomist, with an expertise in industrial economic theory, game theory and the economics of networks.

Since joining CRA, she has worked on antitrust matters before the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the European Commission and other national competition authorities. She has advised clients on mergers, litigation, and abuse of dominance cases in sectors including payments, technology and private healthcare.

Prior to joining CRA, Chara completed a PhD in economics at the University of Warwick where she was an ESRC research scholar and a Teaching Fellow. Chara also holds an MPhil in Economic Research from the University of Cambridge. She is fluent in Greek and English with a working knowledge of French.

Chara-Tzanetaki - European Antitrust Competition - Charles-River-Associates

Selected engagements

  • 01
    CRA responds to the European Commission’s draft Article 102 Guidelines
    The draft guidelines aimed to reflect recent EU courts’ case law on exclusionary abuses, in turn helping to provide greater legal certainty for all relevant...
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  • 02
    EC unconditionally clears CVC’s acquisition of Ethniki
    On 23 February 2022, the European Commission unconditionally cleared the acquisition of Ethniki Hellenic General Insurance Company S.A. (‘Ethniki’) of Greece...
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  • 03
    CMA clearance of Visa’s acquisition of Plaid in the UK
    The CMA was concerned that, absent the Transaction, Visa and Plaid would have become increasingly close competitors for consumer to business payments as...
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