Elina Koustoumpardi

Senior Consultant
Elina Koustoumpardi Antitrust Competition Charles River Associates

Elina Koustoumpardi is a senior consultant in the European Competition Practice. She has more than 15 years of experience in the application of economic theory and empirical techniques to competition law cases.

Her work includes advising clients in:

  • Complex merger investigations before the European Commission, the UK Competition and Markets Authority, and other jurisdictions. She has advised on merger cases including Novo Holdings/Catalent, Microsoft/Activision, CVC/Ethniki, LSE/Refinitiv, Nexi/SIA, Novelis/Aleris, among others.
  • Abuse of dominance and anticompetitive agreements investigations and appeals before the courts. Her recent experience includes cases involving excessive pricing, disparagement as well as pay for delay in pharma, exclusionary abuses in beer, chipsets, packaging materials, and other sectors.
  • Litigation, involving the estimation of damages arising from anticompetitive agreements and abuse of dominance cases.

She has worked on cases in a range of industry sectors with significant expertise in the pharmaceutical sector.

Selected engagements

  • 01
    CAT approves class action settlement agreement in maritime cartel
    A CRA team, including Raphaël De Coninck, Elina Koustoumpardi, Oliver Wichert, Dominik Fischer, Francesca Garbin, Isabella Pandelli and Lorenzo Comito advised...
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  • 02
    EC unconditionally approves $16.5bn acquisition of Catalent by Novo Holdings
    By providing additional fill-finish capacity, the transaction would enable Novo Nordisk to reach more obesity and diabetes patients faster. The Commission...
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  • 03
    European Commission fines Teva €462.6 million for antitrust abuse
    The Commission found that Teva had abused its dominant position by engaging in two types of conduct. First, it misused the patent system to artificially...
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